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Voters in Texas are most concerned about how much electricity costs and how reliable it is.

  IMAGE ADDRESS A recent report from a polling firm shows that most Texans want investments to make the state's electricity grid more reliable. This comes after the deadly winter power outages last year, which caused energy bills to go up for most people. The survey was done by the progressive research group Data for Progress at the beginning of September. It found that immigration and the reliability of the grid are two of the most important social and economic issues for Texas voters. The effects of Winter Storm Uri are still being felt, and a majority of voters polled across all political lines said that state leaders did not do enough to protect them from higher prices caused by the storm. In a poll of about 700 likely voters, nearly seven in ten Texans said that their home energy bills are also higher than they were a year ago. The survey was done in English and Spanish, and people could answer by text message or web page. Danielle Deiseroth, the lead climate strategist at Dat...

After a hacker started sending out "obscene" Apple News alerts, Fast Company had to take down their website.

  image source Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers had sent two "obscene and racist push alerts" around a minute apart, and that the company had temporarily disabled its Apple News feed until the problem was fixed. Fast Company, a business and media outlet in the United States, announced Tuesday night that it had shut down its website after being hacked and "obscene and bigoted" notifications were delivered to Apple customers through Apple's Apple News service. Connecting a news outlet's digital publishing capabilities with Apple News enables the outlet to notify subscribers of new posts directly from the Apple News app. A hacker group gained access to such publishing tools, according to Fast Company. Fast Company reported in a tweet that hackers had sent two "obscene and racist push alerts" within a minute of each other, and that the company had temporarily disabled its Apple News feed until the problem was fixed. FastCompany.com will be...

Another airline is moving from Tokyo Narita to Haneda.

 Another airline is moving from Tokyo Narita to Haneda. Image Address British Airways is combining its business in Tokyo. The airline has said that starting in March, it will move all of its operations in Tokyo to Tokyo Haneda International Airport, which is much closer to the city centre. At the moment, the airline has two flights a day from London Heathrow (LHR) to Tokyo, one to Tokyo Haneda (HND) and one to Tokyo Narita (NRT) (NRT). As GSTP was the first to report, BA will move all of its Tokyo operations to HND, which will give it two nonstop flights a day between London and Haneda starting on March 28. "We are excited to be adding a second daily flight into Tokyo Haneda Airport, where our partner JAL operates most of its domestic flights," British Airways told TPG. "Our customers can look forward to better connections between the U.K. and Japan, faster access into Tokyo, and newly remodelled partner lounges at Haneda." Between the two frequencies, BA will use b...