Multiple Democratic members have been packed into blue districts in Austin, Dallas and Houston to make way for newly crafted Republican districts in those areas. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – TikTok merges its Core Product and Trust & Safety teams
As part of the changes, TikTok’s head of Operations and Trust & Safety Adam Presser will become the General Manager of TikTok USDS, a separate entity of TikTok that’s tasked with safeguarding…
Texas Monthly – How a rural Texas sheriff became a poster child for serving Trump’s immigration goals
Roy Boyd has also become one of the loudest cheerleaders for partnerships between sheriffs and ICE to offer the federal agency unprecedented access to jails and deputies. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Texas Monthly’s Dining Critic on Her Latest Reviews and Summer Recipes
Texas Monthly’s new dining critic, Paula Forbes, joined the magazine early this year. Before that, she spent more than fifteen years covering restaurants, interviewing chefs, developing recipes, working in restaurants, and writing…
Texas Monthly – Nature Calls at This Award-Winning Rest Stop on I-10
The Coordinates series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. It can be hard to appreciate the landscape of West Texas when you’re hurtling toward the horizon, tumbleweeds in your wake and a…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI to launch AI data center in Norway, its first in Europe
OpenAI said the new Norway-based datacenter comes as the European Union races to achieve AI sovereignty by investing in data center and compute power. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – How founders are ditching VC norms and finding capital on their own terms at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, a candid conversation is coming to the Builder Stage — one that unpacks what startup funding looks like beyond…
Texas Monthly – All Hail the Mighty Snail
If you want to forget your troubles and tune out the state of the world, look no further than an online snail-appreciation group like Pet Snails and Slugs, which has ten thousand…
Tech Crunch – Ford to reveal more about its new low-cost electric vehicles on August 11
Jim Farley, Ford’s CEO, has touted this as a “Model T moment” — but the first of these new EVs won’t come out until 2027. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Waymo’s Tekedra Mawakana on the truth behind autonomous vehicles at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Autonomous vehicles have long been touted as “just around the corner,” but the reality of what it takes to bring self-driving cars to the streets is anything but simple. At TechCrunch Disrupt…