Google has invested in fusion startups as potential power suppliers. This latest move suggests Google sees them as potential customers, too. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Rent a Cyber Friend will pay you to talk to strangers online and will show off its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
“Loneliness is the biggest disease in the world right now,” founder Francesco Vitali said. “So we built a platform where human time has value again, and a place where being human is…
Border Report – These South Texas lawmakers aren’t taking a paycheck during shutdown
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The federal government shutdown is in its third week. And some South Texas lawmakers tell Border Report they aren’t taking pay until the government resumes and other…
El Chuqueño Blog – Ninja Convention
The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to capture their parade on Montana last night. Kudos to Visit El Paso for landing the…
Tech Crunch – A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world
“The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most connected,” Zehra Naqvi told TechCrunch. “Now there is an abundance of…
El Paso Matters – Opinion: How MHP Salud’s community health workers help El Pasoans face health care fears
By Magaly “Maggie” Dante October is spooky season – a time when bats, ghosts and skeletons seem to be around every corner. But for the thousands of El Pasoans living without health…
The Border Chronicle – Cabeza de Vaca—Reincarnated as a Cactus
Subscribe now Still from Opuntia (2017). Courtesy of David Fenster. “Know that I was born, by the will of heaven, in this our iron age, to revive the one of gold, or…
Tech Crunch – Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs
Deel says it’s been profitable for three years and surpassed $1 billion in ARR, including having a month. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems
After struggling to retain customers at his e-commerce site Headphones.com, founder Andrew Lissimore built his own loyalty solution — and it’s now a startup called Lantern. The Shopify-native platform helps brands boost…
Tech Crunch – Apple loses another AI exec to Meta
Yang’s departure marks the latest in a string of exits from Apple’s AI unit, putting the company into jeopardy in the lead up to a much-anticipated Siri revamp scheduled for March. Read more:…