The Oregon House this week passed a right to repair bill by nearly a 3-to-1 margin at 42 votes to 13. If signed into law, the northwestern state wouldn’t be the first…
Tech Crunch – Monzo, the UK challenger bank with 9 million customers, raises $430 million
London-based fintech company Monzo raised a late stage funding round of $430 million (£340 million), confirming a report from the Financial Times from a few weeks ago. Following this round, the company…
Texas Monthly – A Texas Seventh Grader Was Crowned the Winner of Food Network’s ‘Kids Baking Championship’
WHO: Lila Smethurst, a seventh grader at Tex Hill Middle School, in San Antonio.WHAT: Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship, a baking-competition TV show in which young bakers, aged eight to thirteen this…
Tech Crunch – Waze now helps you navigate roundabouts, alerts you about speed limit changes and more
Waze is adding a few new features that will help users navigate tricky roundabouts, get alerts when a speed limit is about to change and get warnings about speed bumps and sharp…
Tech Crunch – Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019, wants to change the…
Tech Crunch – Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M
Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco thinks it’s a lot more than just a passing…
El Paso News Super Tuesday El Paso Election Tracker
Editor’s note: this article will be updated after 7:00pm as election results become available. Last updated at: 6:30am. Today is Election Day for the 2024 Primary. In El Paso, unlike the rest…
Tech Crunch – Binance to halt naira services amid ongoing regulatory probe in Nigeria
Binance will discontinue its naira (NGN) services in response to heightened regulatory scrutiny in Nigeria, it said in a blog post today. The cryptocurrency exchange will begin delisting any existing NGN spot…
Tech Crunch – Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
AI-powered video generation is a hot market on the back of OpenAI’s releasing Sora model last month. Two Deepmind alums Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang have publicly released their video generation tool…
Tech Crunch – SOLO’s new credit bureau concept helps lenders ditch third-party data
Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn’t have bank accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more: Read More