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Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine

Left to right: Angie Ngo, Angela Wu, Joseph Badillo, and Gwen Northcutt play Pokémon GO at SF State on Sept. 13, 2023 (Neal Wong/Xpress Magazine)

Yes, People Still Play Pokémon GO

Daniela Perez, Engagement & Online Editor
October 11, 2023

Behind the Humanities building, right outside of Taza’s Smoothies and Wraps at SF State, stands an 8-foot-tall time-worn copper statue of a couple dancing. It’s just a statue; what more can be seen? To...

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Paint or Pixels? The Ongoing Battle Between Tradition and Tech

Eian Gil, Editor in Chief
October 14, 2022

From Twitter bots to robots making coffee, advancements in artificial intelligence have allowed for more and more technology to permeate into our daily lives. It's difficult to point to a corner of the...

Decoding Blockchain

Decoding Blockchain

Carolina Diaz
December 15, 2018

In the market for drugs? You might want to think outside the box for this one. Or maybe you want to know whether that tomato you’re eating is really organic. Wondering if that news story someone shared...

Data Mining: The New Gold Rush

Data Mining: The New Gold Rush

Naomi Rachel Outlaw
April 5, 2015
Everyone's utilizing this science to learn more about society through the lens of metadata.

Swift, Stuck in 1989

Katie Mullen
November 10, 2014

  Well, Taylor Swift’s album 1989 has had the biggest sales week since 2002 which went to Britney Spears with Oops…I Did It Again. Seeing as how she pulled her album from music streaming...

Is Texting Slowly Taking Over?

Janelle Moncada
October 29, 2014

Have you ever walked onto BART or MUNI and noticed that one person smiling at his or her phone? Or for that matter, have you noticed how most people are quickly typing away on their phones, probably...

Are you overly attached to technology?

Danielle Parenteau
October 29, 2014

The next time you are sitting in a classroom or stuck on an overcrowded Muni vehicle, silently cursing it for threatening to make you late to class yet again, take a look around. How many people are...

Kickstart Your Art

xpressmagazine
March 12, 2012

Written by Leigh Walker @leighwalker It’s another day at Calen Perkins and Andrzej “Zej” Kozlowski’s home recording studio in San Francisco. Acoustic and electric guitars line the...

Touchscreen Fever: The hottest new phones to use in school

xpressmagazine
October 4, 2011

It is 2011 now, and time to ditch that old phone. Heck, these days, if it still has keys, you are effectively in the dark ages. Touch screens are the norm now, don’t think you can look cool texting...

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