The startup is developing a proprietary method that enables bacteria to “breathe without oxygen” inside a bioreactor. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – City Council deletes item asking for removal of commercial trucks, pollution at ‘Puente Libre’
The El Paso City Council on Tuesday shot down an effort to eliminate from the Bridge of the Americas all commercial truck traffic – and the pollution that idling trucks emit into…
Tech Crunch – Google releases GenAI tools for music creation
As GenAI tools begin to transform the music industry in incredible — and in some cases ethically problematic — ways, Google is ramping up its investments in AI tech to create new…
Tech Crunch – Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally
Google announced today that its Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally with support for over 40 languages including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish,…
Tech Crunch – Google launches an AI-powered image generator
Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, TextFX, for image creation. Underpinned by Imagen 2, a GenAI image model developed by Google’s DeepMind team, TextFX offers a…
Texas Monthly – Great Fish Tacos in the West Texas Desert? You Better Believe It.
Adriana and Roberto Equihua never imagined they’d open a restaurant in the Big Bend. The Tijuana natives and San Diego residents had spent time in the Texas border regions as lawyers—Adriana as…
Tech Crunch – 5 ways construction tech founders can win in 2024
Construction tech founders should consider how their products can serve construction and real estate customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Okta lays off 400 employees — almost exactly a year after last staff cuts
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta has said it is laying off approximately 400 employees, or 7% of its global workforce. The layoffs come almost exactly a year to the day…
Tech Crunch – AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more “open” than others —…
Tech Crunch – Cast your votes for TC Early Stage Audience Choice Roundtables
A not-so-humble brag here, so brace yourself. The programming at TechCrunch Early Stage — April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts — is gonna be off the proverbial hook. How do we know? We…