Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in the fall of 2022, the market for Twitter alternatives has been saturated with would-be competitors ranging from smaller startups to open source apps to well-funded efforts…
Tech Crunch – Anthropic launches a new premium plan aimed at businesses
Anthropic, the generative AI startup backed by Amazon and Google, is launching a new paid plan aimed at business customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more:…
Tech Crunch – Under $100 Expo+ passes to TechCrunch Disrupt are now available
Exciting news for those who want to experience the buzz of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco without breaking the bank or needing an extensive schedule! We’ve just released our Expo+ passes,…
Texas Monthly – Farmers Blame Mexico for the Closure of a Sugar Mill. But Is the Crop Right for Drought-Ridden Texas?
Historians believe that Spanish missionaries built the first sugar mill in Texas in the 1780s at Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, in present-day San Antonio. Four decades later, Stephen…
Texas Monthly – Ken Paxton Takes Manhattan
His job done in Texas—crime defeated, corruption accusations beaten, wrongdoing righted—Attorney General Ken Paxton traveled from Austin yesterday to a much deeper den of iniquity: Manhattan. “With President Trump in NYC to…
Texas Monthly – Black and Blue Beef Steak Pizza
Imagine perfect patio weather, a chilled glass of white wine (or your beverage of choice) and a table surrounded by good friends — add in the fresh and fun flavors of Black…
Tech Crunch – CMU is developing low-flying drones to map wildfires
A harsh truth: as bad as North American wildfires have grown over the past several years, things are only going to get worse. Climate change continues to accelerate the issue, putting people,…
Texas Monthly – Poppi Is Making Soda Cool Again
Fizzy drinks are at an inflection point. While traditional and diet sodas have been roundly demonized due to the adverse health effects of truly jaw-dropping amounts of sugar and artificial sweeteners such…
Tech Crunch – Belgium’s Aikido lands $17M Series A for its ‘no BS’ security platform aimed at developers
Developers have a problem. It used to be the case that only large enterprises needed to worry themselves with security, but today, every startup is capable of holding huge amounts of customer…
Tech Crunch – LinkedIn launches gaming: three logic puzzles aiming to extend time spent on its networking platform
Back in March, we broke the news that LinkedIn — the social network for the world of work — was quietly testing the waters for games on its platform, word and logic…