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Hello everybody; it's been a while. With school, work, and my extracurricular activities, I haven't had as much time as I would have wanted to spend writing. In the two years since I've last posted, I was vice president, president, and varsity captain for my high school's Academic Decathlon team, went to the California state Academic Decathlon competition twice, was a student commissioner for my city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, a speech coach for Chinese students learning English, earned my Eagle Scout rank, and was accepted into my dream school, the University of California San Diego. With that in mind, I'm also about to graduate high school. I wasn't the speaker that my high school teachers were looking for as graduation speaker, but I thought it would be remiss if I did not say anything. My original speech would seem a bit out of context as an article, so this is a slightly abridged version. "Throughout my high school career, this

Racial tensions have been high in the United States for awhile now, and in some areas, very similar to how they were during the 1960's Civil Rights movement. As a result, many problems have been exposed. Most recently, there was the horrible slaughtering of nine innocent churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. This was without a doubt a horrible, racially motivated event that blatantly showed once again how far America has to go to completely eradicate racism. Not only did this show how racism is still thriving in our country, it also sparked a debate over one of this country’s most racist symbols ever made: the Confederate flag. Everyone is arguing over the flag, but what is the actual argument? Right now, the Confederate flag is flying over the South Carolina capitol building and is currently apart of many states’ flags. Even though the Confederate States of America dissolved almost 150 years ago, they still felt the need to fly the flag. There are states that do not wave

Hot damn. Apple just recently added a new laptop to their lineup. No it is not just an iterative spec update, but rather Apple positions this as the laptop of the future. Well, the future of now. They say your next laptop will be like this, and maybe even the one after that. The company wowed the world with the MacBook Air back in 2008, but can they do it again with the new MacBook? Most of you will hear "MacBook" and a few different laptops will pop into your head. There's the current MacBook Pros, MacBook Air, and then the old black and white plastic MacBooks that were discontinued in 2011. The 2015 MacBook is an entirely new beast. Apple is not pushing the boundaries on what a laptop is supposed to be, but they are pushing the limits in many other areas. The new MacBook comes in three colors: space grey, silver, and gold. The space grey looks exactly like the space grey on the iPhone, and the silver model is identical to the MacBook Air. But if you pick

It's 7:15 at night. The sun has been below the horizon for quite some time, but it is not yet my bedtime. I go to the cashier and ask her if they are showing my movie. She gives me a puzzled look, checks the queue, and luckily finds the tickets I am looking for. After asking my age she assures me that I have nothing to be ashamed about, nothing to fear. I then pass through the doors and embark on a journey I have been waiting for more than a decade to begin. Back in 2004 Nickelodeon, Stephen Hillenburg, & company released the very first feature film of the SpongeBob Squarepants franchise: The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie . The cartoon had been around for less than five years at the time, and many people did not expect much from its box office release. However, it did do very well for a television cartoon movie grossing more than $32 million opening weekend and receiving average scores of 66/100. This might sound mediocre compared to Oscar winning films, but this is incredib

The forty-eighth Consumer Electronics Show is almost upon us, and with it comes the next year of technology. Even though the show has died down a bit since its humble beginnings, hundreds of companies show off their latest and greatest in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. There are many gizmos, gadgets, and vehicles shown off at CES, but here are the best. Acer Chromebook 15 Acer was making news even before CES started by unveiling the largest Chromebook in the world. The Chromebook 15, unsurprisingly, has a fifteen inch display to show off the latest build of Chrome OS. It comes with 1,366 x 758 or 1080p display, and comes with an un-specified fifth generation Intel Broadwell processor. This is the first Broadwell Chromebook to be announced, and we can't tell if there is a notable performance leap compared to last year's Haswell Chromebooks. Nothing else about the Chromebook 15 is worth writing home about, though. The keyboard is decent to type on, the trackpad is somewhat p

CES 2015 is this week, and hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to Las Vegas to be a part of the madness. Everyone from tech reporters, to company executives, to small startups are there to see what the next year of tech will bring. Thousands of products are unveiled every day at CES, but there are a few you should definitely know about. We'll see game changers and complete failures, and they will all shape the next year of technology. We are here to show you the best of the best from CES 2015, and we will be reporting on it all week long. Stay tuned and get ready for CES 2015 at Tech & Company.