Amid a social media frenzy, Matt Rowbotham and his co-founders have created a social media platform that’s not your typical scroll-and-like format. Naborly is designed to improve users’ mental well-being, and it’s launching exclusively at Baylor.
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On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a plan to ban TikTok across the state, and it’s a long-overdue move that will begin eradicating the most invasive social media platform from the app store.
Users of the matchmaking app Tinder have a greater chance of finding puppy love now that shelter dogs have made their way to the dating app.
Rates of campus sex crimes are on a steady rise nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Yik Yak is an app that consists of an anonymous chat board. It uses the GPS software in your phone and displays the posts from the 500 closest users to you. Personally, I like to describe it as the Burn Book of social media. The posts on Yik Yak can be ruthless, hilarious and everything in between.
Every fall, hundreds of freshman and transfer students arrive to Baylor without knowing how to get around campus. With the redesigned Baylor Campus Navigator app, students can know where to go on campus with free, real-time directions from their smartphone.
The most recent version of the app became available April 18. The new features are a scholarship calculator and a phone number section that provides university phone numbers, including those for the Baylor Police Department, ResTech, the Cashier’s Office and Health Services.
What was once inconceivable is now a reality. Gardeners can now text their plants.
Plant Link, a new product designed by Baylor alumni, allows gardeners to water their plants properly by calculating the plants’ environment and when it should be watered. Baylor graduate (’11) Eduardo Torrealba (’11) who is the founder and CEO of Oso Technologies, developed Plant Link after his wife received a plant from a former professor and it began to wither.
If you’re wondering where the after-hours Baylor shuttle is, there’s an app for that.
The late-night shuttle, new to the university this year, runs from 6:30 p.m. until 1:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday.
The bus is free to ride, and the after-hours shuttle makes nine stops during its 20-minute route. The shuttle has also been equipped with a GPS beacon.
Lost on campus? There’s an app for that.
Cypress senior Kyle Martin, an electrical engineering major, developed an application called “Baylor Campus Navigator” to help guide people through campus. The application is free and available for iPhone users in Apple’s App Store.