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…
Tech Crunch – LinkedIn amps up vertical video tools as uploads jump 36%
Video reigns supreme on social media like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. And now, video is becoming a bigger business for LinkedIn. The Microsoft-owned social network for the working world has yet to…
Tech Crunch – Walkstar is a new iOS app that pauses songs when you stop moving
There are plenty of pedometer and step counter apps in the world, but this new app has a fun twist. Walkstar, which launched Tuesday in the App Store, enhances your workout by…
Tech Crunch – Canada’s StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform
While the U.S. and Canada duke it out over tariffs between the two countries, a tech company based out of Toronto is announcing a major round of funding led by a homegrown…