Category: Technology
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Technology News: Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton’s (@Young_Guru) TEDYouth Remix
If you’re a regular round these parts then y’all know I’m a huge lover of technology and a big STEM advocate. 2012 has been a good year for hip hop being integrated into major technology events: Will.I.Am and LL Cool J both presented at CES back in January (the world’s largest consumer electronics and technology event),…
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Technology News: DJ Fusion (@FuseBoxRadio) & TEDxOrlando (@TEDTalks) — “Hip Hop Is Not Dead” (Video)
Last year I found out about the TED community through my company’s chief information officer (CIO), who is young, hip and a big advocate of cutting edge technology and applying it to our daily lives. TED’s motto is "Ideas worth spreading", which essentially involves folks with in depth knowledge of a particular topic (technology, science,…
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Happy Birthday: Today WXYC (@WXYC) 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC Simulcast Turns 18!!
Eighteen years ago on November 7, 1994 WXYC 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, North Carolina became the first radio station in the world to ever simulcast their stream on the internet. WXYC’s original radio internet streaming used the Cu-SeeMe Utility, which was developed at Cornell University. The radio station is located on the campus of UNC-Chapel…
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Technology News: Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton (@Young_Guru) Collaborates With Georgia Tech’s EarSketch Project
This past weekend the 2012 A3C Hip Hop Festival went down in grand fashion. It was the third year I’ve attended, and was hands down the best year so far (minus a few frustrating details, which Jenesis Magazine did a great job of recapping). One of the highlights of my 2012 A3C experience was receiving…
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Hip Hop Science: Squids Get Turnt Up When Listening To Hip Hop Music (Video)
Backyard Brains is a company that uses hands-on experiments to teach concepts in neuroscience. They along with marine biologists at Woods Hole, MA recently conducted an experiment which showed how squid physically react when exposed to hip hop music. Squid are gifted with the ability to camoflage, which they use to blend into (or stand…
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Tech News: AutoRap, The App That Corrects “Bad Rapping” (Video)
Prerna Gupta, CEO and co-owner of Khush (too easy so I won’t even touch it), has invented an app that turns speech into rap and corrects "bad rapping." To be clear, there are already "rap apps" on the market (LaDiDa), however AutoRap takes the words you speak into it, modifies the lyrics and adds a…
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Technology News: Glass. Google Introduces It’s Newest Bleeding Edge Gadget (Video)
Now this looks pretty cool. Forbes (@Forbes) reports on Google’s latest cutting edge technology, Glass, which is a first person point of view gadget that a user wears on their face like a pair of glasses. Glass allows the wearer to broadcast and interact with others at eye level. Glass is currently only available as…
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Technology News: Check Out The PAL-V Flying Car (Video)
You guys know I’m a big technology kid so this video grabbed my attention. Over the weekend the annual New York International Car Show opened in the city. The Dutch company PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) released this video of its flying car prototype. The PAL-V has a range of 315 miles and a…
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Inside 50 Cent’s (@50Cent) Empire With Forbes (Video)
While attending CES 2012, 50 Cent talks with Forbes’ Kim McNichols about his expanding empire. During their chat 50 reveals that the SMS headphone line is his first time being the CEO of a physical product (not counting his music), being in control of his brand expansion opportunities, acquiring Akuna Audio in order to launch SMS Audio,…