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Grant Thompson, 14, of Catalina, Arizona has become one of the latest in a group to be promised payment for finding a major bug in Apple’s products. The bug in question is a major privacy concern that showed up in FaceTime, allowing Thompson to listen in on his friends through the app regardless of whether […]

This last weekend at the Boone DMACC Campus the Journalism and History departments hosted a Forum. Senator Jerry Behn and Representative Phil Thompson came to campus to answer questions presented to them by the community. They met Saturday morning. There were comments about the forum going smoothly. Everyone got their questions answered. Topics that were […]

The men’s basketball team for Des Moines Area Community College won their game against the Little Priest Tribal team Thursday with a 26 point lead. The overall scores were 92-75. They will be play against the Mount Mercy College junior varsity team today at 6pm in the DMACC gym. The DMACC women’s basketball team won […]

College is a great experience that comes with a price. Most new students are learning what it’s like to be an adult―having to pay for tuition and books, get their own food, live on their own and pay rent, amongst other adult things. Being a college student can be rough, but colleges have resources, from […]

This Friday is National Wear Red Day, which is to bring awareness to a problem area in women’s health, cardiovascular disease.  Heart disease is the number one cause of death for women according to the American Heart Association, which promotes Wear Red Day.  The idea of Wear Red Day is to raise awareness for this problem, […]

By DMACC Banner staff Ainsley Schuler and Micki Anderson On the DMACC Boone Campus students, faculty and staff often share the same concerns. One is how to save money, and people on campus had a variety of suggestions. One common response was to live at home as long as possible. “Stay at home more,” suggested […]

M. Night Shyamalan did it again. After directing hits Unbreakable and Split, he unified the two films’ characters into a clever and twisting film that left the audience feeling both played and satisfied. This review will not contain spoilers for Glass, but will likely spoil Unbreakable and Split. The film begins by reintroducing the audience […]

As the government shutdown stretches on and becomes the longest in history, it can feel like it doesn’t affect central Iowa at all.  Washington D.C. is hundreds of miles away and talk of the negotiations are only relayed to us via various news outlets. We hear about the 800,000 federal workers who are either working […]

With 1:49 left to play in a 20-20 game and the Saints facing a third-and-10 from the Rams’ 13-yard line, Drew Brees dropped back and threw a pass to TommyLee Lewis, and that’s when this happened. The Saints got screwed by one of the worst no-calls in NFL history. Nickell Robey-Coleman not only made helmet […]

Netflix’s presence as a streaming service of licensed and original content has been growing throughout the 21 years since its founding. Since it first began providing streaming in 2008, it has grown into one of the primary content streaming services worldwide. The original price point in 2008 was $4.99 monthly for the combined service of […]