Texas House Unanimously Oks $178.4 Billion Budget Plan

When it comes to how a sale of Tattered Cover to Barnes & Noble would change the storied Denver bookstore, James Daunt is insistent: that will be up to the team managing and staffing the business. Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble, was in Denver Friday and Saturday to talk to Tattered Cover’s booksellers, or employees.

A 50-year-old Utah man was killed in a rafting accident on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado, National Park Service officials said Friday. Federal officials learned that a raft was pinned on a rock in the Hell’s Half Mile rapid around 4 p.m. Thursday and that one person was missing and likely pinned under the raft, according to a news release. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Colorado’s 10 best dinosaur destinations, from museums to track sites and quarries The group, part of a private permitted trip, were later able to unpin and recover the boat.

BERLIN — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she’d miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read and always shares his wisdom, Bommer recalled during a recent interview with The Associated Press at his home in a leafy Berlin suburb. That conversation sparked an idea for Bommer: Recreate his voice using artificial intelligence to survive him after he passed away. The 61-year-old startup entrepreneur teamed up with his friend in the U.

Apple, Microsoft and Google are heralding a new era of what they describe as artificially intelligent smartphones and computers. The devices, they say, will automate tasks like editing photos and wishing a friend a happy birthday. But to make that work, these companies need something from you: more data. In this new paradigm, your Windows computer will take a screenshot of everything you do every few seconds.

If DaRon Holmes calls you a legend, don’t be too flattered. It’s nothing personal. It’s just Holmes’ all-encompassing expression, his hello and goodbye. It started in high school. By the end of college, it was practically a comprehensive attitude on life. “Every time he saw you, every time you did something, it’s: ‘You’re a legend.

Baseball is timeless and the Rockies are shameless. It didn’t take long to draw this conclusion (again) during the bottom of seventh inning Wednesday. Watching the game vs. the Astros, the question wasn’t whether the Rockies would lose, but exactly how sloppy their play would become. Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar, a lighthouse in a storm of incompetence this season, lost focus, failing to give way to the center fielder on a popup that dropped for a single, then throwing home on a ground ball when there was clearly no play.