Here’s a roundup of some culture and civic events in the borderland in the coming week. Mexican American Cultural Center Grand Opening The city’s Mexican American Cultural Center, 201 W. Franklin Ave.,…
KTSM News – El Paso leads nation in migrant encounters
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Fewer than 8,400 individuals crossed into the U.S. illegally from Mexico last February, but 1 in 4 did so along a stretch of the border running…
Tech Crunch – Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round
Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On…
Tech Crunch – Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers
The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
KTSM News – NASA astronauts return home successfully
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Two NASA astronauts are finally back on Earth after their brief mission last summer unexpectedly became nine months in space. It all started with a flawed Boeing test flight…
Tech Crunch – Shopify transfers its US listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq
Nearly 10 years after filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that it’s transitioning its U.S. listing to…
Tech Crunch – Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity
There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI. At least three AI labs — Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience — claim to…
Texas Monthly – Mark Seliger on the Song that Informs His Portraits of Willie Nelson
Amarillo-born Mark Seliger was a lonely college freshman at what was then called East Texas State University when he first fell for Willie Nelson’s music. A new girlfriend was visiting Dallas, and…
Tech Crunch – Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks
Prezent has raised $20 million in an all-equity funding to build specialized presentation models and expand its footprint into new markets. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
Tech Crunch – US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for the first time
The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscriber mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a new report by the Record Industry Association of America…