Texas Monthly’s visual-media departments won five awards in the sixty-first annual Society of Publication Designers competition on Thursday, including a coveted gold medal for best of genre. The competition recognizes the best…
Border Report – Watch: Mama cat named ‘Puffy Girl’ fights off coyote outside California home
The coyote allegedly went after one of her kittens early Monday morning, and that’s when Puffy Girl launched into action. Read: Read More
Border Report – Man dumpster dives for scratch-off ticket, then wins big
An Ohio man didn’t know he was a big lottery winner until it was almost too late. Read: Read More
Border Report – Major US airport to halt operations for much of July 4
Your flight may be impacted, officials warn. Read: Read More
Border Report – Todd Blanche faces rocky Senate confirmation process for attorney general
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is headed for a rocky Senate confirmation process to take on the role permanently as several Republican senators raise concerns about his credibility and independence from President…
Tech Crunch – PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues
The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – Muscle Cars, Bedazzled Everything, an Actual Elephant: A Weekend With Texas’s Most Devoted Republicans
Weeks after a divisive primary that forced out a lion of their party, Texas Republicans sought to come together at their 2026 convention. Held in downtown Houston, the three-day confab was marked…
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