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Better tech in Texas is group’s goal
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The digital age is the best technological leap ahead in human historical past. Technological improvement has linked people, companies, governments, social causes and extra as by no means earlier than. Communication that was once restricted by bodily distances can now be performed instantaneously, with a number of keystrokes and the press of a button.
This development raises ethical and cultural questions on expertise getting used for good or for evil. The traditional Greeks had a time period for this: pharmakon, a medication or poison. Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben gave us a contemporary tackle pharmakon: “With nice energy comes nice accountability.” Within the expertise house, people, firms, and even governments have nice energy to make use of expertise for good, however we have to be vigilant to make sure expertise is just not used for dangerous, dangerous, or nefarious functions.
To assist drive this dialog, the Texas Public Coverage Basis not too long ago launched its new expertise coverage initiative known as Higher Tech for Tomorrow. The guts of Higher Tech for Tomorrow is advancing sound conservative public coverage, undergirded by data-driven analysis.
Higher Tech for Tomorrow is a forward-thinking strategy to expertise, emphasizing a light-touch regulatory setting that gives the best alternative for continued innovation, whereas respecting the privateness, safety and dignity of Texans. Texas can change into a nationwide and world expertise chief. Texas’ financial system, tax system, power and regulatory setting are main attracts to entrepreneurs, attracting dozens of expertise corporations in fields equivalent to knowledge, automation, synthetic intelligence, house and blockchain, amongst others.
To do that, the Texas Public Coverage Basis will construct a coalition of organizations, business leaders, people and lawmakers dedicated to creating Texas the premier state for principled technological innovation, enacting coverage options in areas like knowledge privateness, client safety and broadband.
A state knowledge privateness legislation, also called a Digital Invoice of Rights, is our prime precedence. Whereas there may be an business push for a nationwide knowledge privateness legislation, states needn’t anticipate federal motion on this necessary difficulty. Solely 5 states have enacted knowledge privateness legal guidelines. A knowledge privateness legislation offers people extra management over their knowledge by clarifying what knowledge could be collected and held, and the way entities can use this knowledge. Finally, it is a private and personal property difficulty, not a difficulty of company profiteering.
A second coverage precedence is a parental empowerment and client safety measure to guard minors from dangerous content material, obscene supplies, intercourse predators and human traffickers, on-line and on social media. Even inner knowledge from social media corporations exhibits that social media use is dangerous to minors, so this is able to empower dad and mom to make knowledgeable selections on expertise use.
A 3rd precedence is broadband coverage. Broadband growth is essential to equitable web entry and reliability for Texans, no matter their location. Texas will obtain greater than $600 million {dollars} in federal funding for broadband infrastructure, and TPPF needs to make sure this cash is spent transparently and prudently, focused to the areas most in want of high-speed web.
TPPF can even analysis and supply coverage suggestions on censorship and free speech points, blockchain expertise and cybersecurity, amongst different areas.
States should stand within the hole to guard the rights and liberties of the individuals from federal and company overreach. Texas’ individuals, values and sources uniquely place the state to be the chief for a brand new technological revolution embodying these ideas. Texas has the components to guide a conservative, values-driven strategy to technological innovation and coverage.
Zach Whiting is a former Iowa state senator and a senior fellow on the Texas Public Coverage Basis. He wrote this for The Dallas Morning Information.
Texas A&M will be without its leading scorer for this weekend’s top-10 matchup against Alabama. The Aggies listed senior point guard Wade Taylor IV as out in its SEC-mandated availability report on Friday night.
Meanwhile, Alabama will be without backup guard Houston Mallette, who was listed as out for the matchup against Texas A&M. Earlier on Friday, Alabama head coach Nate Oats said Mallette is having his knees evaluated as the team decides whether or not to sit him for the rest of the season and apply for a medical redshirt.
Taylor leads Texas A&M in both scoring (15.7 points per game) and assists (4.8 per game. The 6-foot, 180-pound senior has scored in double digits in all of his 13 games this season. During Texas A&M’s 100-75 loss at Alabama last year, the Tide held Taylor to 10 points and five rebounds on 4 of 15 shooting, including 2 of 5 from beyond the arc.
According to a report from KWKT FOX 44, Taylor experienced knee tightness during Texas A&M’s 80-60 win over Texas on Jan. 4. The guard left for the locker room during the second half against the Longhorns but was able to return to action, finishing with 13 points on 25 minutes. Taylor did not play during the Aggies’ 80-78 win over Oklahoma on Wednesday. He was replaced by senior Manny Obaseki in the starting lineup.
With Taylor out, Texas A&M leaned on senior guard Zhuric Phelps, who scored a career-high 34 points against Oklahoma, making 11 of 25 shots from the floor, including 6 of 10 from beyond the arc.
Alabama (13-2, 2-0 in the SEC) is set to tip off against Texas A&M (13-2, 2-0) on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT inside Reed Arena in College Station, Texas. The game will be televised on ESPN.
On Friday night, two of college football’s iconic programs will meet with a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship game on the line.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Texas Longhorns have their fingerprints all over the sport’s history yet somehow have squared off only three times.
A Fiesta Bowl meeting after the 2008 season. A home-and-home series in 2005 and 2006. That’s all the history the Buckeyes and Longhorns share on the gridiron — until they take the field in the CFP Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday.
Here’s how each of those three matchups played out.
Jan. 5, 2009: Texas 24, Ohio State 21
Although the 2009 Fiesta Bowl experienced a low-scoring first 30 minutes (the Buckeyes led 6-3 at halftime), the fourth quarter offered an ending to remember.
First, Ohio State roared back into the lead with 17 unanswered points after entering the final period trailing 17-6. With just two minutes to respond, Texas put together an impressive 11-play drive that culminated in quarterback Colt McCoy finding wide receiver Quan Cosby for the winning touchdown with 16 seconds remaining.
The McCoy and Cosby connection dominated all game, with the pair linking up 14 times for 171 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Sept. 9, 2006: Ohio State 24, Texas 7
McCoy’s first encounter with Ohio State wasn’t as pleasant as the Fiesta Bowl.
In a battle of the then-No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the land, it was the top-ranked Buckeyes who made an early-season statement against the defending national champion Longhorns on the road in Austin. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy that season, threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns as the Buckeyes scored in all four quarters of the win.
Sept. 10, 2005: Texas 25, Ohio State 22
The first meeting between the Longhorns and Buckeyes came with nearly the same high billing as the 2006 contest, with the two squads squaring off as the No. 2 and No. 4 teams in the country, respectively.
As in 2006, it was the higher-ranked visiting side that came out on top, although the game itself proved to be much closer. Texas jumped out to an early 10-0 lead, but Ohio State battled back and eventually entered halftime, and then the fourth quarter, ahead.
Said final quarter, however, belonged to the Longhorns. Quarterback Vince Young’s 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Limas Sweed proved to be the winner, with Texas adding some insurance in the game’s final moments with a safety-inducing sack of Troy Smith in the end zone.
The top-five win was the Longhorns’ first major statement in a campaign that would end with a national championship.
NORTH TEXAS – This week’s snow event will end with a “few flurries” during Friday’s morning commute, according to CBS News Texas meteorologist Jeff Ray.
“But roads will have frozen over,” Ray said.
Expect hazardous road conditions in the morning, as it will be “the worst” the roads have been since the event started on Thursday morning, Ray said.
Late in the morning, temperatures will rise above freezing, which will “help drivers get around the Metroplex,” Ray said.
A cold front is expected Friday, he said.
“We are going to have wind chills in the 20s all day,” Ray said. “By nightfall on Friday, temperatures will drop quickly and water will re-freeze on the roads across the evening. This ice will remain until mid-morning on Saturday before the sun and warmer temperatures in the mid-40s clear the roadways.”
CBS News Texas will continue to provide updates as information becomes available.
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