75 years of concrete: Inside a record-breaking Tacoma powerhouse

On Monday, The News Tribune visited Concrete Technology Corp.’s manufacturing site at 1123 Port of Tacoma Road. In the ...

No accreditation and $74M in debt. Here’s what St. Augustine’s is selling now

St. Augustine’s University is bankrupt, unaccredited, and $74 million in debt. The university is offering eight fully online ...

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.
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House Reconciliation Bill Proposes Deepest SNAP Cut in History, Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income Families

As a share of the program, the cut would be about twice the size of the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in 1996. [2] And these extreme cuts are deeper than the $230 billion in cuts the budget ...