TVZero DayNetflix, February 20Texan Jesse Plemons reunites with his Friday Night Lights costar Connie Britton in this six-episode limited series about a former U.S. president (Robert De Niro) who is pulled out…
The Border Chronicle – What Is Texas’s Operation Lone Star, and What Happens If Trump Makes It a National Model? A Podcast with Texas Civil Rights Advocate Bob Libal
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper looks over the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico Border on March 23, 2021 in McAllen, Texas. Texas DPS troopers are taking part in Operation…
Tech Crunch – Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
On Tuesday morning, Spotify announced its fourth-quarter earnings, marking its first full year of profitability since its inception 17 years ago. The operating income for the quarter reached a record €477 million…
Texas Monthly – All Loud on the Western Wear Front
In less than a decade, Ben and Bonnie Kennimer have gone from teaching themselves hat making and clothing design to customizing looks for some of music’s biggest stars. Their eponymous Western-wear label,…
Texas Monthly – Gloria Smith Goes Down Home
Gloria Lawsha Smith had a lot of friends when she was growing up in Fort Worth’s Southside neighborhood, an African American part of town. It was the sixties, and many of them…
Tech Crunch – Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry
After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company blocked third-party clients in 2023, including ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the company behind Twitterrifc, on Tuesday is finally launching its multi-feed…
Tech Crunch – Sotira lands $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory
An estimated 20% to 30% of all inventory in the U.S. is surplus, with much of it ending up in landfills. A startup called Sotira wants to help address this problem: It…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too
OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to…
Tech Crunch – Snap unveils AI text-to-image model for mobile devices
Snap has unveiled an AI text-to-image model for mobile devices that will power some of Snapchat’s features in the coming months. The company said on Tuesday that the model can produce high-resolution…
El Paso Matters – Short on time, El Paso city manager sets out to find funding for Downtown deck plaza
The City Council on Monday directed the city manager to produce a report identifying plausible funding sources for the Downtown deck plaza – including public funds outside of taxpayer dollars. It’s the…