Calvin University Chimes

Review: Moto 360 smartwatch

John Muyskens
September 18, 2014

Motorola unveiled its first smartwatch, the Moto 360, two weeks ago. If you didn’t notice, I don’t blame you. The product announcement was a modest press event sans famous rock band. The Moto 360 didn’t...

Rapid bus system to add new line, release bus routes to Google Transit

Grace Ruiter
March 7, 2014

Rapid bus system users will soon be able to plot out their bus routes on Google Transit, take a bus straight from Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Allendale campus to downtown Grand Rapids and...

Ray Kurzweil searches for immortality

Joseph Matheson
February 20, 2014

Raymond Kurzweil, chief of engineering at Google, is hopeful that humans will have pushed back human mortality before he grows much older. Kurzweil, a longtime proponent of futurism and transhumanism...

Google sells Motorola to Lenovo

Jonathan Hielkema
February 6, 2014

Nearly two years ago, in May 2012, Google completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, one of the largest phone companies in the world. At the time, the new Google-appointed head of the company...

Google’s book scanning ruled fair use by judge

John Muyskens
December 6, 2013

A judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit regarding Google Books on Thursday, Nov. 14. The Authors Guild brought the lawsuit against Google, Inc. in 2005, claiming that the company infringed copyright by scanning...

Google Chrome most-used browser by students, Safari second

Ryan Struyk
September 19, 2012

More than 40 percent of Calvin students use Google Chrome as their primary Internet browser, according to new numbers from Calvin Information Technology. “I love Google Chrome,” said junior Elena...