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Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

Engadget

Texas is the latest state to adopt an age-verification law for app stores. The sponsors of the Texas bill said it was intended to protect children and teens from inappropriate content. "This The sponsors of the Texas bill said it was intended to protect children and teens from inappropriate content. "This

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. In the near term, only import projects from freshwater aquifers will continue to meet the growing water demands of thirsty Texas cities.

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Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride

Ars Technica

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two leading toothpaste makers over their use of fluoride, suggesting that they are "illegally marketing" the teeth cleaners to parents and kids "in ways that are misleading, deceptive, and dangerous." which makes Crest toothpastes.

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What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plants

Ars Technica

The plant would be big enough to power a major city, with 1,200 megawatts of planned generation capacity fueled by West Texas shale gas. On the old ranch across the street, developers want to build an expansive complex of supercomputers for artificial intelligence, plus a large, private power plant to run it.

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“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

Ars Technica

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback on Thursday, as a US senator questioned the expense of carrying out what he described as a theft. This is not a transfer. It's a heist ," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) In April, Republican Sens.

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New Texas law says Apple and Google must now verify ages of app store users

Fast Company Tech

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill requiring Apple and Alphabet’s Google to verify the age of users of their app stores , putting the second-most-populous U.S. Another Texas bill, passed in the state’s House of Representatives and awaiting a Senate vote, would restrict social media apps to users over 18.

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A child psychologist unpacks collective grief after the Texas flood tragedy

Fast Company Tech

In the early morning hours of high summer’s holiday, July 4, a Southern summer camp became the site of tragedy: At Camp Mystic in Central Texas, flash flooding from a rapidly rising Guadalupe River claimed the lives of 27 people, many of them young girls. Among them were eight-year-old twin sisters.

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