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Students launch app to help users find the best Freshers’ events

A group of Exeter students and graduates have created an app to help students discover events in the city. Officially launching this Freshers’ Week, Motive is the brainchild of developer Mitch Robinson, 2019 Computer Science graduate, and designer Louis Evans, second-year Computer Science undergraduate. Responding to feedback that Facebook has become too saturated with events, […]

Living the Dream

Exploring the concept of lucid dreaming, and why research into sleep science has culminated in the launch of an app that you could only dream of! Dreams are odd. They can be things of complete and utter joy or frightening nightmares where you just want to wake up. Would our dreams be different if we […]

Anonymoose – Exeter’s answer to YikYak

Disclaimer: the author of this article was an early adopter of Anonymoose. What is Anonymoose? Anonymoose is an anonymous, location-based online message board. The website is designed with mobile in mind but it works on tablets and computers as well. Users write short text posts that are visible only in their local area. You can comment on […]

Exeter graduate to give TEDx talk in London

Exeter graduate and Kompas App co-founder Tom Charman has been invited to give a TEDx talk this month – asking audiences: “Are We Ready for the Future of Technology?” Charman announced the event on Facebook on 2 October, telling followers he was “happy to be able to ofﬁ0cially conﬁrm” his ﬁrst ever TEDx talk, held […]

Lecturer’s climate change game hits the App Store

A game has been developed in collaboration with scientists at the University of Exeter to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change on the Antarctic ice sheet. “Ice Flows” was developed by Anne Le Brocq, a senior lecturer at the University, with the support of Exeter company Inhouse Visuals. The British Antarctic Survey is the […]

YikYak take further steps to remove anonymity

The social media platform YikYak took Exeter by storm after it launched in 2013. It was by every measure a success – the students loved it, the university supported it, and the company expanded it (even coming onto campus multiple times to hand out stash). Fears that it would abandon its key feature – anonymity […]

Forest App review: procrastination plantation

I don’t often pay for apps. In fact, swiping through my phone, I can’t find a single one which I actually purchased. Maybe it’s because I’m northern. Maybe that’s a bit politically incorrect. So when I impulsively forked out 79p for Forest about a week ago, I almost surprised myself. I wanted to see if this […]