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…
Texas Monthly – Texas Monthly Takes Home Medals From the 61st Annual Society of Publication Designers Competition
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
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