Throwback Thursday – To commemorate the 10th year of SXTXState, each Thursday we’ll be featuring past participants in the project. Check back each Thursday until SXSW to find out what SXTXState alumni remember from their time with the project and what they are up to now. Jordon Brown is another prime example of success from […]
Facebook filters fake news by tweaking its algorithm Facebook begins to flag links that are associated with fake news to help users filter out deceptive news articles. Facebook also will be providing their users with a complied list of websites and “news” channels that have been known to post fake news in the past. Facebook […]
Throwback Thursday – To commemorate the 10th year of SXTXState, each Thursday we’ll be featuring past participants in the project. Check back each Thursday until SXSW to find out what SXTXState alumni remember from their time with the project and what they are up to now. Maira Garcia graduated from Texas State University in […]
Robert Hernandez is not your typical journalism professor. He teaches as an associate professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, but he doesn’t necessarily consider himself an academic. “I am what’s called a practitioner,” Hernandez said. “There are academics that are boring and hypothetical about what the […]
Jordan Dunn is a Senior Product Designer at WillowTree. They work with Fortune 500 companies such as Regal Cinemas, Wyndham and Johnson & Johnson. Dunn began designing when he was a teenager who was heavy into video games and the group he played with wanted a website. Flash was the big program back then and that is […]
Tod Beardsley is the Director of Research at Rapid7, an IT and computer security firm. He has over 20 years of experience in computer security, having worked for major tech companies such as 3COM and Dell. These days, Beardsley primarily speaks at security and coding conferences, discussing the disclosure of security vulnerabilities. Of course sometimes, he […]
The computer hacker lifestyle has always intrigued young technology users. It’s easy to imagine dark rooms, dimly lit by old CRT monitors as one cyber-hero stays up to 3 a.m. probing the dark corners of the web. Okay, so maybe we can’t all be like the Hollywood movie hackers, quickly typing away at a DOS prompt to prevent […]