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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

Photo: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News] Were going to fight this thing until the end, said Bobby Gutierrez, the mayor of Bryan. Five years ago, San Antonio started pumping up to 49 million gallons per day through a 140-mile pipeline from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer. A trial is set for the first week of May. It stops it.

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Melbourne-based mobile ordering platform Mr Yum lands $65M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum began pitching its mobile ordering platform to businesses before the pandemic, but the pandemic has accelerated adoption. Returning investors included TEN13 and AirTree.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

NonProfit Hub

Please—you were an early adopter. At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity. Snapchat is an instant messaging app for photos. And Twitter?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

Photo illustration by William Joel | Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. There was this photo that went around of you in these old Jordans outside playing basketball. And California has adopted a version of that. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme. And they feel very strongly about it.