The running started around 6:47 p.m. The destination, an onstage conversation between home renovation megacelebrities Chip and Joanna Gaines, wouldn’t materialize for another 43 minutes, but security had just let in the…
Texas Monthly – Wembymania Achieves Liftoff—Barely
In the middle of the third quarter of the San Antonio Spurs’ home opener, the stands seemed to blanch. A wave of seats across the bleachers became vacant, covered only by the…
Tech Crunch – SBF testifying, bitcoin rises amid spot ETF speculation and Walmart’s web3 accelerator surfaces
It’s week four of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial…and he’s taking the stand today at 2 p.m. So keep an eye out for additional coverage. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Border Report – Sens. Cornyn, Cruz to lead GOP tour of South Texas border
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Texas’ U.S. senators this week are to lead a tour of the South Texas border with fellow Republican senators. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are…
Tech Crunch – Threads isn’t dead and it now has polls and GIFs too
Meta’s X rival, Instagram Threads, is copying a couple more X features today with the launch of support for polls and GIFs. The update comes in rapid succession to other releases for…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI forms team to study ‘catastrophic’ AI risks, including nuclear threats
OpenAI today announced that it’s created a new team to assess, evaluate and probe AI models to protect against what it describes as “catastrophic risks.” The team, called Preparedness, will be led…
Tech Crunch – There could be a simple reason why seed deals are so expensive today
It seems that as long as rapid revenue growth is possible in the earliest stages of startup life, valuations are going to be strong. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
The Border Chronicle – From the Gazan Laboratory to the World’s Borders: A Conversation with Jeff Halper
Subscribe now An Israeli soldier near the Gaza border wall (Photo Credit: Aris Messinis AFP/via Getty Images). Share In 2012, at a border security conference I attended in El Paso, Israeli brigadier…
Tech Crunch – Agora enables brands to host live shopping events and auctions
Agora, the company that develops “real-time engagement” APIs, is making its livestream shopping technology widely available to help more brands build live commerce experiences, including shoppable shows, live auctions, personal shopper livestreams,…
Texas Monthly – Texas high school principal cleared of child abuse charges after paddling student
The East Texas school leader was following school district policy — and state law — which allows for corporal punishment. Texas is one of 17 states that allows it, despite one Democrats…