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  • Google Fiber’s Next Stop is San Antonio, Its Largest City Yet

    It’s official – Google Fiber’s next stop is San Antonio.

    This will be the biggest city to which Google’s brought its high-speed internet.

    According to Google, the Fiber installation will require over 4,000 miles of cable.

    “From starting Bexar BiblioTech, the first all-digital public library in the U.S., to being named a leading city in cybersecurity, San Antonio has developed a thriving tech landscape. Hundreds of startups have found their home in the Alamo City through collaborative workspaces and accelerators like Geekdom and Cafe Commerce. Moreover, San Antonio’s recent selection for President Obama’s Tech Hire and Connect Home initiatives will help create a pipeline of tech jobs and narrow the digital divide. With speeds up to 1,000Mbps, compared to the U.S. average of just 12Mbps (Akamai, Q1 2015), Google Fiber will further fuel the city’s growth,” says Texas Google Fiber head Mark Strama.

    In January, Google announced Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Nashville as next stops for Fiber. In March, Salt Lake City got the nod.

    As of today, Fiber is up and running in Kansas City, Provo, Utah, and Austin.

    “Kansas City, Provo, and fellow Texas tech-hub Austin have already shown what’s possible when growing cities and businesses have access to gigabit internet. In the homes of those using Google Fiber, families spend less time arguing over bandwidth, and more time surfing the web,” he said.

  • Kanye West Kicks Out Concert-Goer For Heckling

    Kanye West is a pretty artsy guy. He also likes to do things his own way without being questioned, so when a fan recently asked him to take off the weird mask he was wearing during a concert in San Antonio, he got a little salty.

    “You can see my face on the Internet every motherfucking day,” Kanye said. “I came here, I open up a mountain…and you tryin’ to tell me how to give you my art….Do I look like a motherfucking comedian? Don’t fucking heckle me. I’m Kanye motherfucking West.”

    The show was stopped so West could address the woman, who was then escorted out by security. Don’t fuck with the Yeezus.

    West might be feeling a bit ganged up on lately, as he was the subject of a faux interview by The Daily Currant which “quoted” him as saying he’d already done bigger things than Nelson Mandela. A pretty unsurprising backlash ensued as the internet took the article seriously, and West defended himself on Twitter, saying he knew better than to talk smack about Mandela.

    “At a young age my mother taught me the importance of his work. Mandela sacrificed his life for the betterment of mankind,” he wrote.

    No word yet from the fan who was kicked out.

    Image: Wikimedia Commons

  • Tornado Bludgeons San Antonio, Texas

    Tornado Bludgeons San Antonio, Texas

    A tornado southwest of San Antonio caused considerable damage and flooding across the region. The flooding was caused by a line of thunderstorms that shadowed the fierce cone of destruction.

    The natural disaster touched down late Monday about 25 miles southwest of San Antonio and moved toward the city. Most of the damage was to rural homes north of the towns of Natalia and Lytle, officials said.

    The following YouTube video shows a Large cone tornado in Lytle, TX on March 19, 2012:

    “We have multiple homes damaged, several homes were taken by this tornado,” Roy Bermudez, a deputy with the Medina County Sheriff’s Office southwest of San Antonio, told Reuters Tuesday morning. Several people suffered injuries but a full assessment of the damage would be unavailable until after daylight.

    More injuries of fatalities could have resulted but dozens of people took refuge in a community center set up in the town of Somerset, southwest of San Antonio.

    The National Weather Service had issued flash flood warnings for parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The flooding and debris caused dozens of streets to be closed, making it harder for people to check on their loved ones.

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    Weather radar images showed a slow-moving band of storms stretching from near the Texas-Mexico border through eastern Oklahoma and into southeastern Kansas. Meteorologists with the weather service said the line would continue to move eastward through the morning.

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    Power outages were reported across the area; 23,000 homes were without power early Tuesday.

    Other damage included two house fires that may have been caused by lightning strikes.

    One truck driver had a particularly terrifying experience; the man was trapped inside his vehicle after a live power line was blown onto his truck by the strong winds. The San Antonion Fire Department rescued the man in the knick of time.

    The flooding rains are a half blessing for south and central Texas. The region has been suffering from a drought that began early in 2011. It developed into the state’s worst one-year drought ever.

    Hopefully this disaster will help crops grow to fruition later this year.