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Navigating the Harker tech ocean: Time-saving shortcuts

Navigating the Harker tech ocean: Time-saving shortcuts

by Praveen Batra and Derek Yen March 13, 2015

Athena2. Gmail. Google Drive. The list of Harker web services is as vast as the seven seas. Here are a few tips to help you cut through stormy waters as you sail the Harker tech ocean. Unsend Gmail...

Apple announced a new MacBook laptop and also finalized the details for its upcoming watch in a keynote on Monday. Apple will begin selling both devices in April.

New MacBooks and Apple Watch

by Vedant Thyagaraj March 12, 2015

Apple announced a redesign of the MacBook laptop and additional details, including upcoming availability, of its new Apple Watch at an event in San Francisco on Monday. Apple has brought back the MacBook,...

Senior Andrew Jin was named a first place winner at the Intel STS competition. Andrew is the first student from the school to win this award.

Senior Andrew Jin Named Intel STS Winner

by Vedant Thyagaraj and Vineet Kosaraju March 12, 2015

Senior Andrew Jin (12) was named one of the three first-place winners of the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) competition on Tuesday and will be honored at an assembly on Monday. This is the first time...

Silicon Valley startup Trio released an app for iOS devices yesterday that gives users tools to create mashup clips of videos, photos, animated GIFs, and music from Vine, Instagram, and Giphy.

Mashup creator app Trio released on Apple Store

by Vineet Kosaraju March 5, 2015

Media mashup creator mixed with social networking, Trio debuted this Wednesday on the iTunes Store for iOS devices. Made by the creators of Meograph, Trio allows its users to mix clips of videos, pictures...

Apple is in development of a vehicle, currently known as project Titan.
The car is projected to be released by the year 2020.

Apple Creates a Prototype for a Vehicle

by Vijay Bharadwaj March 4, 2015

Tech giant Apple is creating a prototype of an electric car for more than a year behind the scenes. In a description of the company’s activities, Apple recently added the topic of “vehicles”,...

The Pebble Time is Pebble's newest addition to its smart watch family. The device features a new color screen in place of the typical black and white screen found on the Pebble Smartwatch.

New Pebble SmartWatch

by Vedant Thyagaraj February 26, 2015

Pebble recently launched a new, color version of their smartwatch product, called the Pebble Time. Pebble was one of the first companies to enter the wearable tech market with the introduction of the...

Radioshack files for bankruptcy

Radioshack files for bankruptcy

by Vedant Thyagaraj February 20, 2015

Long time electronics retailer Radioshack filed for bankruptcy and will close down many stores in the near future. Radioshack sells electronic parts as well as gadgets such as TVs, computers, and phones....

Russian security software maker Kapersky Lab have found several hard drives with traces of a malware reportedly released by the NSA, named Fanny.

Hard drives reportedly infected by NSA malware

by Vineet Kosaraju February 19, 2015

A report compiled recently by Russian security software maker Kapersky Lab indicates that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has likely been infecting hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives...

184 Hours: Preparing for the FIRST Robotics Competition

184 Hours: Preparing for the FIRST Robotics Competition

by Vivek Bharadwaj and Kavya Ramakrishnan January 29, 2015

The clang of metal parts striking together echoes through Nichols 312, a room filled with programmers staring at their computers. In the robotics machine shop behind the room, a horizontal band saw in...

(BACK ROW) Seniors Steven Wang, Nikash Shankar, Neil Movva, Shikhar Dixit, Pranav Reddy, Sriram Somasunduram, Andrew Jin. (FRONT ROW) Seniors Kailas Vodrahalli, Cindy Liu, Andrew Zhang, Leo Yu, David Lin, and Anokhi Saklecha. 15 seniors were named Intel STS semifinalists on Jan.  7, the most in school history. Not pictured: Rohith Kuditipudi and Rachel Wu.

Q&A with some of the Semifinalists

by Kshithija Mulam and Vijay Bharadwaj January 29, 2015

Three Harker seniors were selected as finalists in the annual 2015 Intel Science Talent Search on Jan. 21, and fifteen seniors were named semifinalists on Jan. 7. This year, Harker not only has the largest...

The oxytocin molecule pictured above promotes bonding in both humans and other animals.

The chemistry behind good chemistry

by Vivian Isenberg and Maya Kumar January 29, 2015

Love is a seemingly intangible emotional concept, a purely subjective experience that varies from person to person. Society and the media influence our perception of the emotion, evident from the commercialization...

Google’s new driverless car cruises through the streets, using the sensor array mounted on the roof to steer.  The car is equipped with manual controls to comply with California state law.

Updated Google driverless cars hit the road

by Ashley Jiang and Meena Gudapati January 29, 2015

Google released its first fully functional self-driving car in December that included real headlights and temporary controls. Though these driverless cars haven’t been put on roads yet, they are anticipated...

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