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Big Brother More Pervasive Than Ever, Laws Slow to Adopt Worker's Digital Rights

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May 16, 20222 min read

Big Brother More Pervasive Than Ever, Laws Slow to Adopt Worker's Digital Rights

Ways to monitor employees are now more advanced than ever. Worker protections are slowly beginning to emerge.

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May 8, 20221 min read

Bitcoin "Rat Poison Squared"

Warren Buffett says cryptocurrencies are non-productive assets the value of which is based solely on getting the next guy to pay more.

Looking Under the Hood of Big Tech Reveals Where Profits Are Huge & Possibly Unfair

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May 7, 20223 min read

Looking Under the Hood of Big Tech Reveals Where Profits Are Huge & Possibly Unfair

Big tech Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft & Meta have concentrated profits, some loss of loyalty & regulatory hits that could total $330bn

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Apr 25, 20222 min read

Net-Zero Claims & Reality

Only 1 in 15 companies have made net-zero-emission goals. Stopping their own emissions rather than rely on offsets alone is essential.

Southern California Dealing with Drought-The Role of Desalination-Carlsbad & Huntington Beach

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Apr 8, 20221 min read

Southern California Dealing with Drought-The Role of Desalination-Carlsbad & Huntington Beach

Desalination will never be the panacea solution to drought but with innovations it is part of the solution but comes with high cost.

Retail Pricing-Large Transaction Datasets & AI Make Pricing Decisions More Reliable

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Mar 30, 20222 min read

Retail Pricing-Large Transaction Datasets & AI Make Pricing Decisions More Reliable

Retail pricing once an art is now more of science due to massive transactional databases and AI computing.

Austin Rising-VC Funding, SBA Loans & NIH Grants

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Mar 25, 20222 min read

Austin Rising-VC Funding, SBA Loans & NIH Grants

Austin continues to accrue above "it's weight" in VC Funding and SBA Loans and is on a path to see growth in Medical Research NIH grants.

Early Detection of Parkinson's In Development-A Link to Organic Acids from Skin in Patients

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Mar 22, 20222 min read

Early Detection of Parkinson's In Development-A Link to Organic Acids from Skin in Patients

Early detection of disease is often a key to slowing or eliminating disease. A test being developed for Parkinson's Disease catch it early.

High Gas Prices Increase Interest In EVs

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Mar 20, 20223 min read

High Gas Prices Increase Interest In EVs

With rising gas prices comes an even greater interest in electric vehicles. 36% of Texas EV registrations are in the DFW area of Texas.

Dell At SXSW-Austin's Tech No Reason to Think it will Stop

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Mar 16, 20222 min read

Dell At SXSW-Austin's Tech No Reason to Think it will Stop

Michael Dell and VC Jim Breyer at SXSW comment that the Austin area will continue to build a tech and medical innovation hub.

Kroger Entering the Austin Metro with eCommerce Last-Mile Delivery Service

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Mar 14, 20221 min read

Kroger Entering the Austin Metro with eCommerce Last-Mile Delivery Service

Kroger will enter the Austin Metro Market with grocery delivery later in 2022 by collaborating with eCommerce expert Ocado.

2,000 Manufacturing Jobs Coming to Georgetown Mid-2022 Welcome CelLink Technologies

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Mar 9, 20221 min read

2,000 Manufacturing Jobs Coming to Georgetown Mid-2022 Welcome CelLink Technologies

CelLink techologies makers of circuits for EVs is opening a manufacturing site in Georgetown, TX that will add 2,000 jobs mid-2022.

High-Paying Jobs Being Added in Round Rock

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Mar 8, 20221 min read

High-Paying Jobs Being Added in Round Rock

Round Rock Texas doles out incentives that will add high-paying jobs at Emerson and SDC. Incentives added nearly $500M in taxes in 15 years!

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Mar 3, 20221 min read

Sunset Lakeway North

Around Austin-"Another beautiful sunset in Lakeway last night. I just keep my camera by the porch door now ;-)" by Ron B.

Tunnel Development by Boring in Pflugerville

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Mar 3, 20221 min read

Tunnel Development by Boring in Pflugerville

Elon Musk's moves Boring Co. R&D to Pflugerville, Texas. Less regulatory hassle in Texas is a key to speed tunneling capability and vision.

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Mar 1, 20222 min read

New Spyware Hacks-The "No-Click" Hitch

A smartphone security concern, hackers are moving from one-click to zero-click. No need to click and you won't easily know you've been hit!

Rivian Launches EV Pickup the Rivian RIT

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Feb 17, 20222 min read

Rivian Launches EV Pickup the Rivian RIT

Ready or not enter the American market the first EV Pickup the Rivian RIT. Many accolades for the powerful mid-size pickup & a few glitches

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Feb 16, 20222 min read

One-A-Day Unicorns

Private equity preferred by entrepreneurs has been hot for a while and doubled the number of unicorns last year as investors poured in $681B

Spinal Implant Reported to Enable Walking For A Patient with a Completely Severed Spinal Cord

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Feb 10, 20221 min read

Spinal Implant Reported to Enable Walking For A Patient with a Completely Severed Spinal Cord

Surgically implanted nerve stimulation device has demonstrated the ability to restore walking for patients in a controlled clinical setting.

The Dream of Automatic Software Coding Becoming A Reality for Some Business Needs

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Feb 4, 20222 min read

The Dream of Automatic Software Coding Becoming A Reality for Some Business Needs

Developing software without having coding credentials is increasingly possible using tools from Salesforce, Microsoft, Amazon and others

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