Clair Health’s wearable will cost $369 and will an app-based subscription of $9.99 per month Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – Former Texas Tribune board member killed in Laredo plane crash
The plane carrying Joshua Baer, who was also the CEO of Austin-based startup accelerator Capital Factory, was on its way to Austin from San José del Cabo in Mexico. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company’s new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational…
Tech Crunch – PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues
The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Opinion: Why New Mexicans should organize against Project Jupiter and future data centers
By Lorien House All over the United States, people are protesting new data centers because of obvious harms: energy consumption, water use and contamination, waste (including vast quantities of e-waste), air, light…
Tech Crunch – The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention… They’re down for whatever helps them do that.” Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there’s a data problem that needs to be solved. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Party on the Plaza, Juneteenth discussion headline El Paso events roundup
Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Party on the Plaza: Noche de Mariachi Party on the Plaza, a free outdoor concert series…