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Texas boffins come up with new cooling material for data centres
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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
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Wednesday, 31 July 2024 11:21

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"
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023 10:44

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
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Friday, 10 March 2023 10:27

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
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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
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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
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Because citadels historically work well in Texas

Texas governor candidate Don Huffines said he is "committed to making Texas the citadel for bitcoin and has released a plan detailing the effort.

Google tells Texas judge to throw out anti-trust law suit
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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"
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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
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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.