When Eric Johnson made headlines last September for leaving the Democratic Party for the Republican Party, I sent him a text asking if he’d talk. Johnson, a Dallas native who served six…
Tech Crunch – Light introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but still no addictive apps
Unlike Light’s older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera. © 2024 TechCrunch. All…
Texas Monthly – How Castroville Is Keeping Its Strong French (and German) Connection Alive
Spirits are high in the class I’m crashing on an April night at a community center in Castroville, a small town 25 miles west of San Antonio. About fifty of us, including…
Tech Crunch – The mystery of an alleged data broker’s data breach
Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data…
Tech Crunch – Crunchbase expands its diversity tracking feature to Europe
Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Education in crisis: Q&A with Texas school finance experts
As school districts across Texas – including El Paso – prepare to set their budgets for the 2024-25 school year, many are expecting their expenses to outweigh their revenue, leaving them with…
Tech Crunch – The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024
Today marked the kickoff of Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), the annual event where Apple announces some of the biggest features headed to its devices, apps and software. And this year’s WWDC…
Tech Crunch – Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing…
Texas Monthly – At This Anaplastology Lab, Each Lifelike Limb Is a Work of Art
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Mike Holt, who is 74, is an anaplastologist and owns ARTech Laboratory, a Midlothian workshop that creates custom silicone prostheses.I…
Tech Crunch – AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding
Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read…