Texas Standard For August 2, 2018
Credit card hacking, vote hacking and energy grid hacking… What’s actually being done to protect U.S. cyber security? We’ll take a look. And: The years-long effort to rewrite the code that guides how the state’s capital city grows could be completely thrown out. Has it really gone so horribly wrong? Also: The country’s first trillion dollar company won’t be a Texas oil giant but a tech company with a big footprint in the state. We’ll explain. Also: How will generations to come remember Hurricane Harvey? A project designed to preserve digital stories of the storm. Plus: A new effort to understand a mysterious and devastating phenomenon in the waters of the Texas Gulf Coast. We’ll tell you about that and more on todays Texas Standard:

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