Technology

Personal data like social security numbers kept by the Texas Department of Insurance were open to the public for nearly three years.

Dallas plans to offer Zume, a Silicon Valley tech startup, more than $5 million in tax incentives to open a manufacturing hub. The company, once valued at more than $2 billion, has come on hard times after failing to deliver on its early promise of robotic pizza delivery. The city…

As tension between the U.S. and Iran turns into conflict, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned the public Tuesday about Iranian cyberattacks on Texas’ state agencies. Over the last 48 hours, the governor said, more than 10,000 attacks per minute, many of them originating in Iran, have been attempted against the…

Landlords have long complained that red tape prevents them from accepting federal housing vouchers, limiting the places that low-income tenants can live. Those in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods tend to turn voucher-holders away, driving segregation. One bureaucratic slowdown that has particularly frustrated landlords is how long it can take for inspectors from…

In November, two Volvo SUVs equipped with LIDAR laser sensor technology and two Uber technicians per vehicle will begin driving Dallas streets to map them.

The air above Dallas is now home to a 5G network, AT&T announced Tuesday. You can’t use it though, at least until Friday and probably not until spring at the earliest. Dallas and 11 other cities got the speedy, mobile hookup yesterday. The first device capable of using the new…

Amazon and FedEx are beefing up seasonal hires in North Texas as the holiday season approaches. Amazon is looking to hire 3,000 new warehouse workers in DFW, according to the corporation, while FedEx is hiring 50,000 seasonal employees across the country, 4,200 of them in DFW, the company announced this…

Since about 10 a.m. Monday, AT&T internet service in Dallas has suffered from widespread outages, according to the company and user reports on downdetector.com. An AT&T spokesperson told the Observer that a fire caused the outage, but declined to provide any further details or say when service might be restored. “Damage…

The West End is about to get its latest infusion of innovation. It will soon be home to a smart park, serve as the focal point of a case study for smart city technology and connect to Victory Park via a newly illuminated path. The developments are all happening in…

Beginning Saturday, riding Dallas Area Rapid Transit is going to be a little bit more expensive. Day passes are going up $1, monthly passes are going up $16 and DART’s two-hour pass is going away. The bump isn’t all bad news, though, as the transit system is also set to…

Pretty soon, Frisco drivers will be heard uttering phrases like, “Holy #*$&! There ain’t nobody driving that car!” and “Are ghosts real because I think one is driving that orange van!” The city of Frisco inked a deal with the California-based tech company Drive.ai to test a new driveless car…

Bikes, first silver and mustard, then orange, green and yellow, swarmed downtown Dallas this summer before spreading out. The basics are all the same: Bikes cost $1 per hour to ride, payable via a smartphone app. After a rider pays, a hefty security device unlocks, freeing the bike’s back wheel…

One of the most important items in technology history is up for sale in Dallas next week. On Nov. 4, Dallas’ Heritage Auctions will sell a early prototype of the world’s first microchip. The minimum bid is set at $350,000. Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby designed the first microchip, then…

A unique airplane called the Cosmic Girl landed at Texas State Technical College’s airport in Waco earlier this year and parked inside one of the big hangars there. When it rolled out months later, the airplane was ready to launch a space rocket from under one wing while flying at…

Starting today, flyers at Love Field have the option of skipping to the front of the airport’s security lines, bypassing fellow travelers and the TSA agents responsible for making sure passengers’ identification is valid and matches their boarding passes. All those who want the privilege of being first in line…

You know you’re witnessing a particular kind of aviation history when the models show up. A pair of them in jean shorts and cowboy hats stalked the flight line at Addison Airport, hired to be eye candy for the photographers chronicling the North Texas visit of a vintage DC-3 airplane. Few airplanes deserve…

Robots are walking, crawling and flying into the future. And Dallas has opened the doors of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center to them for Xponential, a three-day event put on by the Association of Unmanned Vehicles International. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich entered the stage for the event’s first keynote…

Nearly 2 billion people across the globe log into Facebook for everything from avocado toast recipes to marketing their businesses. Moving all that information requires some serious hardware, and the social media giant has just opened the first building of Facebook’s largest data storage facility to date. “To some extent…

In the world of lawn care, one robot in Dallas rises to the level of celebrity. That’s the Spider ILD02. On Thursday it drew a small crowd of gawkers, mostly parks department employees, while cutting the grass near Reverchon Park. The North Texas Tollway Authority uses the remote controlled robot…

For Bell Helicopter, this week’s Heli-Expo 2017 conference was a chance to use some home field advantage. That included a large presence at the Dallas Convention Center, several solid sales announcements and, best of all, flights for media and prospective buyers from the Dallas Vertiport downtown. Bell, headquartered in Fort Worth,…