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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. 

If you have not been living under a rock for the past 365 days, you would know that a few things happened in 2014. Some of these events are more important than the others, so here is what you need to know from 2014. FCC and Net Neutrality Net Neutrality has been an issue for many years, but 2014 was the year more people started to take notice. If you are one of the many people that still do not know what net neutrality is, it is the issue of broadband providers wanting to treat internet traffic in different ways. This does not sound very important, but it can make the internet a complete nightmare to use. Broadband providers can slow down your internet when you visit certain websites, and even make you pay extra to use them. When you pay $8 a month for Netflix, Comcast or Time Warner Cable will be able to make you pay an extra amount on top of that just to use it. Time Warner can make Spotify stream so slowly that you are forced to use Rdio. We are not quite there yet, ...

As technology constantly evolves, older technology is phased out. Welcome to RIP, our dedication posts to slowly dying technology. The gaming industry has been the star of the technology industry for decades now. Before we had computers on our desks, and way before cell phones were in our pockets, there were video games. Whether it be going down to the arcade, playing Star Wars: Battlefront at home, or duking it out in MarioKart while on the go, almost everyone has played video games. Despite what you may think, people of all ages play some form of video games and that is not going to change anytime soon. I can say without a doubt that someone, somewhere, will always be a gamer. But the times, they are a changin'. Many people don't need a console or handheld to get their gaming fix. Why pay $500 for a Xbox One or $200 for a PS Vita when the iPhone you already have has  Infinity Blade III . And if you do buy a console, is it really worth the bag/purse/gigantic pocket s...