Meta’s newer social network Threads announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a dedicated “media” tab for both photos and videos, only days after its rivals, including X (formerly Twitter) and the startup…
Tech Crunch – Mark Zuckerberg teases a 2025 return to ‘OG Facebook’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a “return to OG Facebook” as part of his key goals for 2025 in Wednesday’s Q4 earnings call with investors. While the company was short on details…
Tech Crunch – Data center operator DataBank nets $250M equity investment
The data center market is booming, driven by AI demand. Just last week, OpenAI said that it plans to team up with backers including SoftBank to spend at least $100 billion on…
Texas Monthly – A Museum Exhibit Challenges the Myth of the White Cowboy. It Opens With a Trigger Warning.
In early October, the photographer and Dallas-area native Fabian Guerrero got a curious message from some friends. They had visited the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in Fort Worth, to see…
Tech Crunch – Ex-Autodesk execs snag $46M to build the next gen of architecture design
Talk to many architects, and they’ll likely tell you that Autodesk’s software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been indispensable to their work for decades. But despite their widespread use, Autodesk’s former co-CEO…
Texas Monthly – Meanwhile, in Texas: Someone Put a Seat Belt on That Horse!
A video of a horse riding in the back seat of a pickup truck in Fort Worth went viral on social media, with one viewer commenting “living in fort worth this normal…
Tech Crunch – International police coalition takes down two prolific cybercrime and hacking forums
Authorities said the two forums — Cracked and Nulled — had more than 10 million users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Texas Monthly – At Schilo’s, the Split Pea Soup Is Hot and the Root Beer Ice-Cold
When Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys sang the eponymous refrain in their 1940 classic “Time Changes Everything,” they were mostly telling the truth. Mostly. But the King of Western Swing had…
Tech Crunch – Amazon hikes prices for its Music Unlimited subscriptions
Amazon is the latest company to announce a price hike for its music streaming subscriptions. The company revealed this week that the price of an Amazon Music Unlimited Individual plan for Prime…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI will offer its tech to US national labs for nuclear weapons research
OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories, the Department of Energy’s network of R&D labs, use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects. Per CNBC, OpenAI…