Texas boffins come up with new cooling material for data centres
Its all about the thermal paste
Boffins at the University of Texas have taken time from their busy schedule of rounding up cattle to invent a new thermal interface material (TIM) that significantly outperforms existing liquid metal solutions in heat dissipation.
Meta pays Texas $1.4 billion
Will make privacy charge go away
Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit claiming the company used personal biometric data without user consent.
Google charged with "lying to Texans"
That's a shoot'n
Google has agreed to an $8 million settlement with Texas over deceptive ads for its Pixel 4 smartphone, in which radio DJs were hired to provide testimonials without being given the phone to use.
Musk wants to build utopia in Texas
Tire fire of the vanities
Not content with destroying Twitter, CEO Elon [look at me] Musk has found another shiny object to distract him from making money.
Musk tries to move long running trial to Texas
Thinks the people of San Francisco might hate him
Supreme Twit Elon [look at me] Musk has asked a federal judge in a long running case against him to move a trial from San Francisco to Texas because he thinks the local media has made people hate him.
Supremes block Texas social media law for now
Waiting to see what the lower courts think
A Texas social media law, which was designed to allow white right wingers to fill the interwebs with their unique brand of hate has been blocked by the US Supreme Court at least for now.
Texas wants to make itself a citadel for bitcoin
Google tells Texas judge to throw out anti-trust law suit
No proof of doing someone wrong
Alphabet's Google asked a federal judge to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market.
Texas judge orders the FDA to release the Pfizer vaccine data "early"
We can’t wait 75 years because of lack of bandwidth
A federal judge in Texas ordered the Food and Drug Administration to publicise the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine,
Texas about to stuff up its power grid for cryptocurrency miners
At this rate the Mexicans will not want it back
Texas, which has one of the most dodgy power grids in the US, is about to be hit by a surge in demand for electricity that's twice the size of Austin's as part of local government policy.