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"Keeping Lugo Connected"

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The theater department has been in an awkward stasis the past 3 years, and has finally begun to find some stability. Both students in theater and students who watch the performances feel that theater has taken a turn for a better future under Mrs. Deming's leadership. Mrs. Deming shares that she strives to make theater grow with the creativity of the actors and actresses and helping the young stars create a new sense of relevancy in the world of Lugo.

After a period of uncertainty, curtains are drawn on theater’s new scene

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Editor
February 24, 2017
Overwatch has a brand new event starting today, the Lunar New Year. To celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rooster, Blizzard has released a slew of around 100 new Eastern-inspired skins, sprays, icons, highlight-intros, and emotes. A CTF-like Brawl has been released, Capture the Rooster, and will be played on a newly decorated Lijiang Tower to celebrate the New Year.

Lunar New Year event hits Overwatch servers today and brings several Chinese themed features

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Editor
January 24, 2017
Heavy rainy season causes the California drought to wane away

Heavy rainy season causes the California drought to wane away

Marissa Reinhart and Mason Lopez
January 22, 2017
Overwatch's biggest update went live today, and brought with it a ton of changes to heroes and introduced a brand new map, character, and a slew of game modes in the Arcade. The changes made in the update were mainly intended to balance the game in preparation of the new competitive season coming on the 23rd. The 20 million players of Overwatch, some of which attend Lugo, are more than excited for the update and the new features it brings to the game.

Update 1.5 infiltrates Overwatch today

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Editor
November 15, 2016
Anki's Cozmo is a new basis for human-to-robot interaction. With artificial intelligence, Cozmo is able to distinguish the user's personality and will refelect it on his own through a variety of emotions ranging from happiness, anger, excitement, and frustration. As of today, he is available for shipping at $180 in the US; shipments to other countries will be evaluated in the upcoming year.

Meet Cozmo: Anki’s artificial intelligence companion

Marissa Reinhart and Camille Encarnacion
October 17, 2016
Google is releasing the Chromecast Ultra to follow their competitors into 4K streaming. The Chromecast Ultra plugs into a TV and can stream content from Netflix and YouTube off of a phone or tablet. It is set to release in November at $69.

Google upgrading to 4K with Chromecast Ultra

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
October 12, 2016
Google wants to provide fast, quality WiFi to millions of people all across the world with Google Station. Google Station will be somewhat of an expansion off of a project completed along the Indian Railway, a project that has provided WiFi to over 3.5 million people per month. Google will create deals with partners to set up Google Station 'hotspots' in businesses and buildings like shopping malls and universities.

Google Station providing fast WiFi to anyone, anywhere

Joel Chavez and Marissa Reinhart
September 30, 2016
Music fans everywhere know the struggle of buying tickets online, and soon they may finally be able to feel relief. The BOTS Act was sent to Senate, and if passed, will outlaw any use of scalper bots when buying tickets online. Without ticket scalpers, every music fan will soon be able to see their favorite artists without the hassle of buying tickets at ridiculous prices.

Concert goers-bought by bots?

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 23, 2016
Project Wing is teaming up with Virginia Tech and Chipotle to test and gather data about delivery drones that could become the norm in the coming year. Select students and employees of Virginia Tech will place orders of Chipotle burritos, then the orders will be made in a food truck and delivered to the testing site near the school by drone. By conducting these tests, Project Wing is working toward their ultimate goal of innovating the delivery system and making use of empty airspace.

Cloudy with a chance of burritos

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 14, 2016
Zero Zero Robotics revealed the Hover Camera earlier this year, announcing it as "the world’s first truly consumer-friendly self-flying camera that you can touch, engage with, and carry (at just 238 grams) in ways that were never before possible." Some of its capabilities are to follow the user, hover for 8 minutes on a full battery charge, and take videos and photos in 4k. The company had a vision of a world where every device is smart and simple for every consumer to use, and they believe that with the Hover Camera, they are taking their first step to the future.

Hover Camera snaps a shot of the future

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 8, 2016
Principal engineer and inventor Peter Lewis created the modular ByFusion machine that turns plastic waste into building resources. ByFusion's team saw the growing issue of plastic building up in the environment, so they decided to put it to use by building structures and homes in places such as California and Hawaii. ByFusion states that "our world is drowning in plastic waste and we are passionately committed to finding a solution."

ByFusion’s building blocks

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
August 30, 2016
No Man's Sky has been one of the most highly-anticipated games since it was announced at E3 2014. Upon release, however, the game faced a lot of discrepancies involving what developer Sean Murray had stated in numerous interviews versus what the game actually includes. Whether the players care about the false hope about NMS that the devs built up, or enjoy the game as it is, is up to the individual to decide.

No Man’s buy? Dishonesty from infinity to beyond

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
August 23, 2016
Lugo student Hazel Carpenter poses with her horse, ready for the competition. The Chino Fair allowed Lugo to host the annual horse show, and the students were happy to hear that they can compete. Mrs. Doyle shared that "we're excited to have the public see what we've been doing. They [the students] are a little nervous, but they'll do just fine."

Chino Fair Horse Show Hosted at Lugo

Marissa Reinhart, Reporter
June 7, 2016
Hoping to provide recognition to students for their accomplishments throughout their high school career, Mrs. Rigo-Witt has announced the addition of new graduation cords. Sporting a new array of colors, graduates will stand out when showing off their achievements. Different clubs and programs now have cords to represent them during the ceremony.

Activities Director Announces New Cords and Stoles for Graduation

Marissa Reinhart, Reporter
May 19, 2016
A research team at the University of Tokyo have made progress in making electronic skin a utilizable device. From monitoring a person's health to being a 'walking notice-board,' the e-skin has many possible uses in the near future. The super-thin e-skin (which is approximately 13 times thinner than a human hair) is made up of various layers of rubber and PLEDs to emit light, even when it is stretched over skin and crumpled up.

Researchers light up future with E-Skin

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
May 12, 2016
Nintendo's first free-to-use app, Miitomo, was released for Android and iOS devices on March 17. The app has been regarded by fans as "whimsical," yet critics claim that the excitement of the app falls off rather quickly. For Nintendo, this is a different angle on their normal market of games, with Miitomo being advertised as a 'social-networking' app.

Be social with Mii

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
April 13, 2016
Amazon Echo is the newest voice-control gadget that makes everyday tasks simpler, and perhaps more fun. Innovative in its accuracy of speech recognition, intelligence, and unique features such as ordering pizza, Echo is growing in popularity and reputation. Being connected to the cloud at all times, the intelligence behind Echo, Alexa, is constantly learning new things and increasing in functionality for a better user experience.

Alexa is ready to Echo your command

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
February 18, 2016
The Fine Bros., Benny (left) and Rafi (right) Fine, rescind their trademark and apologize to the internet. Many previous subscribers did not take this apology well and refuse to let the channel live this down. Whether The Fine Bros. will be able to let this mistake demean their channel or not is unclear.

YouTube Reacts to the Finest Error

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
February 12, 2016
The iPhone 4s is reportedly rendered useless when updated to iOS9. Apple is facing a $5 million class action lawsuit over "false advertising." Customers are frustrated over being forced to choose between a slow phone or buying a new one.

Apple Forces iPhone 4s Users to Pay Hundreds

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
January 11, 2016
Google Fiber. A revolutionary idea to give the United States the best internet speed available. Fiber is nearly 10 times faster than any other ISP can provide today. What takes hours to download on Verizon can take seconds with Fiber.

Fiber Sticks It To Modern ISPs

Marissa Reinhart and John Marquez
December 2, 2015
Zerodium made a 1 million dollar bounty in October, prompting programmers to create a jailbreak for ios 9. The company set requirements for the jailbreak to meet in order to redeem the bounty. 2 companies have reportedly created an adequate jailbreak; which in the near future will be made available to U.S. citizens.

IOS 9 Jailbreak Confirmed

John Marquez and Marissa Reinhart
November 9, 2015
Premium accounts are coming soon to YouTube. Having a premium account offers various benefits, including no ads. However, users are predicting that with the new update, there will be more ads without the choice to skip them.

Premium Accounts are Coming to YouTube

Chris Aerts and Marissa Reinhart
October 2, 2015
(Image from steamtradingcards.wikia.com) The game "Journey of the Light" proves to just be a scam. "...there is one unsolvable level," declares a user from imgur.com. Buyers of the game fired complaints to Steam about the game, and received full refunds.

Scammers are Picking up Steam

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 28, 2015
"Apple Pencil gives you a variety of tools in a single instrument", Apple says. The high quality features of the pencil are easy and convenient to use on the iPad Pro. It will be released in November 2015, and will be priced at $99.

Apple Draws a New Line with Apple Pencil

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 17, 2015
Big corporate YouTube attempts to monopolize the online video industry by placing a bid on Twitch.TV. After being rejected, YouTube takes livestreaming into their own hands. "The gap in quality that existed has now been bridged, and YouTube stands as Twitch's equal in pure technical terms," states Vlad Savov from the Verge in his article "YouTube is now better at live streaming than Twitch".

Youtube vs. Twitch: Which is Which?

Marissa Reinhart, Tech Reporter
September 8, 2015
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