Q: It wasn’t until I moved “abroad” that I discovered everybody outside of Texas calls a corny dog a corn dog. What gives? Brock Hyland, Little Rock, ArkansasA: Texan, as we call the native…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPCC BUDGET AND SALARIES
El Paso Community College was established by the voters of El Paso County in 1969. The Texas Legislature appropriated funds in 1971 and classes began that fall with 901 students enrolled. The…
Tech Crunch – Apple adds USB-C, but cuts features in new $79 Apple Pencil
Apple today announced a new Apple Pencil that offers USB-C and a lower price. But this isn’t an upgraded version of the Apple Pencil. This version lacks some of the advanced features…
Tech Crunch – Prove Identity nabs $40M at a “unicorn status” valuation to expand in mobile-based authentication tech
Prove Identity, the smartphone-based identity verification startup that originally made its name years ago as Payfone before rebranding in 2020, has raised $40 million. According to the company, the funding is coming…
Tech Crunch – YouTube debuts new playback controls and creator-focused features
YouTube is rolling out a new set of features for better mobile-based playback, song search, and creator-friendly tools, including a feature that will highlight the “like and subscribe” buttons when a creator…
Tech Crunch – K2 Space is building a power-rich future for space exploration based on the premise that bigger is better
Los Angeles-based K2 Space is accelerating its path to orbit with fresh venture funding, new defense contracts and a satellite architecture that will be capable of delivering staggering power levels in a…
Tech Crunch – Swsh’s new app helps you maintain your friendships through polls and games
Ever since BeReal became popular among Gen Zers, giving them a platform to be their true selves rather than scrolling through heavily edited content, there’s been a rise in social apps that…
Tech Crunch – AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
Nearly a year ago, developers Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros released a hobby project called Riffusion that could generate music using not audio but images of audio. It sounds counterintuitive (no pun…
Texas Monthly – 8 Texas Bookstore Cafes Worth Digging Into
In 1995, a Barnes & Noble opened twenty miles from my small hometown of Mustang, Oklahoma. I still remember my first visit, ambling through aisles and ordering a cappuccino and a croissant…
Tech Crunch – Nirvana nabs $57M to make AI inroads into commercial trucking insurance
Nirvana Insurance — an insurance startup taking a new approach to insurance products for commercial fleets using artificial intelligence, telematics, internet-of-things technology and 15 billion miles of trucking data to calculate risk…