The student news site of Oakton High School

Oakton Outlook

The student news site of Oakton High School

Oakton Outlook

The student news site of Oakton High School

Oakton Outlook

Brendan Bellingham

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer

Starting my fourth year in journalism I plan to cover student athletics and technology news. The school newspaper has provided a great community of writers to progress my writing abilities.

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The Big Money in the Holiday Season

The Big Money in the Holiday Season

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 28, 2020

The holiday season is a time to visit family and spread cheer for all to hear. This time is also met with a break from work and school in favor of the finer things in life. The religious ties to this time...

Underdog Colleges that Should be on your List

Underdog Colleges that Should be on your List

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | October 31, 2019

Virginia holds a great deal of excellent public and private institutions. The larger schools are widely known for their football teams and low acceptance rates. These universities develop cult-like alliances...

Engadget

5G Speeds Coming to your Phone

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | March 11, 2019

Our phones are undoubtedly the most important technology we depend on. Their design continues to get thinner and their processing power continues to increase, but the data service that connects them to...

Podcasts to start you off

Podcasts to start you off

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | March 1, 2019

 Podcasts are a refined medium where everyone can gather entertainment and information for free. Often podcasts are substituted in situations where music would often be present such as when you are in...

Cnet

CES 2018 Brings Innovative Tech to Market

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 18, 2019

 The consumer electronics show is an annual gathering of technology companies in Las Vegas where new products are announced and concepts are showcased. Each year the tech gets more futuristic and experimental...

Engadget

Techtober Continues

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | October 23, 2018

The time of the year referred to as Techtober is when smartphone manufacturers push out their latest flagships before the holiday season hits. With the iPhone keynote announcing the new iPhone in September,...

Reuters/Carlo Allegri

Melania’s “African Tour” Stirs More Controversy Surrounding the Trump Administration

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | October 8, 2018

 Known as a former Italian model and the better half of the leader of the free world, Melania Trump has recently embarked on her first political venture without the president. Her overarching goal for...

Flicker

Google I/O 2018

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | September 16, 2018

Each year, Google holds a developer conference in Mountain View, California where sessions are held to detail new features of Google’s many software platforms for developers. Throughout the three day...

Snapchat in Moderation

Snapchat in Moderation

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | April 12, 2018

 Snapchat: The app that connects us all, the service that spams our notification trays daily, and the most used application on our phones. Snapchat’s integral part in not only our society but also...

MacBook? More like ChromeBook.

MacBook? More like ChromeBook.

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | March 24, 2018

 As a student at Oakton, you have likely become jealous of the hand full of students in your classes that whip out their shiny new MacBooks in class each day. As you wait for your sluggish Dell to boot...

You Should Buy a Smart Speaker

You Should Buy a Smart Speaker

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | February 24, 2018

 You’ve probably never wanted a smart speaker. Nobody seems to have an assistant in the home, but all assistants have a smart speaker to accompany them. As assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant...

Source: TechCrunch

HQ Trivia Hits Oakton High School

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 25, 2018

 HQ Trivia is a mobile game like no other before it. It was founded by the creators of Vine as a second project at the start of 2018 and has since gained popularity with a diverse user base. The game...

Photo by Mashable

The Toyota E-Palette: Autonomous vehicle platform like no other

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 17, 2018

 The Consumer Electronics Show is an annual convention held in Las Vegas that provides companies with a platform to announce products. Tech journalists flock to the convention every year and geek out...

Private Sector Space Race?

Private Sector Space Race?

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 10, 2018

  The race to put a man on the Moon in the 1960s was one of the most profound rivalries between two countries ever. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States was heavily publicized...

Disney Movies Leaving Netflix

Disney Movies Leaving Netflix

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | November 22, 2017

  The Walt Disney Company is one of the largest media companies in the entire world. They produce multi-million dollar animated children's movies through Pixar, popular children's television shows on...

Amazon Key and your Privacy

Amazon Key and your Privacy

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | November 14, 2017

  Amazon’s exponential growth and immense power in retail have made it one of the most powerful companies in the world today. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, is far from finishing the expansion of his...

Source: CNN Money

Google the new Apple?

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | October 21, 2017

  Google housed a hardware event this past week and unveiled a hardware lineup to compete with other tech giants like Apple and Amazon. The event was expected to announce the next Google Pixel phone...

Source: The Verge

iPhone Shaping Industry Standards

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | October 16, 2017

  The iPhone is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year by announcing three new models of their most popular product. Since the original iPhone shook the mobile phone into the future it has formed...

Elon Musk Changing the World

Elon Musk Changing the World

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | May 15, 2017

 Elon Musk will ,without a doubt, be remembered as a pioneer of private space travel, electric transportation, and clean energy production. He has started many successful companies such as Tesla and...

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iPhone Redesign Coming September

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | April 30, 2017

 The iPhone is the most popular phone in the world for some good reasons, it boasts a simplistic operating system and premium build quality that has attracted billions of customers throughout its 10...

Whats Old is New Again: The New Nokia 3310

What’s Old is New Again: The “New” Nokia 3310

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | March 1, 2017

  Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an annual technology conference where many big technology companies introduce new flashy phones into the market. The 2017 conference is being held in Barcelona and ends...

Self Driving Cars: Are They Safe?

Self Driving Cars: Are They Safe?

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | February 10, 2017

Self driving cars are the future of transportation, no doubt about it; current car companies are jumping into the pool of self driving vehicles every day, and new companies focused solely on the self...

President Trumps Promised Muslim Ban

President Trump’s Promised “Muslim Ban”

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | February 1, 2017

 President Trump made an executive order this weekend that all people traveling to the U.S. from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia, all Muslim majority countries, will not be granted...

CES 2017: The Future is Now

CES 2017: The Future is Now

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | January 19, 2017

The Consumer Electronics Show is an annual convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada that showcases the technology world’s latest and greatest gadgets for the new year. The platform has grown to become very...

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Black Friday Madness

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | November 30, 2016

Every year Black Friday brings a wave of violence over material possessions. While some wait for Cyber Monday, many crazed Americans leave their Thanksgivings table to fight for their Christmas presents...

A Probable Vine Shutdown

A Probable Vine Shutdown

Brendan Bellingham, Staff Writer | November 14, 2016

 Yes, it’s true the beloved 6 second video platform may be “shut down in the coming months.” The news broke out  on Vine’s Medium page last month in a post entitled “Important News About Vine.”...

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