Solugen, a startup that has set itself up with no less lofty a goal than the decarbonization of a massive chunk of the petrochemical industry, may be the first legitimate multi-million dollar company to start out in a meth lab. When company co-founders Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt began hunting for a lab to test […]
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Meet Shuttle, the company that’s building a booking agent for spaceflight
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24 year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes, grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the Internet […]
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Aclima, a San Francisco-based startup building Internet-connected air quality sensors has announced plans to integrate its mobile sensing platform into Google’s global fleet of Street View vehicles. Google uses the Street View cars to map the land for Google Maps. Starting with 50 cars in Houston, Mexico City and Sydney, Aclima will capture air quality […]
View More Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check our air quality with these sensorsTMGcore is running high-efficiency crypto mines in Texas
Out on the plains of East Texas, not far from Dallas, a company called TMGcore is mining crypto. The company, funded to the tune of $70 million, will be mining multiple cryptocurrencies and is using some unique technology to ensure that it doesn’t eat up an entire city’s worth of energy. “TMGcore will be one […]
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The shooting that killed 10 at a school in Santa Fe, Tex. on Friday has once again brought up America’s need for gun control and growing desensitization to mass shootings, and Houston chief of police Art Acevedo is done with it.
In a public Fac…
How one of America’s most powerful policemen learned to love social media after Hurricane Harvey
It hasn’t been a great few weeks for social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. But in spite of all the undeniable problems associated with fake news, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the equally undeniable civic value of social media. Take, for example, the role of social media in the response in Houston to Hurricane Harvey. According to Art Acevedo,… Read More
Facebook is launching a 30-city tour to connect with small businesses
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Mark Zuckerberg will no longer be the only Facebook employee touring America.
Facebook is launching a 30-stop U.S. tour in 2018 to educate small business owners on how to use the product, Zuckerberg announced Thursday while visiting St. Louis. Called Facebook Community Boost, the program will include IRL training on how to get started or further take advantage of digital tools like Facebook.
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For Facebook, the return is obvious. More business owners using Facebook inspires more activity on the site, and business owners can easily become Facebook advertisers. The effort also aligns with Facebook’s new Community mission. Read more…
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Giant crowd of Astros fans saving a woman’s hat is Houston at its best
I was born in LA. One of my earliest memories is Kirk Gibson’s legendary home run in 1988. And I was heartbroken when the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Astros this year.
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Giant crowd of Astros fans saving a woman’s hat is Houston at its best
I was born in LA. One of my earliest memories is Kirk Gibson’s legendary home run in 1988. And I was heartbroken when the Dodgers lost the World Series to the Astros this year.
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When it’s Halloween and all you wanna do is watch the World Series
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Cruel fate put Game 6 of an incredibly exciting World Series on the same night as Halloween.
If you were a sports fan with kids — or lived in a neighborhood full of trick-or-treaters — this was pretty much torture. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, and just baseball in general were faced with some tough choices.
TRICK OR TREATERS MADE ME MISS THAT HOME RUN #WorldSeries
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) November 1, 2017
Some people straight-up pretended they weren’t home.
Front light off. Curtains closed. No time for Trick-or-Treaters. It’s World Series time#Game6
— David Andrews (@Metfan2442) November 1, 2017 Read more…
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