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Mark Cuban Got Creative to Showcase His App Fireside at a Podcast Convention in Dallas

Mark Cuban Got Creative to Showcase His App Fireside at a Podcast Convention in Dallas

GOP Lawmaker Pushes Social Media Ban for Texas Minors

GOP Lawmaker Pushes Social Media Ban for Texas Minors

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Would You Take Your Salary in Cryptocurrency? Some Did and Lost Big.

By Jacob Vaughn
Jun 23, 2022

Some workers say they would like to get paid in cryptocurrency and receive non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as performance rewards.
Breach Exposes Personal Data, Including Social Security Numbers, of 1.8 Million Texans

By Jacob Vaughn
May 18, 2022

Personal data like social security numbers kept by the Texas Department of Insurance were open to the public for nearly three years.
The Esports Behemoth DreamHack Returns to Its Live Form in June

By Danny Gallagher
May 10, 2022

The first DreamHack tournament scored some serious points with gamers and the city when it moved from Austin to Dallas at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in 2019.
Schoolcraft: How Dallas Independent School District Students Are Learning in the Metaverse

By Jacob Vaughn
Mar 9, 2022

After remote education stunted learning, Dallas Independent School District teamed up with local software company STEMuli Technology to turn schooling into a video game.
They're Not Farts in a Jar, But North Texans Are Joining the Trend by Selling All Sorts of NFTs

By Malen Blackmon
Feb 15, 2022

The greatest digital trend of 2021, NFTs, might just be here to stay. The sale of digital cartoon images, exclusive content, art, tweets, old pictures and an array of other digital content purchased and stored on the blockchain amounted to a total of nearly $25 billion
How Can Magic Still Work in This Digital, Touchscreen, Pixelated Age?

By Danny Gallagher
Feb 2, 2022

The last of sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke's three laws states, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That doesn't mean magic can't exist in our digital realm of interactive technology and readily accessible information, local magician Zak Mirz says. "I don't think technology ruins magic with any stretch...
Red Dead Redemption Gamers Are Trying To '#SaveRedDeadOnline'

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 13, 2022

Red Dead Online players are begging Rockstar Games for some fresh content.
Ransomware Attack Affects More Than 2,400 City of Dallas Employees

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 17, 2021

About 2,400 City of Dallas hourly employees are caught in the crossfire of a recent ransomware attack on one of the largest human resources companies: Kronos.
The Crow Museum's Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia Takes a Cultural Deep Dive

By Paige Weaver
Oct 1, 2021

On Sept. 25, Dallas' Crow Museum of Asian Art premiered the U.S. opening of the 2017 exhibition Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, a moving image installation by Ho Tzu Nyen that questions widespread (mis)conceptions viewers may have about Southeast Asia.
Dallas Journalist Barrett Brown Went to the U.K. Now, He Wants Asylum.

By Simone Carter
Sep 15, 2021

To a great extent, Barrett Brown is fueled by cheap tobacco and vengeance. The embattled journalist wants to inflict as much damage as possible on America, and recently, he’s broadened his scope to include the United Kingdom. There, Brown is attempting to claim asylum, largely because he says he’s been...
7 Services in Dallas to Help You Live Your Best, Lazy Life

By Brittany Nunn
Jun 25, 2021

You work hard and life comes at you fast. Sometimes you just need a little extra help wrangling your seemingly ever-growing to-do list.
New Dating App Called UnFiltered Only Lets You Show Your Real Self

By Danny Gallagher
Jun 23, 2021

One change that comes from the waning days of the pandemic is that our dating life is no longer confined to phone conversations or screen calls that feel like we're in some kind of maximum security prison. We can and should actually meet the people we're interested in dating now.
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.
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.
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)...
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.
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 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...
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 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.)...

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