An aerial view in February 2023 of the largest solar plant in Latin America, which is being built in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, as part of Mexico’s Plan Sonora. (Photo credit: Raquel Cunha…
Tech Crunch – Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference
Meta on Tuesday announced that it’ll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI. Called LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama family of generative AI models, the conference is scheduled to take place…
KTSM News – Memorial services set for pioneering Black general Greer
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Pioneering Black U.S. Army general officer Edward Greer, who died last month at age 100, will be laid to rest later this week. Memorial services are set…
Tech Crunch – Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option
The new feature lets users limit their conversations to connections of their own choosing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – This “Taco Passport” Turns the Concept of Proof of Citizenship On Its Head
As deportations and ICE raids frighten Latino immigrant communities, the co-owner of Austin’s Vaquero Taquero is pushing back in a creative way. “Latino immigrants, whatever their status, are the backbone of the…
Tech Crunch – Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night…
El Paso Matters – SISD employees see pay cuts under new health plan
As Socorro Independent School District employees got their first check of the year, many noticed less take-home pay after the district’s new health insurance plan went into effect in January. “When I…
Tech Crunch – Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI
Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a…
Tech Crunch – Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages,…
Tech Crunch – As US newspaper outages drag on, Lee Enterprises blames cyberattack for encrypting critical systems
Lee said it was analyzing whether sensitive or personal data was stolen in the cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More