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On Texas Standard: what to do with old gadgets and a segment on Facebook’s facial-recognition controversy
This week on the “Texas Standard” radio show, our tech segment is about all the ways you can re-use, resell or recycle your old tech gear. Inspired by our recent story about Apple’s new Daisy iPhone-recycling machine, we talked about what to do with...
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The reason for all those privacy policy and terms of service update emails
Glancing over my email inbox the last month or so, one thing is clear: a lot of tech companies are updating their Terms of Service and/or their Privacy Policy and letting us, the users, know about it. It’s not just social-media companies such as Facebook...
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15 moments that have defined Austin’s Rooster Teeth
It all started with a funny web video posted on April Fool’s Day in 2003. A group of friends put together their own scripted dialogue with the video game “Halo: Combat Evolved” to animate a snarky meta commentary on basic Marines-in-space gaming tropes...
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Three questions to ask yourself before you buy wireless headphones
As the race to take away headphone ports on smart phones continues, you may still be thinking about switching from wired to wireless headphones, especially if there’s a phone upgrade in your future. Before you commit to a set of cans or earbuds, especially...
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Apple’s new recycle robot, Daisy, calls Austin home
If you’ve ever broken an iPhone screen, dealt with a drained-of-life iPhone battery or unsuccessfully tried to rescue an iPhone from ocean water, the gigantic pile of dead devices might feel a little haunting. They sit in a rose gold, space gray,...
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Austin Game Conference sitting out 2018; Game Leadership Summit coming in September
In September, Austin will be missing one of its key videogaming-focused conferences. But another one, more focused on the management of game companies, will be taking its place. The Austin Game Conference, which made a return to Austin in 2016 and...
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Talking with Texas Standard about Apple Pay’s big (and possibly annoying) push
This week on the “Texas Standard” radio program, we talked about why Apple has been so aggressive of late pushing its Apple Pay digital wallet platform, to the point that some users are trying to figure out ways to get rid of an alert badge that it...
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Friday Tech Crawl: Backpage CEO faces charges, phone security woes and what’s a computer, really?
Happy Friday, Austin! Here are some of the tech stories we’re following Backpage.com pleads guilty in human trafficking In case you missed it yesterday, the company behind classified ads site Backpage.com has pleaded guilty to charges of human trafficking...
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Pilot program to help blind and visually impaired Cap Metro riders could eventually go citywide
An executive for the Paris-based company Connecthings says that a pilot program it started last month with Capital Metro to provide real-time bus information to the blind and visually impaired in Austin is going well and that he hopes it will expand...
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Friday Tech Crawl: more Facebook fallout, Trump’s Amazon grudge and ‘Legion’ stars on Tinder
Good Friday morning, Austin! Here are some of the tech stories we’re reading this morning. Facebook keeps stepping in it Facebook has been on the ropes of late over its Cambridge Analytica data snafu, but that hasn’t kept it from making moves that...
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