EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — El Paso City Council approved changes to the City’s fee schedule Tuesday, Oct. 13 in a 6-2 vote, including an increase in the maximum amount Animal Services…
Tech Crunch – Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient
Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company’s work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI). Read…
Tech Crunch – Cerebras CEO says we’re nearing a future where everyone has a personal AI assistant at home
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry’s focus on AI’s risks is drowning out its…
KTSM News – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders to appear in El Paso next week
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is bringing his Fighting Oligarchy Tour to El Paso next week. According to Sanders’ website, Sanders will be in El Paso on…
Border Report – US sanctions cartel-linked horse racing network with New Mexico ties
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Tuesday on four people and 11 businesses it accuses of supporting the Cartel del Noreste through horse racing, construction, trucking, and fuel operations. Read: Read More
KTSM News – Alamogordo man convicted of kidnapping, beating woman
Ernesto Robles was convicted of first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy following an incident in which he and three others abducted, beat, and shaved a woman’s head in Alamogordo in 2023. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution
The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
The FBI arrested a Saudi national who worked at OpenAI on the product team. The AI maker accused the employee of hiding a recording device in an executive conference room. Read more: Read…