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On a recent afternoon, I held a bagel in front of me and said: “Look and tell me if this is healthy.” A monotone voice responded that the bagel was unhealthy because it was high in carbohydrates, which could contribute to weight gain. I wasn’t talking to a tech bro obsessed with the ketogenic diet. This was the Ai Pin, a $700 tiny computer featuring a virtual assistant pulling data from OpenAI (the research firm behind the ChatGPT chatbot), Google, Microsoft and others to answer questions and perform tasks. Shaped like a lapel pin that may be a throwback to…

With everything a smartphone can do these days, it is often easy to overlook one of the device’s most basic functions: voice calls. Communicating by telephone has become more complicated in a world of robocalls and automated voice trees, but your phone may already have the tools to make talking to people (or not) easier. Here are a few suggestions. Quickly contact businesses Need to call a business that is not in your contacts list? Just search for the company online with Apple’s Siri, the Google Assistant (or its new Gemini helper) or Samsung’s Bixby. When you see the establishment…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN (Associated Press) DENVER — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run. Twenty-five years later, and with Mendo now a mother herself, the trauma from that horrific day remains close on her heels. It caught up to her when 60 people were shot dead in 2017 at a country music festival in Las Vegas, a city she had visited a lot while working in the casino industry.…

WASHINGTON — Don Beyer’s car dealerships were among the first in the U.S. to set up a website. As a representative, the Virginia Democrat leads a bipartisan group focused on promoting fusion energy. He reads books about geometry for fun. So when questions about regulating artificial intelligence emerged, the 73-year-old Beyer took what for him seemed like an obvious step, enrolling at George Mason University to get a master’s degree in machine learning. In an era when lawmakers and Supreme Court justices sometimes concede they don’t understand emerging technology, Beyer’s journey is an outlier, but it highlights a broader effort…

The Rockies series opener against the Mariners on Friday at Coors Field was postponed due to inclement weather. Friday’s game will be made up on Sunday as a split doubleheader. Game 1 begins at 1:10 p.m., while Game 2 begins at 6:10 p.m. Tickets from Friday’s game will be good for Sunday’s nightcap. Friday night’s weather in LoDo called for around 35 degrees and cloudy at first pitch, with a chance of one to three inches of snow later in the evening. Saturday is also supposed to be cold, but the anticipation is the 6:10 p.m. game will be played…

Nathan MacKinnon did not become one of five players to ever record 100 assists in an NHL season. He did not score the most goals in the league in nearly 30 years. He is still going to win the Hart Trophy or the Ted Lindsay Award (or both) as the NHL’s most valuable player for the first time in his career, and will do so despite going up against one of the greatest fields of candidates the league has ever seen. There are four candidates — MacKinnon, Auston Matthews, Connor McDavid and Nikita Kucherov — who had extraordinary seasons, and…

Reconstruction and trail improvement on the iconic Hanging Lake trail in Glenwood Canyon and the nearby Grizzly Creek trail will begin in May, resulting in frequent closures through the summer hiking season. Those projects, which have been planned to repair damage from the Grizzly Creek wildfire in 2020 and resulting debris flows in 2021, were previously announced. Details regarding trail availability were revealed on Friday by the White River National Forest and Visit Glenwood Springs. The Hanging Lake trail will be closed on weekdays and some weekends, according to a news release from the White River National Forest. Construction is…

A former Poudre School District paraprofessional was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and two years in jail after pleading guilty to assault on an at-risk person, harassment and child abuse for hitting disabled students as they rode the school bus. Tyler Zanella pleaded guilty on Jan. 29 to seven counts of third-degree assault on an at-risk person, two counts of child abuse and two counts of harassment. The assault charges are felonies while the child abuse and harassment charges are misdemeanors. Zanella, 37, was arrested in May after police found evidence he hit a non-verbal autistic child on…

From Tim Duncan to Kevin Garnett and Steph Curry, LeBron James’ 21-year NBA career has featured postseason matchups against some of the best to ever do it. For the Lakers forward, Nikola Jokic is right there among them. “He’s one of the best players to ever play this game. It’s that simple,” James said after practice on Friday at Ball Arena. James said he feels healthier than last year when Los Angeles got swept by the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals. And that’s essential when trying to match Jokic’s physicality for 40 minutes on the court. James, a four-time…

With the draft merely days away, there’s still no clear idea of what the Broncos will do at No. 12 overall in the first round. Denver is open to doing anything, whether it’s trading up, down, or standing pat with its eight draft picks. Since doing this mock draft exercise, we’ve explored each scenario and how Denver could capitalize from them. In the final Broncos’ seven-round mock draft, we look at what happens if the team invests in adding playmakers on offense. (Previous mock drafts: Aggressively pursuing a QB | Trading back in first round | Post-combine mock draft |…