Technology
Call of Duty: Play or propaganda?

Call of Duty: Play or propaganda?

It would be hard to find someone who isn’t familiar with the iconic, best-selling first-person shooter game, Call of Duty (COD).  With 19 different games released since the beginning of the franchise in 2003, COD is available on nearly every gaming platform there...

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Nostalgia and the niche 2021 Neopets presence

Nostalgia and the niche 2021 Neopets presence

Anyone who spent enough time on the Internet in the 2000s was probably familiar with the groundbreaking multiplayer online game, Neopets. Started in 1999 by an independent media company, the virtual pet website built enough hype to be bought out by Viacom for $160...

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How to keep your job when robots take over

How to keep your job when robots take over

Automation and artificial intelligence is already changing the workplace. There's self-checkout in grocery stores, self-driving cars, and robots in Amazon warehouses. It can feel uncertain entering the job market in the 2020s when you’re not sure if your job will...

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Talk Nerdy to Me: Good ol’ fashioned pinball

Talk Nerdy to Me: Good ol’ fashioned pinball

It’s the bright lights and the sounds of metallic bells dinging that takes me back to when I was a kid, asking my parents for a quarter to play pinball at the Red Robin on 50th Street in north Edmonton. I consider myself lucky to be able to revisit that memory in my...

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Conspiracy corner: Was COVID-19 created in a lab?

Conspiracy corner: Was COVID-19 created in a lab?

I have been saying it for years now people, and it's finally happened. It's obvious, the secret lizard government is behind it all. I’m talking about the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic of course. I mean, what sounds more believable? That this whole thing just sprang...

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