SAN ANTONIO —
Texans being scammed by state tolls
If you recently got a text about an unpaid balance for Texas tolls, it might not be what it seems.
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is warning drivers of a new text message scam claiming to be from their agency.
The text claims the driver has an outstanding toll charge that needs to be addressed.
The toll road authority says it will never send texts that include or ask for personal information, including amounts owed. They're also telling users not to open any of the links sent from those texts and to make sure all bills are paid through their website.
You can't bring this one thing to the Texas State Fair
The Texas State Fair has banned firearms for the upcoming annual event according to the Associated Press.
Millions of people visit the fair in Dallas for the rides, corn dogs and deep-fried food but never violence.
After a shooting last year on the 277-acre (112-hectare) fairgrounds, fair organizers changed their requirements: no more firearms which has drawn backlash from law makers.
On Wednesday, the state’s attorney general threatened a lawsuit unless the fair reversed course.
“Dallas has fifteen days to fix the issue,” Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement, “otherwise I will see them in court.”
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Advances in technology and speech
According to UC Davis Health News the latest development in brain-computer interface (BCI) is the most advanced of its kind.
The technology developed by at UC Davis Health translates brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy.
The researchers implanted sensors in the brain of a man with severely impaired speech due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The man was able to communicate his intended speech within minutes of activating the system.
A study about this work was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
You can read more about this here.
