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A fan takes a picture of artist Skrillex, performing at Mohawk Friday night.
It’s 9 p.m. on a Thursday night, but before my high heels hit Sixth Street, I have a date. I carefully check my hair, my makeup and my internet connection. With a couple of clicks, Skype displays my date’s face against a surge of sunshine that briefly disorients me. Even after nearly a year of long-distance Skype dates, the 13-hour time difference catches me by surprise every time.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds as passenger cars crumpled and windows exploded around them. It was Argentina’s worst train accident in decades.
The cause wasn’t immediately determined, but many pointed to a deteriorating rail system. Some passengers reported signs the conductor was struggling with the brakes before the crash, saying he kept overshooting platforms and missed one entirely.
RESTELICA, Kosovo — Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.
Col. Shemsi Syla, a spokesman for the Kosovo Security Force, said Sunday officers discovered the girl when they heard her voice and cell phone. Her home was buried under 33 feet of snow.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series exploring the many perils and joys of modern dating.
Each generation reinvents the dating scene; we’ve graduated from the days of poodle skirts and burger joints to Match.com and going “Facebook official.” But as the rules of the dating game change, the goal has remained the same: to win over the one you love.
Charles Studor was fascinated by the women he saw in Honduras and their ability to create smooth, creamy coffee that couldn’t seem to be replicated in the U.S. Now, years later, replication will be possible with his unique coffee kiosk.
Your phone has to survive the daily punishment of not only continuous usage but also the occasional drop. The iPhone 4 may have one of the most beautiful designs on the market, but its glass panels on the front and back of the phone can shatter when dropped. OtterBox, a cell phone case manufacturer known for making some of the best protective cases, has created a special case for the fragile iPhone 4. For those who want the most protection for their iPhone, OtterBox offers the Defender Series.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me six times? You need some serious help.
Former Longhorn running back Cedric Benson had his sixth run-in with the law last weekend when he was arrested and jailed on a charge of assault causing bodily injury to a man now identified as a former roommate. According to NBC Sports, here’s how it went down.
UT researchers have announced a partnership with the world’s largest hydroelectric producer to patent a revolutionary rechargeable battery designed at the University.
Engineering professor John Goodenough used an innovative combination of materials to create the lithium ion battery, which will be produced by Canadian-based company Hydro-Québec for use in commercial products around the world.
The man ran on foot through the African safari, shooting down lions, rhinoceroses and zebras. He swallowed more whiskey than water, killed Nazis and won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The man was Ernest Hemingway.
You may have been here during sex: you’re face to face, chest to chest, completely exposed to someone when your mind wanders. Suddenly you’re thinking about the lighting, your body, whether or not you’ll marry this person and before you know it you’re so far into your thoughts it’s difficult to enjoy what’s happening.
It’s no question that text messaging has become an essential part of communication. For UT students, texting is vital for everything from campus safety alerts to organizing study groups. The pervasiveness of texting has led to some common social blunders. Since the cell phone has become somewhat of an additional appendage, situations often go unnoticed in which its use causes inadvertent tension.
Living in a city that embraces technology the way Austin does can make Facebook and other social networking tools seem ubiquitous. Obama has a Facebook. Bill Powers has a Facebook. The guy “taking notes” in class on his laptop probably has one, and he probably has it open right now.
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Jian Yang, a Plant Biology graduate student, makes a call on his cell phone outside Wanfu Too restaurant on Barton Springs Road Sunday evening.
Jian Yang, a Plant Biology graduate student, makes a call on his cell phone outside Wanfu Too restaurant on Barton Springs Road Sunday evening.
A judge closed the book on a nearly two-year-old case by sentencing two accomplices in the 2009 West Campus murders to prison after they pleaded guilty.
Samuel Gifford, 20, received a 50-year sentence and Roy Renick, 22, received a 35-year sentence. Both men helped plan and implement the murders of former West Campus residents Stacy Barnett, 22, and Jonathon Goosey, 21.
A wrecked pick-up truck stood out against the Capitol lawn Wednesday as legislators and members of the media mourned the death of 17-year-old Alex Brown and discussed ways to prevent texting while driving.
On the first day of the protests in Egypt, Jordan Bellquist spent an ordinary day at home with Mama, her Egyptian host parent.
Bellquist, a radio-television-film and Arabic senior and Arabic Flagship Program participant, knew there were protests in Alexandria, but everyone expected them to be peaceful.
Sarah Lancaster may be a fresh face to the women’s basketball squad, but she lacks no experience in representing the Longhorns on the athletic stage.
A four-year women’s tennis player, Lancaster decided to retire her racquet last spring and replace it with a basketball.
But her final decision to try out for the basketball team did not come without some pestering from her old teammates.
On paper, “Morning Glory” sounds like a movie that would be easy to hate.
The story of a down-on-her-luck producer coming to rejuvenate a low-rated morning talk show sounds like a not particularly original twist on every underdog movie ever made. But somehow, “Morning Glory” is effortlessly enjoyable; a light, funny chick flick that knows exactly what’s expected of it and then exceeds those expectations with flying colors.
About 25 volunteers chatted away their cell phone minutes Thursday evening as part of Hook the Vote’s early vote phone bank.
With a list of 14,000 contacts, the volunteers called registered UT student voters who had not voted yet. Their focus was on heavily student-based precincts — including the on-campus, West Campus and Riverside precincts.
After internally assessing its response on Sept. 28 — the day mathematics sophomore Colton Tooley fired 11 rounds of his AK-47 on campus before taking his own life — the University’s Emergency Preparedness department reported about 53,000 students and staff received text message alerts.
However, in many cases users did not receive the text alerts for up to 45 minutes after they were sent. UT officials said congested wireless traffic contributed to the delay.
A student records video on a cell phone outside Jester Hall as hundreds of police mobilize across the street in front of Gregory Gymnasium on Tuesday morning.
One day, waking up an hour late for your communication ethics class means an absence in the record book. Simply and quantitatively, the absence means little more than a lower grade and maybe an awkward e-mail asking for that day’s notes. However, despite its inconsequence, few can deny the slightly guilty feeling in the pit of your stomach saying, “Now why’d you go and do that?”
