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Registration Schedule Builder will be available beginning summer semester 2018. Photo credit: Casey Bullock

New registration software adapts to students’ work schedules

Zac Watts February 23, 2018

Starting summer semester 2018, Weber State University’s registrar is rolling out new software that will automatically populate available classes in accordance with students' work schedules. Casey...

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Outdoor Weber offers $30,000 to think outside the box

Zac Watts February 10, 2018

Outdoor Weber, a competition organized by Weber State University’s Hall Global Entrepreneurship Center, has received over 100,000 site visits and over 80 submissions from all over the United States. Brandon...

Ahmed Bouzid, CEO at Witlingo, talks to the audience about the benefits of voice first during his lecture on Jan. 26 as a part of Lingofest. Photo credit: Chloe Walker

Lingofest: the voices of the future

Zac Watts January 31, 2018

Representatives from Amazon, Google, Comcast and several other telecom companies gathered at Weber State University on January 25 and 26 for the inaugural Lingofest, an annual voice-command technology...

Parts of the machine built by the New Bridge School team, the Goldberg Knights. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

Rube Goldberg machine contest builds engineers of the future

Zac Watts January 19, 2018

High school, junior high and elementary school students came together Jan. 19 for an annual Utah Air Force Association and Weber State University Rube Goldberg Competition. Designed to make the simplest...

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Finding jobs begins with a Handshake

Zac Watts January 12, 2018

Handshake, a college career recruiting web program and smartphone app, has come to Weber State University. With over 475 university career centers and 200,000 employers in its wheelhouse, Handshake aims...

Robot Sophia. (Wikimedia)

Meet Sophia, the world’s first robot citizen

Zac Watts November 29, 2017

Saudi Arabia made history on Oct. 25 by declaring Sophia, a highly advanced, human-like robot, its first artificially intelligent citizen. Sophia is not only Saudi Arabia’s first robot citizen but...

Fallout shelter sign in the Technical Education Building at Weber State. (Sara Parker / The Signpost)

WSU alum and designer of iconic fallout shelter symbol dies at 95

Zac Watts November 18, 2017

To anyone who has seen a propaganda film from the 1960s, the iconic fallout shelter design is probably familiar. What may not be as familiar, however, is that its late creator was Ogden native and Weber...

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Storytelling: Changing the world one brain at a time

Zac Watts November 9, 2017

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is perhaps one of the most important books in American history. Enraged by the injustices perpetrated against African American slaves and laws that would...

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The final frontier: colonizing our solar system

Zac Watts October 27, 2017

If Elon Musk is to be believed, humans will be living on another planet within the next decade. According to Musk, “We will stay on Earth forever, and eventually there will be an extinction event....

Speaker Brian McCullough giving a lecture about the history of Google. (Joshua Wineholt / The Signpost)

History of Google: how the internet happened

Zac Watts October 19, 2017

Brian McCullough, host of the “Internet History” podcast and author of the upcoming book “How the Internet Happened,” spoke at Weber State University on Oct. 17.He delivered an...

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Artificial Intelligence: Humanity’s greatest threat?

Zac Watts September 29, 2017

According to several scientists, innovators and other technology experts, robots may be what exterminates humanity in the end of times. Whether they hunt us down and exterminate us, like in “The Terminator,”...

Director J.J. Abrams is set to direct the ninth installment of the Star Wars saga. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Force Awakens again: J.J. Abrams set to return to Star Wars

Zac Watts September 24, 2017

J.J. Abrams, director of such films as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Super 8, has been hired to direct the currently untitled ninth installment of the main Star Wars continuity of films.It was previously...

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