Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you live or drive in Austin, Texas, you might start seeing some new-looking Teslas on your roads later this summer. Instead, the easygoing authorities in Texas provide a far more attractive environment when it comes to putting driverless rubber on the road.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A Texas grand jury has indicted Netflix on charges of child pornography-related charges. Specifically, the streaming giant is charged with "Promotion Of Lewd Visual Material Depicting A Child," a Texas law passed in 2018. The dustup is over the controversial film Cuties.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Meta over its use of facial recognition. The lawsuit, filed today in state district court , claims Meta’s Facebook photo tagging system violated the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit, which claims Google is violating a 2009 Texas biometric law that requires companies to receive advanced, informed consent before collecting biometric data, including fingerprints, voices, and records of people's "face geometry."

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

But those powerful proponents have struggled to pass a law in the seven legislative sessions since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 struck down a federal law that banned commercial sports betting in most states. A proposal to legalize sports betting passed the Texas House in 2023, but the state Senate spurned the proposal.

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TechSpot

MAY 8, 2024

It enables law enforcement to essentially detect any Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals in the area and log the unique identifiers broadcast by those devices, according to publicly available contract data uncovered by the news outlet NOTUS. The technology, called TraffiCatch, comes from a German company called Jenoptik. By combining that.

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TechSpot

JUNE 21, 2022

Reuters writes that the employees from its Sparks, Nevada, Gigafactory filed the suit in Texas on Sunday. It states that 500 employees were terminated from the factory without giving a 60-day notice period—a violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Law enforcement officials across multiple cities have warned about fraudulent QR codes plastered at parking stations. Here are a few tips to avoid such scams.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

As Tesla made its first public pitch to bring its Cybertruck factory to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, the company faced concerns from citizens about its treatment of workers, the proposal’s impact on the local housing crisis, the need to give the automaker tax breaks, and most of all, CEO Elon Musk. Photos by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. Greg Abbott.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Though both focus on the building industry (specifically, the codes architects and builders need to follow), the lawsuit deals with an issue that has wider ramifications: is it possible to copyright the law, or text that carries the weight of the law? ” Can the law be copyrighted?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

“The models are not failing,” says Maria De-Arteaga, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. California recently passed a law requiring AI literacy to be incorporated into K-12 curricula starting this fall.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 3, 2024

After Louisiana brought in age verification laws in early 2023, Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia, and Texas introduced similar versions. Montana and North Carolina are the latest to demand websites confirm visitors' ages via ID verification, and Pornhub's parent Aylo – formerly called MindGeek – isn't happy about it.

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TechSpot

MARCH 3, 2021

As reported by Bloomberg Law, a jury in Waco, Texas, ruled that Intel must pay $1.5 billion for infringement of one patent and $675 million for the second. Tom's Hardware tracked down the processor-related patents in question, finding that the '759 patent' describes clock speed management, and the '373 patent'.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Districts in California , Texas , Minnesota , and Missouri have said they plan to close down Friday in response, according to the districts and local media reports. A number of districts and law enforcement divisions say they’ve looked into it and don’t view the threats as credible or even real.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Four Democratic members of Congress are calling for an investigation into whether an alleged secret 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook concerning digital advertising violated federal antitrust law. Still, the specific allegations in the Texas case have been enough to spark further action.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

They used to be $2,700 before a law was passed by the state of Texas in 2017. This is because, technically, the boxes (and the utility poles that go along with them) are installed on the right-of-way , which is land owned by the county. The permits to place the equipment are dirt cheap to telecoms, only costing $300.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

And it coincides with Tesla coming under increased scrutiny after a Tesla vehicle without anyone in the driver’s seat crashed in Texas, killing two men. The latest took place in Spring, Texas , in which two men were killed after their Tesla smashed into a tree. Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ”.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

APRIL 5, 2019

Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. They just celebrated over 20 years of advocating for Texas families. Let’s start of with a little bit more background about Texas Watch! Texas Watch works to ensure that insurance companies and other major corporations are accountable to their customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The Harvard Law School graduate didn’t have to start her company, which helps businesses measure the efficacy of their diversity and inclusion efforts using hard data, but she needed to start the company. For Price, the drive to launch Kanarys came from her own experiences working in law.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

It argues that Netflix and Hulu — along with satellite providers Dish Network and DirecTV, as well as Disney’s entertainment distribution division — violated a 2007 law called the Georgia Consumer Choice for Television Act. Franchise fee claims — all based on different local laws — remain mostly untested in court.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In November, TechCrunch detailed the fallout between Mary Awodele, the founder of the Texas-based MTBF, and her students. She also hired a Texas-based lawyer, Kim Daily , and brought on Curt Bender , a Florida attorney who is consulting for MTBF. Bender said this is due to FIC’s engagement terms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Keep these labor laws and tax guidelines in mind What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit Trends indicate that a majority of businesses plan to fully adopt software as a service (SaaS) by 2025, and if the past is any indicator, that means state legislatures are working hard to capture revenue from this new sales stream.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” They cover the ins and outs of family law and prenups, and what to know before you tie the knot and pursue the green card process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

The startup has active commercial pilots today with FedEx , Uber Freight and, most recently, Werner Enterprises — all three of which involve hauling freight autonomously in Texas, but it’s not yet clear if the company is currently using Beacon with those clients.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket on the launchpad at Starbase in Texas | Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images. SpaceX first purchased land in Boca Chica, Texas, in 2012 , with the intention of creating a facility to launch its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

It now sells to customers in Texas, which has not legalized recreational cannabis, and is using its existing franchise locations as delivery hubs. In 2023, Washington State created a new law that said any product containing THC is considered cannabis and must be sold in licensed dispensaries.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

November 19, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – Cloud for Good, alongside the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) and Dallas College, today announced a partnership to provide an apprenticeship pathway to jobs in the Salesforce ecosystem for new and recent graduates. About University of North Texas at Dallas. www.cloud4good.com.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The new case is filed only in the federal court for the Western District of Texas — an emerging patent lawsuit hotspot — and represents a more aggressive approach from Sonos. “We That’s why we went to the ITC and now Texas — to shorten the process and get resolution as quickly as possible.” (To

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” At the Texas Service Center, it can take two to 13 months. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2009

A few days ago, Representative Kay Granger of Texas and Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island introduced HR 1189, Colorectal Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Act of 2009 and we’re doing everything we can through our Cover Your Butt campaign to get this legislation off the ground. i do not have health insurance.i

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It also started out as a secret, with the police department paying for it not with city funds, which would be subject to public scrutiny, but with funding from two Texas billionaires. The ACLU, on the other hand, isn’t planning to give up.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The suit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia refers to last year’s House Judiciary report that examined whether the practices of Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook violated antitrust laws. “As

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The city of Baltimore’s spy plane program was unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search, and law enforcement in the city cannot use any of the data it gathered, a court ruled Thursday. The AIR program was run by a company called Persistent Surveillance Systems with funding from two Texas billionaires.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

The policy says TikTok will seek consent from users before collecting this information, but only when it is required to do so by the law. As TechCrunch notes, this doesn’t mean an awful lot in the US, given that only a few states (including Illinois, Texas, and California) offer these sorts of legal protections.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the weeks since that announcement, I've spoken to some of the country's leading corporate law experts to gain a better understanding of OpenAI's plan, and, more importantly, what it might mean for its mission to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law. As of 2022 , 68.2

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Care2

MAY 25, 2012

For example, when the Center for Reproductive Rights was supporting the case against Texas's mandatory ultrasound law (which was a big news story), they launched a New Yorker Style Cartoon Caption Contest and asked people to submit a caption for the cartoon they designed about the outrageous law.

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