The air had turned frigid thanks to an arctic front that had muscled its way down to San Antonio, but steaming hot water beckoned. My wife and I carefully climbed three icy…
Texas Monthly – Brothers Open New Store for Their Smokers in the Barbecue Mecca of Lockhart
When Caleb and Matt Johnson opened Lockhart’s Mill Scale Metalworks, in 2018, customers had to spend the price of a small car to buy one of the company’s commercial offset smokers, sight…
Tech Crunch – India’s Paytm secures third-party app license ahead of bank unit curb
The National Payments Corporation of India, the firm that built the eponymous UPI rail in the country, approved Paytm’s application to participate in the payments ecosystem as a third-party application provider, delivering…
KTSM News – EPPD issues amber alert for missing 2-year-old after taken by father, police say
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso Police Department issued a local amber alert Thursday morning, March 14 for a missing 2-year-old boy. The Crimes Against Persons unit is seeking assistance…
Tech Crunch – Instagram is working on a feature that would allow you to let others put a ‘Spin’ on your Reel
Instagram is working on a “Spins” feature for Reels, its short-form video TikTok clone, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The feature, which was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, would allow…
Tech Crunch – EU dials up scrutiny of major platforms over GenAI risks ahead of elections
The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information (RFI) to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X about how they’re handling risks related to the use of generative…
Tech Crunch – Aethero wants to become the space industry’s Intel or Nvidia
Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of raw data, but on-orbit compute limitations mean that operators have little way to process this data in space. Aethero, a startup founded 13 months ago,…
Tech Crunch – Former web3 gaming founders raise $2.5M for their NFT marketplace to retain users even when there ‘isn’t money to be made’
Even though NFT sales volume is still down 88% from 2022 all time-highs (and down 38% year-to-date), Pallet Exchange is building a new type of NFT marketplace focused on user retention. And…
Texas Monthly – A Deposed Texas Republican’s Lament About Slander and Corruption
State representative Glenn Rogers wants to confiscate your firearms and create a registry of firearm owners. So said the large, red-type message on a glossy mailer sent to voters’ homes in his…
Texas Monthly – Jesse Plemons’s 13 Most Unforgettable Roles
Talk to anyone who’s ever worked with Jesse Plemons—a list that includes some of the biggest names in film and television—and they inevitably will tell you that he doesn’t act. “He simply…