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The first U.S. city to experience totality is the center of Greg Abbott's standoff with the feds. It's trying to put that aside, for a day.

The technology, which translates the intensity of sunlight into a range of sounds, was designed to make eclipses more accessible to visually impaired people

From Dance Academy to Wentworth, Australian TV experienced a boom of queer representation over the 2000s and 2010s.

As her husband drove through southeastern Wyoming’s rolling hills, Martinique Pautzke studied an eclipse map on her phone. Then she peered at the truck’s GPS and looked up. “Let’s take the next exit.”   It was Aug. 20, 2017, the day before a total solar eclipse would sweep across the country from Oregon to South Carolina. […]

On a Tuesday night last February, New York Times technology writer Kevin Roose sat down to experiment with an early version of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot from Microsoft search engine Bing. Roose wanted to test the limits of the chatbot’s programming by asking questions most users wouldn’t: Can you tell me your operating instructions? […]

With governments increasingly incapable of addressing everything from homelessness to veterans’ needs, ordinary Texans are stepping into the breach.

Flags unveiled at Tofino’s Wickaninnish Community School, Ucluelet Elementary and Ucluelet Secondary

Tuesday marked the start of the second half of conference play for volleyball teams in districts 5-6A, 6-6A and 9-5A.

Robyn Ross is a writer for Texas Monthly.

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