DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general that accused the delivery platform of pocketing workers’ tips to cover wages. The lawsuit alleged that…
The Border Chronicle – “I Try to Focus on What’s Possible”: A Q&A with Judith Cabrera de la Rocha, Codirector of Border Line Crisis Center in Tijuana
Greetings from the Border Invasion. The first week of February, I drove from Tucson to San Diego/Tijuana. In California I walked through the Border Field State Park to the U.S.-constructed border wall,…
Texas Monthly – What Will You Find in a 343-Year-Old Mission Dedicated to the Saint of Lost Things?
The Detours series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. Inside the adobe walls of the Ysleta Mission are clues to a deep history of acculturation that characterizes El Paso to this day….
Texas Monthly – Can the American Bumblebee Get a Little Help From Man’s Best Friend?
Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Bombus pensylvanicusSize: Up to one inch longTexas habitat: Statewide Fat, hairy, and docile, the bumblebee is the…
Tech Crunch – Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’
Mitico thinks that it has found a way to slash the cost of carbon capture using a simple salt that’s been tweaked for industrial duty. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
El Paso Matters – A look inside nearly vacant deportee migrant camps in Ciudad Juárez
Story and photos by Rocío Gallegos / La Verdad CIUDAD JUAREZ – A labyrinth of white tents with rows of portable toilets around them stand out in the landscape of the area…
KTSM News – Person in custody after SWAT requested at East El Paso home
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A person was taken into custody after El Paso Police’s SWAT team responded to a barricaded subject early Tuesday morning, Feb. 25, in East El Paso. Police…
Tech Crunch – Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business
Orbital mobility took center-stage in the space industry last year, with venture capitalists funneling massive sums into startups developing tech for nimble satellite operations. So it’s no surprise that one of the…
Tech Crunch – Quantum Machines raises $170M, says it’s working with more than half of all quantum computing companies
Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology, but with some important breakthroughs in the last several months, investors are betting on more promising startups in the space, to…
Texas Monthly – The Neighborhood Spat That Went Nuclear
The Battle of Saratoga Hills finally seemed to be drawing to a close, or at least a standstill. But then, on November 13, a week after Donald Trump’s election triumph, a bombshell…