President Trump directed agencies that regulate energy and the environment to sunset a wide array of environmental protections in an executive order issued Wednesday night. He ordered agencies including the Environmental Protection…
Tech Crunch – Netflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile game
Season 7 of “Black Mirror” premiered on Thursday, introducing a new mobile game connected to one of its episodes. The game, titled “Thronglets,” from Netflix’s own Night School Studio, serves as a…
Tech Crunch – Jobandtalent raises $103M on a down-round $1.5B valuation as it looks to AI to recruit temps
Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million). The Series F — which includes participation…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats
OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allow the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their…
Tech Crunch – Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and more
Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are…
Tech Crunch – LiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice Mode
A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video — to users in real time without interruptions. Some firms build solutions in-house, but…
KTSM News – El Paso Police fight back vs. catalytic converter theft
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso Police Department is fighting back against catalytic converter theft with a VIN etching event. The free event will be from 9 a.m. to noon…
Texas Monthly – Texas Wants to Become Hollywood (Without All That Liberal Hollywood Crap)
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is used to being the Legislature’s resident buzzkill, implacably opposed to both gambling and marijuana legalization. But drop the lights and part the curtain, and this mighty man,…
Tech Crunch – Meghan Markle has made another angel investment
Meghan is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship. In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a…
Tech Crunch – Sydney Thomas’s Symphonic Capital raises $13.5M for inaugural fund
Symphonic Capital announced today in a blog post that it raised $13.5 million for its inaugural fund to invest in early-stage companies. Sydney Thomas launched the firm in 2022 after leaving Charles…