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A new social media app wants to get you off the phone and out of the house by showing you how "popping" places are around you.

The Black Creators of a New Social Media App Want to Get You Off the Couch

By Malen Blackmon

Jun 10, 2021

A small team of young, ambitious and mostly first-generation African Americans recently set out to solve a couple of constant problems in their lives: trying to find things to do and going to social events that end up being a waste of money. Less than a year after starting the app development process, the team is gearing up for the launch of their new social media app, Videloo, this fall.

In a recent court filing by Dominion lawyers, it is now alleged that Powell has been taking money from her nonprofit to pay for personal legal expenses.

Dallas QAnon Convention to Pump Proceeds into Sidney Powell's Pro-Trump Nonprofit

By Jacob Vaughn

May 18, 2021

Even though the election is done, Joe Biden is president and all the significant court challenges to his victory have been dismissed, the legal defense fund continues to raise money, now with help from the organizers of the Q convention in Dallas.

What bands looked like in 2020. Clockwise from the top left: Remy Reilly, Ryan Berg, Camden Gonzales, Luke Callaway and Patrick Smith.

Does Facebook's New Soundbite Feature Actually Help Musicians?

By Raven Jordan

May 3, 2021

Your Facebook menu will be getting a lot more crowded. New audio tools and monetization for creators — lamely called "Soundbites" — will be available soon through Facebook and Messenger. Like the copycats social media platforms Facebook and Twitter are known to be, (first Snapchat-style stories, then “reels” mimicking TikTok)...

Social gatherings and holiday travel around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s correspond with spikes in COVID-19 deaths.

COVID-19 Is the Leading Cause of Death in Dallas County

By Jacob Vaughn

Mar 26, 2021

By March 21 this year, 3,763 people suffered pandemic-related deaths. This number surpasses the estimated amount of deaths due to heart disease (3,668), cancer (3,356) and strokes (1,015) during the same time span.

It's not entirely certain when the state's power grid will be completely stable.

Lights Out: Texans Scramble to Stay Warm Amid Widespread Power Outages

By Jacob Vaughn

Feb 17, 2021

ERCOT initially said that people should expect rolling power outages through Monday and possibly Tuesday, but many Texans are still without electricity.

Dallas has begun a new era of data-driven crime targeting in neighborhoods.

Dallas Takes Up a New Tool to Map Crime Risk, but Reformers Worry It'll Reproduce Old Biases

By Steven Monacelli

Nov 18, 2020

In 2013, the Arlington Police Department began experimenting with a then-novel way of looking at crime. With money from a National Institute of Justice grant and in partnership with academic criminologists, Arlington used Risk Terrain Modeling, a data analysis tool, to combine existing crime reports with geographic information in hope...

Residents of a southeast Dallas neighborhood live with a 100-foot mountain of shingles that they've been trying to get rid of for years.

Southern Sector Rising's Update On Shingle Mountain Is Zoom Bombed by Porn, Slurs

By Jacob Vaughn

Nov 13, 2020

In their efforts to remove Shingle Mountain, the result of Dallas' racist zoning practices, activists are faced with more racism.

Dallas County continued to ramp up COVID-19-related restrictions over the weekend.

Dallas County COVID-19 Page Is Lousy, Funky, Hard to Use and no Surprise

By Jim Schutze

Apr 9, 2020

Local officials here are doing a lousy job providing us information about the pandemic. The Dallas County Health Department COVID-19 webpage looks like a DOS-based jigsaw puzzle from the 1990s. You don’t know what DOS was, right? My point exactly. (It was an early and now primitive computer operating system.)...

Thanks to a deal reached Thursday, Luka Doncic and the rest of the Mavs, Stars and Rangers still have a home on YouTube TV.

False Alarm: Rangers, Stars, Mavs Games to Stay on YouTube TV

By Stephen Young

Mar 6, 2020

The waiting, always the hardest part, is over for Dallas sports fans. On Thursday, YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, five days removed from an emergency extension that kept Fox Sports Southwest on the streaming service, agreed to a long-term contract extension. That means local broadcasts of the Mavericks, Stars...

Gonna be a little harder for Rangers fans to find Joey Gallo's smiling face on their TVs in 2020.

Dallas YouTube TV Subscribers Hit With Sports Blackout

By Stephen Young

Feb 28, 2020

The notices began filing into YouTube TV's subscribers' inboxes Thursday morning, just after, or just before, the streaming TV service sent out a preemptive tweet. "Starting February 29, 2020," the email's third paragraph read, "you will no longer be able to watch live, on demand, or recorded content from your...

Dallas Wants to Give Millions in Tax Breaks to a Failing Pizza Delivery Startup

By Lucas Manfield

Jan 17, 2020

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 Abbott Reconvenes Domestic Terrorism Task Force, Talk Turns to Iran

By Stephen Young

Jan 8, 2020

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...

Dallas Housing Authority's headquarters in West Dallas

Dallas Housing Authority Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Wait Times, and Could Profit Off the Technology

By Lucas Manfield

Nov 8, 2019

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...

Heritage Auctions' international headquarters in the Oak Lawn neighborhood of Dallas

Cyberattack Takes Dallas’ Heritage Auctions Offline

By Lucas Manfield

Oct 23, 2019

Heritage Auctions, a Dallas-based auction house, was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday that took its website offline through the weekend. Many auctions were rescheduled and some Friday bids were lost, but customer data was not leaked, according to updates posted on the company’s website. The website was back...

Dallas ISD students competed at an esports tournament in Arlington. The district plans to begin rolling out the program to more schools later this month.

Esports May Be Coming to Dallas Schools

By Lucas Manfield

Oct 16, 2019

Teams from schools across Collin and Dallas counties met up last weekend to play in front of a screaming crowd at a stadium in the shadow of Globe Life Park in Arlington. They were playing Nintendo. Mixed into the crowd were parents, classmates, coaches and district administrators. This tournament, they...

Uber's self-driving cars have a LiDAR laser sensor system on top that allows them to assess the surroundings.

Self-Driving Cars Coming to Dallas. Sort Of.

By Meredith Lawrence

Oct 10, 2019

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.

University of Texas at Dallas students Adam Aker and Daniel Kiv hold up a prototype of the device.

Dallas Closer to Fulfilling Promise of Monitoring Neighborhood Air Pollution

By Lucas Manfield

Oct 7, 2019

When Marsha Jackson moved to the red-brick home in southern Dallas over two decades ago, her daughter was overjoyed to have a pasture to keep her horses. But since an industrial recycling plant opened up next door at the beginning of last year, the clear stream and fresh air are...

Many Era residents say wind turbines would hurt the community.

Wind Farm Proposal Divides Ranch Community

By Meredith Lawrence

Sep 10, 2019

A wind farm proposal is dividing a quiet, rural community. Residents who oppose the wind farm say that the companies tactics have been misleading and don't properly take into account the impact the towers would have on the community.

Ted Cruz Doesn’t Get Global Warming or Twitter

By Stephen Young

Sep 6, 2019

CNN hosted a series of climate-focused town halls Wednesday, starring 10 Democratic presidential candidates. You're forgiven if you didn't tune in. The forums ran seven hours, were moderated by CNN's less-than-stellar anchor staff and had way more talk about banning plastic straws than anyone needs to listen to. One person...

Uber is getting 10 years and $36 million worth of incentives to move into Deep Ellum.

Uber Sticks Out its Hand, Dallas Fills It With Incentive Cash

By Stephen Young

Aug 21, 2019

Dallas didn't get left at the altar this time. After nine months of licking its Amazon-inflicted wounds, the city landed its own big-tech big fish, thanks to nearly $36 million in economic incentives from the city, county and state. Tuesday, Dallas County Commissioners approved the final piece of the incentive...

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