Soft watercolor smudges of vibrant red, turquoise, and yellow sprawl across the first pages of the children’s book Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Head in hand, Smith’s young protagonist, Jenna, imagines…
Texas Monthly – The Saltiest Cowboys In All of Bandera
So many rodeo champions hail from Bandera County that the monument on the courthouse lawn has no more room for names on its bronze plaque. A small town about an hour’s drive…
Texas Monthly – Smoked Oxtails Are As Addictive As Potato Chips
Every Thursday morning Charles Brewer procures sliced oxtails from his local H-E-B. He sprinkles them liberally with TexJoy barbecue seasoning, then adds extra dashes of paprika and onion powder. After that, he…
Tech Crunch – China’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context
The race to build the next big large language model is on, and now a contender out of China has reportedly banked a major round of funding to catapult it to the…
Tech Crunch – Apple launches a new app for tracking sports scores, stats
Apple today is continuing its investment in sports and subscriptions business with the launch of a new app for iPhone users, Apple Sports. The app will offer sports fans access to real-time…
Tech Crunch – Apple readies iMessage for when quantum computers could break encryption
Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming years,…
Tech Crunch – Goldman Sachs bets on Simetrik’s payments infrastructure tech
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Tech Crunch – Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as the Santa Clara, California-based…
Tech Crunch – This startup is using AI to discover new materials
While the world fixates on text-, image- and movie-generating AI, a startup headed by a former DeepMind senior researcher is developing GenAI tech to support the manufacturing of new physical materials. Orbital…
Tech Crunch – Carbon capture startup takes ‘good enough’ approach to slash costs
Clairity is one of the latest entrants into the direct air capture market, where companies compete to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at the lowest cost. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…