Arts and Tech

23May Chloe Zhou137 Comments

U.S. military begins preparations for space warfare

With the rapid advancement of technology, modern-day battlefields are shifting away from the traditional triage of land, air, and water, and moving towards a new frontier: space.  More than ever, humans’ lives rely on satellites in outer space. They are essential for many daily activities, including bank transactions, stock market monitoring, and television viewing. In […]

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20May Utsav Mittal '25 Larry Zhan134 Comments

Possible Spies from China: TikTok Congressional Hearing

TikTok is one of the most popular apps in America, boasting more than 150 million active users. It is generally used as a social media forum, centering on short-form video content, typically between 15-60 seconds. Tiktok’s popularity led to the explosion of similar types of content on other social media platforms like Instagram and Youtube  […]

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15May Celina Bagchi '24No Comments

Appreciating GA’s Mission With Poetry 

Every April in the United States, poetry is celebrated in its many forms through National Poetry Month. A classic form of literature that has been used for centuries, poetry is beloved for its expressiveness, open-ended nature, and elegance. Different readers can interpret the same poem in an infinite number of ways. As such, it’s a […]

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4May Taryn DiFranco '25 Katherine Song '25No Comments

Student artist’s work celebrated with annual Honors Art Show and reception

The most recent show on display in the Art Center was the Upper School Honors Art show, which ran from Dec 5, 2022 through Feb 1, 2023. The show featured students’ work from a variety of art classes, including 2D, 3D, sculpture, photography, and digital media.  One student, Taylor Weiss ’23, decided to focus her […]

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15Apr Brendan Hodgens '24 Shae Sawyer- St. Clair '24128 Comments

Lawsuit on AI for Copyright Infringement

In Nov. 2022, a lawyer and the legal team at Joseph Saveri Law Firm teamed up and filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI’s Copilot tool that generates code within a programmer’s code editor (The Verge). Copilot is trained to reproduce the publicly available code from GitHub, a code hosting platform.  This lawsuit targets […]

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13Apr Grace Taylor '24No Comments

Australian Team develops Revolutionary Hydrogen and Diesel Engine

As of this year, engineers at the University of South Wales in Australia have discovered a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize the construction and mining industries: a hybrid diesel and hydrogen engine. This technology was developed to cut carbon emissions from machinery, and has since proven successful with an 85% reduction in […]

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10Apr Zara Bhatt '24 Carmela Jenckes '24No Comments

The Dangers Of Self-Driving Cars

Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated a recall for Teslas with full self-driving technology. While the feature required drivers to be somewhat attentive at the wheel, the NHTSA noted several safety concerns; for example, the vehicle would drive straight through intersections in turn-only lanes and would perform a rolling stop at stop signs. […]

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2Mar Celina Bagchi '24No Comments

Humanoid Robots

This robot might just be the answer to all your household cleaning needs. The latest prototype from the Japan-based company Aeolus Robotics is here to do the dishes for you. Currently on display at CES 2023—the most influential tech event in the world—the prototype is a humanoid robot designed to benefit people through the use […]

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16Feb Benjamin Moorhouse '26No Comments

Imitation or Over Hiring? 

In 2022, large tech companies fired over 154,000 employees, 60,000 of which occurred during November and December.  Twitter led the layoff charge that immensely shook the economy, as Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk released 50% of the entire workforce. Halfway through the year, the employee count sat at 7,500; by the year’s end Musk slashed […]

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11Dec Jessica Wang Neha Jonnalagadda '25No Comments

A Recent Upsurge in a New Artistic Form of Technology

In the past few years, the technological and artistic world collided to form AI Generated art. AI generated art creates pieces of artwork by combining images found online. Types of softwares such as Midjourney, StableDiffusion, and Artbreeder, require users to input certain descriptive words, in turn creating new, highly detailed art pieces that match.  In […]

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