Google announced a few updates around security on Thursday for Cybersecurity Awareness month with the aim of taking the “security burden off users.” The tech giant announced that it’s offering Android users…
Tech Crunch – Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. Hifi founder and CEO Damian Manning announced the news in a LinkedIn post yesterday. The…
Tech Crunch – Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M
Atlassian announced this morning that it is acquiring video messaging service Loom for $975 million, the same company that had a $1.53 billion valuation in May 2021 when it announced a $130…
Tech Crunch – Stock trading API developer Alpaca raises $15M convertible note from SBI Group
Investing apps help anyone access the stock market to make trades. Alpaca, a San Mateo-based startup, offers stock and crypto brokerage trading services via API that enables investing fintech companies and others…
Tech Crunch – Hook wants to help you create a legal remix of your favorite track for TikTok
The rise of short video apps has fueled people to use many tools to make their videos different by remixing popular songs. Many creators use tricks like speeding up, slowing down, or…
Texas Monthly – While We Were Sleeping: The Feds Say a Price-fixing Scheme Costs Texas Patients Tens of Millions
All doctor-patient relationships require trust, perhaps none so deep as the faith we place in anesthesiologists. We allow them to guide our vital processes, such as our breathing and heart rate, often…
Texas Monthly – The 13 Best Texas-Raised Wagyu Burgers
I’ve been covering Texas-raised Wagyu beef over the last year, and one question I’ve heard from readers is: What makes Wagyu beef any different than, say, prime-grade Angus beef? It’s about the…
Texas Monthly – The Endless Assassination of John F. Kennedy
I’m on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, a ring of corrugated boxes stacked so tightly around me I can practically breathe in their cardboard musk. Three more boxes…
Tech Crunch – Bedrock Energy thinks the solution to decarbonizing skyscrapers is 1,500 feet underground
Big buildings almost always have big carbon footprints, and getting the carbon out of heating and cooling is especially challenging. Geothermal might be the answer. Read more: Read More
El Paso Matters – Opinion: Response to evil attacks in Israel must include acts of kindness and charity, El Paso Rabbi says
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg You all know what happened in Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7. Israel’s mortal enemies perpetrated a heinous and barbaric attack of sheer evil that shocked the world. Rabbi…