At first I was charmed by the friendly white microflowers popping up in my backyard. And front yard. And sprouting along the sides of my house. If spotted only in passing, the…
Tech Crunch – Redwood Materials is partnering with Ultium Cells to recycle GM’s EV battery scrap
Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles. The company announced Thursday that it’s…
Tech Crunch – Lumos helps companies manage their employees’ identities — and access
Andrej Safundzic, Alan Flores Lopez and Leo Mehr met in a class at Stanford focusing on ethics, public policy and technological change. Safundzic — speaking to TechCrunch — says that the class…
Tech Crunch – Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
A new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. The company’s new app, which launched this week,…
El Paso Matters – As swim season nears, some El Paso pools struggle to find lifeguards
Kiara Jordan never envisioned she would become a lifeguard – let alone a certified lifeguard instructor – during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 28-year-old applied to become an assistant manager at the YWCA…
Tech Crunch – Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form
Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
KTSM News – Thursday 9-hour Forecast: Warm day before Memorial Day weekend begins
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Happy Thursday! We continue to forecast very warm temperatures as we approach Memorial Day weekend. This morning at around 11 a.m. we’ll start off with clear skies…
Tech Crunch – ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure
ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real changes to the rest of the computing system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Tech Crunch – Finout lands cash to grow its cloud spend management platform
In 2021, Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu and Yizhar Gilboa came together to found Finout, an enterprise-focused toolset to help manage and optimize cloud costs. (We covered the company’s launch out of stealth…
Tech Crunch – Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The…