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The History of Windows XP’s Development.

Diamond M. Garcia, Editor in Chief 2021-2022 November 5, 2021
As a writer for my school newspaper, The WestSide Story, most of my articles consist of politics. However, when I received a message on my Instagram asking about my passion for IT, I was certainly open to the idea of discussing some topics.
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What is The COVID-19 Vaccine?

Asher Schroader October 6, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is easily one of the largest and most disruptive events to occur in recent history. Billions have been affected by the changes to global society, but it seems that life is beginning to return to normal
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The 2011 PlayStation Network Hack – What Actually Happened?

Diamond M. Garcia, Editor in Chief 2021-2022 October 1, 2021
On April 4th, 2011, the Hacktivist group Anonymous brought down Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) with a Targeted Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack.

Why are gas prices high?

Anthony Acevedo, Reporter May 3, 2021

Gas seems to be going up lately, hitting $3.00 per gallon. What could be causing it?  The price for gas seems to have risen since President Biden’s Executive Order that ended the Keystone XL pipeline...

Cryptocurrency

Anthony Acevedo, Reporter April 1, 2021

The value of the Dollar is dropping as the years go by, new kinds of currencies have arisen in a Digital Form. Cryptocurrency is an upcoming type of virtual currency and a way of payment in some locations....

Reddit Vs. Wall Street

Anthony Acevedo, Reporter March 4, 2021

On January 27, 2021, GameStop stocks reached an all time high of $347.51 because of amutuer investors and a Reddit Community. Last month, GameStop’s stock rose in value out of nowhere which caused...

Emulation or Piracy?

Emulation or Piracy?

Anthony Acevedo, Reporter December 2, 2020

As the year's progress, old video games and consoles become harder and harder to find and afford, but emulation isn’t.  Emulation is hardware or software that allows the user to run a software, or...

Scalpers

Anthony Acevedo, Reporter November 2, 2020

In today’s day and age, there are people who want to make a quick or large profit by simply selling inflated priced items. These people are called Scalpers Scalpers are people who buy in large quantities...

The Nintendo Entertainment System

Joey Provencio, Comic Illustrator October 29, 2020

The History  It’s 1983. Nintendo, a Japanese toy company turned arcade giant, had just released the Family Computer (styled as “Famicom”) in the Japanese market. At the same time, the West was...

GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce RTX 3080

Anthony Acevedo October 5, 2020

Announced on September 1, The new GeForce RTX 3080 will be released on September 17th, 2020 with a starting price of $699 by NVIDIA. The RTX 3080 is a new graphics card made by NVIDIA, and is part of...

The Science of Swearing

The Science of Swearing

Eli Sorensen, Senior Design Editor February 26, 2020

If Skyline High School received an age rating from the MPAA, it wouldn’t be PG-13—any more than one f-word in a film pushes its rating to R. Take one listen on a trip down the hallways during passing...

Corona Catastrophe Sweeps the Globe

Beatriz Ramirez, Reporter February 26, 2020

Back in December, some reports started to emerge that a coronavirus that specialists had never seen before in humans had begun to spread among the population of Wuhan, a large city located in China.   Ever...

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