2018

Students at Texas State University have been hard at work creating and developing exciting new technologies. Undergraduates in several different departments, like Lorena Martinez of the McCoy College of Business, came to the Texas State Innovation Lab at the Austin W Hotel Downtown to present their projects within the context of SXSW Interactive. “I developed the […]

Betsy Reed of The Intercept Discusses Translating News Narratives To Twitter

Day three of South by Southwest provided a wide variety of new and interesting panels. The Breaking Thru a Tweet Driven News Cycle & Culture panel featured industry professionals discussing how news outlets can maintain their depth of content in an age dominated by the convenience of digital brevity. Speakers included Anna Holmes of Topic.com, Jenna […]

Panel Recap: Data Journalism: We're All News Nerds Now

Data journalism is more than just journalism done with data. It is journalism that looks at data, analyzes it to find trends and context and displays it in a meaningful way for people to understand. On Saturday, a panel of journalism and tech leaders shared lessons and ideas about data journalism and data literacy. The […]

Panel Recap: Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd

Become the CEO your parents always wanted you to marry. -Whitney Wolfe Herd Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble, a dating app where women make the first move. After alleging sexual harassment and discrimination with Tinder (she wishes no ill will on anyone in the company), Wolfe broke away from the popular dating […]

SkyHacking: Nose to Tail on Aviation Cybersecurity

As new technology seems to make its way to 40,000 feet, just how safe are we? Actually, a lot safer than you may think, but still something that needs to be considered and something that needs to be taken seriously. A lot of these new technologies are see in both civilian aircraft, the military and […]