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Good morning, Houston. Looks like we'll have a tougher time cracking out those fake Benjamins next year: The $100 bill will soon be getting a high-tech makeover to thwart counterfeiters. The key feature: 650,000 tiny lenses embedded in each bill, which will magnify the printing so that the portrait of Benjamin Franklin appears to move up and down or side to side, depending on which way you move the bill. "It makes for a...

City Council members on Wednesday approved a contract with EarthLink to build Houston's wireless Internet network, putting the city a step closer to having the nation's largest municipal Wi-Fi setup — or, as KHOU has apparently taken to calling it, a "wireless Internet bubble." (Not one, we hope, like this.)

Mayor Bill White talked online about the city's Wi-Fi initiative yesterday afternoon in a chat hosted by the High-Tech Local Celebrity Michael Garfield. The official transcript hasn't been posted on Garfield's blog yet, but most of the questions seem to have been about the business end of the new system. While most of the chat answers could have been found on Google, White handled a few curves. For example, houstonmacbro brought up the problem of...