Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas

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Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. All but six of the 218 people who voted supported incorporating the city of Starbase, according to Cameron […]


Elon Musk’s Starbase becomes ‘real’ Texas city after lopsided vote

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The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. With all the […]


KFC moves U.S. headquarters from Kentucky to Texas

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Signage outside a Yum Brands Inc. KFC restaurant in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on Jan. 29, 2021. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images KFC is leaving Kentucky. The fried chicken chain’s U.S. headquarters will move from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas, owner Yum Brands said Tuesday. About 100 KFC U.S. employees will be required to relocate […]


Texas AG launches probe into Chinese AI app DeepSeek

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into DeepSeek, the upstart Chinese artificial intelligence company that rocked Wall Street last month, alleging it violates his state’s data privacy laws. The Republican AG said DeepSeek’s “blatant allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” is extremely concerning, as it “appears to be no more than […]


Texas becomes first state to ban DeepSeek, Rednote on government devices after fury over China-backed apps

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order banning the contested artificial intelligence app DeepSeek and the popular TikTok alternative RedNote from government-issued devices, becoming the first state to block the Chinese apps. The governor’s issue also prohibited Lemon8, another social media app owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent company Bytedance, which many turned to on the […]