Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole
The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – YC-backed food supply startup Vendease restructures employees’ salaries
Y Combinator-backed Nigerian food procurement startup Vendease has changed its employee pay structure and is seeking fresh capital, TechCrunch has learned. This is after laying off 44% of its workforce — around…
Tech Crunch – GrubMarket raises $50M at a $3.5B+ valuation to build AI for the $1 trillion food distribution industry
U.S. President Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid other uncertainty — actions that will inevitably impact the technology sector, too. Today, however, one food e-commerce…
Tech Crunch – Google, Speedinvest back Kenya’s Leta, which uses AI to make logistics cheaper
African businesses pay up to four times the global average to transport goods. Nairobi-based logistics SaaS provider Leta wants to change that. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only….
KTSM News – Call center evacuated after report of gas odor
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A call center in East El Paso had to be evacuated Monday night, March 17 after the smell of gas was reported, the El Paso Fire Department…
Tech Crunch – Waymo’s milestone SFO mapping permit comes with strings attached
Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step in the Alphabet company’s bid to unlock a potentially…
Yard Barker – Jeff Brohm, Louisville gets massive win by landing state’s top recruit
Evan Hampton, four-star running back from Owensboro, Kentucky, has committed to Louisville. Kentucky, Michigan, Vanderbilt and NC State were also in the mix. Read: Read More
KTSM News – String of dust storms pose risk to physical health, AC units
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — El Paso is under a Weather Authority Alert for another dust storm, which seem to be lining up one after another this February and March. Experts say…
Yard Barker – Bill Belichick, UNC flip four-star recruit from Texas A&M
Bill Belichick and the North Carolina Tar Heels put on a full-court press for four-star defensive lineman Trashawn Ruffin, and it paid off in a big way. Read: Read More