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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tobe Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror masterpiece—a gruesome, chilling exploration of why you shouldn’t poke around other people’s property, especially in rural Texas. It’s a story other filmmakers haven’t been able to resist revisiting, with diminishing returns. The latest example of this hits… Read more.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Apparently, Texas’ energy grid is not only ill-equipped to handle cold weather. The increasingly ironically named Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is now asking customers to conserve electricity through Friday as hot weather grips the state ( and much of the… Read more. It’s also incapable of withstanding heat.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As at least seven states push for limits on how school curricula discuss LGBTQ topics and gender and sexuality, Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues adding fuel to the fire with a new political call that jeopardizes the safety of transgender children in his home state. It's unclear how the directive will be enforced in practice.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 11, 2021

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) predicted this week that the system will see peak highs in energy use this week, topping out at a possible 74,034 megawatts on Wednesday. It’s not super likely that consumers will see problems—but given the state of the grid and the… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Tobe Hooper’s 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror masterpiece. His 1986 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a horror comedy masterpiece. With another Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot due next year, we decided it was time to sift through the bones and revisit the rest. The rest of the series ain’t so great. Are they… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Residents of a town just north of Dallas, Texas were awoken in the middle of a cold night this week to what sounded like a volley of gunshots outside their home. When they finally made their way outdoors, the residents learned those shocking sounds didn’t actually originate from firearms but were rather the result of… Read more.

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MARCH 4, 2021

A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the state’s grid sputtered last month, leading to dozens of deaths and utility bills Texans will be paying for decades , has been fired. On Wednesday night, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) CEO… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 6, 2022

The Attorney General seems to want his new-ish constituent, Elon Musk, to like him so bad, he’ll use all the legal resources of Texas to gain favor. Ken Paxton apparently loves the taste of billionaire boots. Read more.

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JUNE 2, 2022

The Texas law that seeks to stop companies from being mean to fossil fuels is getting popular—even if its execution and implications are still murky. States across the country are looking at adopting similar bills to one passed in Texas that forbids the state from doing business with any institutions that “boycott”… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everything’s bigger in Texas—including problems with its electric grid and energy demand for bitcoin. A new analysis shows that the electric grid is just as vulnerable to crisis as it was before February’s blackouts just as the state is gearing up to welcome cryptocurrency operations that will add an enormous amount… Read more.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court temporarily ruled in favor of Gov. Greg Abbott and his ban on mask mandates in the state on Sunday, according to a new report from the Texas Tribune. The ruling comes as Texas struggles with the delta variant of covid-19, which has caused infections to skyrocket in recent weeks, primarily among… Read more.

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JULY 12, 2022

Crypto mining operations in Texas are tugging at their collars, now finding a reason to sweat other than the lingering crypto bear market. Temperatures in Texas are expected to go well over 100 degrees this week, and the lone star state’s electricity system kindly asked big energy users to kindly hop off the grid for… Read more.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages , has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for “false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and marketing practices” that he… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will make Texas the number one state for bitcoin. What’s more, he espoused the wonders of crypto mining as a way to prop up the state’s flailing electrical grid , a view Cancun-loving Sen. Ted Cruz also shared at a bitcoin mining conference last week. It’s a seductive story:… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Noted tax-lover Elon Musk is the latest entrant in Texas’ Wild West energy market. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is now officially licensed to sell electricity to retail customers in the state through a company called Tesla Energy Ventures. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As the world turns, another Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel arrives, doing its best to recapture the grim, grimy magic wrought by the 1974 horror classic. But the next entry in the series , which arrives on Netflix in February, borrows a page from the current Halloween films by billing itself as a direct sequel to Tobe… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Folks across Texas are receiving outrageous energy bills in the wake of widespread utility shutoffs during last week’s cold snap. Thankfully, state officials issued some stopgap measures on Sunday to protect them from those ridiculous financial burdens. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Texas company allegedly responsible for spilling hundreds of gallons of oil near Huntington Beach, California, in October is facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury indicted Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp. and two of its subsidiaries this week, charging them with a single misdemeanor count of illegally… Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Two tornadoes touched down in Bell County, Texas Monday evening, injuring 23 people and hospitalizing 12, one with critical injuries. The more damaging of the tornadoes was on the ground for an eye-popping seven miles, striking Salado, Texas, a town about midway between Austin and Waco on Interstate 35. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it’s real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s been nearly four months since the devastating Texas blackouts. And thanks to a relatively speedy peer review process, we now have an academic accounting of what exactly went wrong—and how to prepare the grid for future extreme weather. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 12, 2021

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), which oversees the Texas Highway Patrol and the state’s (in)famous Texas Ranger Division , said this week it has finally halted the discredited hypnosis techniques it used to provide evidence in criminal investigations since at least the start of the 1980s. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 2, 2021

But now Texas Instruments is introducing a new TI-84 graphing calculator that supports programming in Python. Graphing calculators have always been a fun way to get started with programming, though mostly in the form of games and cheat sheets. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 29, 2021

Getting to the bottom of last month’s deadly Texas blackouts will take time and careful research. But the state’s grid operator is making it tough to get answers. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have in… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 6, 2022

Buckle up, Texas. Your Mother’s Day weekend could get sweaty—and you might want to prepare for your power to be on the fritz, too. The state is one of more than a dozen across the U.S. set to see potentially record-breaking temperatures during an extensive heatwave this weekend. Read more.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

health officials have reported the country’s first death attributed to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus—a man in his 50s from Texas. The man was unvaccinated but had previously survived a covid-19 infection; he also had underlying health conditions. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2022

Tesla plants in Germany and Texas are burning money. Not literally of course, but these factories are losing “billions of dollars,” according to CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Oracle is relocating its California-based headquarters to Austin, Texas, making it the latest tech company to decamp from Silicon Valley. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reportedly gearing up to permanently decamp to Texas in an effort to take advantage of the Lone Star State’s lack of personal income taxes. Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A Texas woman filed a class-action lawsuit this week to the tune of $1 billion in damages against Griddy, a Texas electricity retailer that the suit alleges engaged in illegal price gouging during the widespread outages that swept through the state last week. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 23, 2022

Laws surrounding the first amendment are oftentimes messy as exampled by Texas' controversial internet anti-censorship law, House Bill 20.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas’ blackouts were, experts agree, the result of multiple failures in the energy system, including failures of oil and gas infrastructure. Yet in late March, one of Texas’s most powerful oil and gas regulators, Christi Craddick, told the Texas legislature that oil and gas operators “were not the problem.”

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 19, 2022

Stop me if you’ve heard this setup before: Temperatures are expected to plummet in Texas as snow and ice descend on the state. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 9, 2022

The city of Amarillo, Texas has asked the public for help identifying a weird animal-like figure that was seen on security cameras outside the Amarillo Zoo last month. The official City of Amarillo Facebook page has turned up lots of guesses, but no one knows for sure what the seemingly bipedal cryptid could be. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 5, 2022

The declining status of some tiny birds in Texas could spell bad news for Elon Musk and his planned expansion at the SpaceX Boca Chica launch facility. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 18, 2022

The post details how a Texas judge found… Read more. “Midland County judge ‘pardons’ jaywalking puppy,” the headline reads, with a photo of a startled-looking Pomeranian behind a microphone, seemingly on a witness stand.

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