Written by Kayla Stroud, Web Editor It has been a little over a year since the newly-minted solo artist Malik dumped his One Direction bandmates mid tour. Malik cited the reason for leaving the band after his five-year stint was that he wanted to be a normal 22-year-old. Now, millions of crying fans, multiple Twitter beefs and an RCA recording ...

Written by Kayla Stroud, SpecTech Editor Texting and driving has been illegal for years, but now texting and walking might also book you a two week stint in a jail cell. A New Jersey lawmaker introduced a bill that, if passed, would make it illegal to walk the streets with a cell phone glued to your face. According to CBS2, ...

Written by Kayla Stroud, SpecTech Editor The average pimple-faced teenage delivery boy that we’ve all become accustomed to bringing us our favorite pepperoni topped treats is getting futuristic. The Australian independent branch of the pizza franchise, Dominos, is developing an innovative way of bringing starving customers their pies by creating a robot. According to NOLA, the new four wheeled prototype ...

Written by Carlius Williams, Staff Writer Amazon is about to eliminate the strain of shopping and loading grocery carts. The big thing in recent technology is drones, and Amazon is about to change the grocery game with their new grocery-delivering robots. They have plans to expand Amazon Fresh to include delivery by drones. The drones will not be like the ...

Written by Danielle Shaw, Staff Writer Case-sensitive passwords can be a drag when you fail to recall your first pet’s name, and can’t seem to prove that you’re simply visually impaired and NOT an alien when attempting to reset them. You think to yourself, “If only there were a simpler way.” Lucky for you MasterCard has got you covered! MasterCard ...

Written by Miles Brown, Staff Writer Have you ever messaged a stranger or received a message from a social media user and carried many different conversations before you realize you have no idea who you are really talking to.  Users who talk to fake profiles on the internet realize that they were never able to truly know who they were ...

Written by Julie Jernigan, Staff Writer It’s a Kardashian world and we’re just living in it, or Jenner to be exact. Kendall and Kylie Jenner, 20 and 18 respectively, have accomplished more in their lifetime than we ever could, and they haven’t made it to 21 yet. Whether their success is from nepotism or hard work is a whole other ...

Written by Tiarra Bell, Staff Writer For this first time in U.S history, surgeons will perform a penis transplant on an American veteran that was brutally injured during combat. The unnamed recipient lost majority of his penis during an explosion while deployed in Afghanistan. Surgeons hope to find a penis transplant from a deceased man providing full functions including urination, ...

Written by Kayla Stroud, Web Editor Facebook has introduced a new emoji feature to express whether a post is likeable enough. After months of testing, the social media platform is rolling out five new reaction emojis -“love,” “haha,” “angry,” “wow,” and “sad”- that will accompany the “like” button. While there still is no dislike button, the emojis are a step in ...

Written by Meaghan Bitters, Staff Writer Imagine a world where people can enter buildings and turn on machines using a tiny microchip in their hands. Well, that future—at least for Sweden—isn’t too far out. A few office workers in Sweden are being injected with a microchip the size of a grain of rice “that will open doors, turn on machines ...