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  Flashspoter - Google is doubling down on its cloud computing and artificial intelligence ambitions with a massive new investment. The company has unveiled plans to pour $40 billion into building three additional data centers in Texas by 2027. This marks Google's largest expansion ever within a single U.S. state, highlighting just how central Texas has become to its future AI and cloud strategies. The project includes one facility in Armstrong County, located in the Texas Panhandle, plus two more in Haskell County—a largely overlooked part of West Texas that has rarely seen major tech investment. These new sites add to Google's existing presence in the state, which already included a data center launched in Midlothian back in 2019 and later expanded into Red Oak. With a prior investment of $2.7 billion, the new $40 billion commitment makes Texas the single largest recipient of Google's capital investment across the entire country. According to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, t...

  Flashspoter - After years of complaints from creators frustrated by unauthorized reposting of their videos, Meta has finally taken action. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is rolling out more accessible tools to help monitor and address content theft, with a particular focus on Reels—the short-video format most commonly affected. Previously, creators could rely on Rights Manager, a dedicated copyright platform, but it was complex and limited to a smaller group of professional users. Now, Meta is introducing Content Protection directly within the Facebook app, hoping to make the feature available to a much broader audience—especially those who regularly post Reels. On a technical level, Content Protection works by automatically scanning a creator’s original video. When the system detects identical or highly similar Reels—whether in full or in part—uploaded by other accounts, those matches appear in a private dashboard visible only to the creator. This allows creators t...