AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - University of Texas System regents are expected Thursday to approve rules allowing concealed handguns in campus classrooms and buildings.
The rules are mandated by a state law that takes effect Aug. 1.
The most controversial rules have been at the flagship Austin campus, which would allow ...
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From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Spike Jonze's Her, for decades we have been obsessed with the idea that artificial intelligence powered-computers will one day be able to interact with people, follow spoken instructions and make decisions independently, like a human would. But while each new generation brings its lot of interesting new features or use cases, they are… Read More
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Donald Trump's meeting with congressional leaders Thursday isn't about endorsements, it's about the money, Republican strategists and fundraisers said.
The presumptive GOP nominee likely could not care less about racking up endorsements from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who are loathed by the party's ...
Astrobotic Technology, the company that plans to deliver payloads to the moon, has completed a $2.5 million seed round led by Space Angels Network. The company was originally spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 to compete for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP). As of today, they've secured 10 deals from governments, companies, universities, non-profits and individuals for their… Read More 
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Sen. Roy Blunt said negotiators are nearing a deal that would partially fund President Obama's $1.9 billion request for emergency spending to combat the Zika virus at home and abroad.
The emerging compromise by Mr. Blunt, Missouri Republican, and Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, would allow senators to vote on ...
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The following is an excerpt from The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology by William Mougayar. In it, Mougayar waxes ecstatic about the future of distributed databases. At its core, the blockchain is a technology that permanently records transactions in a way that cannot be later erased but can only be sequentially updated, in essence keeping… Read More 
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Donald Trump is not who GOP leaders imagined when they conducted their autopsy of what went wrong in the 2012 presidential election and laid out their path to retake the White House in 2016, beginning with a gentler approach to women and illegal immigrants.
The post-mortem — dubbed the Growth ...
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The healthcare industry, with its maddening inefficiencies and an economic model that incentivizes disease care over health care, desperately needs a Silicon Valley-style overhaul. Why is the nation's $3 trillion creaky, monstrous and convoluted healthcare sector seemingly impervious to technological change? Read More 
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Senate has passed a bill that would make it a crime to electronically track a vehicle without the owner's consent.
The Senate passed it unanimously on Wednesday.
Sen. Maryellen Goodwin, the Providence Democrat who sponsored the bill, says it's aimed at protecting stalking ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's business lobby says it wants changes to a state law that limits protections to LGBT people, but only a provision that blocks workplace discrimination lawsuits from state courts.
The state chamber of commerce said Wednesday it thinks state courts should again consider cases by ...
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Google is moving beyond Cardboard. The company will reportedly be announcing a standalone Android VR headset at next week's Google I/O event. Tech journalist Peter Rojas has tweeted that Google will launch an untethered Android VR headset next week according to his multiple sources. Android VR will definitely be announced next week, and from what I've heard will be… Read More 
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A recent lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explored the possible impact of Islamophobia on global warming.
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WEST TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he thinks it's "highly doubtful" that he will be included on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal.
Christie said Wednesday that he doesn't think he's on the list because he didn't know what ...
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Airbnb is under fire for allowing hosts on its platform to list homes in Israel's occupied territories. And today the issue became the subject of a protest at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, after one of its board members took the stage for an interview. Sequoia's Alfred Lin was interrupted by a protester brandishing a banner with the words "Airbnb hosts… Read More 
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