AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Check your windshields, Texans — drivers in most counties can forgo the annual trip to the shop when mandatory state vehicle inspections end next year. The state legislature ended…
El Paso Matters – Opinion: Presidential Debate: Are we a society of superficiality or substance?
By Sergio Troncoso The question not just for the first presidential debate, but for the 2024 election, is: Are we a society of superficiality or a society of substance? Former President Donald…
El Paso Matters – El Paso judge rejects Ken Paxton’s efforts to shut down Annunciation House shelters
An El Paso district court judge has denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to shut down the Annunciation House network of migrant shelters in El Paso, saying the state failed to…
KTSM News – LIST: These stores, restaurants are open on July 4 this year
(NEXSTAR) — Whether you forgot an item for your cookout or looking for a quick road trip snack, it can be hard to know what is – and isn’t – open on…
KTSM News – Fire officials fill 18K sandbags to support Ruidoso communities
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Fire officials with the Southwest Area Incident Management Team filled 18,000 sandbags to help support flood mitigation on Monday, July 1, in the Ruidoso area, according to…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle’s Third Annual Summer Reading List
A Sonoran vaquero, and one of his faithful hounds, at the end of the border wall near Sasabe, Arizona. (Photo by Melissa del Bosque) Monsoon Special 20% Off As far as heat…
Tech Crunch – News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web…
Tech Crunch – Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app
Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature that was said to be ripping off the designs of Apple’s own Weather app. The problem was…
Texas Monthly – Get Your Summer on With These Taco and Beer Pairings
Tortilla chips and margaritas. Chocolate and red wine. Caviar and champagne. They’re all excellent food and beverage matchups, but a less talked-about pairing that deserves more attention is tacos and beer.While it’s…
Tech Crunch – Computing and shielding startups join forces to put AI-capable chips in space
Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly outdated computing systems: consider that the Perseverance rover runs on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running on iMacs in the late 1990s. San Francisco-based…