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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s 2019 law prohibiting licensed health care professionals from providing so-called conversion ...

Spotify on Wednesday upgraded its AI DJ feature — available to Premium subscribers — with a handful of new features, including the ability to send in your requests by typing, not just using voice ...

A popular internet cartoon depicts a young woman standing in front of a priest. “Father, I’m lesbian,” she says. The priest responds, “Ask God for help to cure you from that sin!” The woman falls to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a dear sister who is 50. She is a busy professional and homemaker. I am her 65-year-old brother, living about four hours away, also well-educated. We have a very good ...

Based on oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

Based on oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

Is counseling free speech? That was the question at the Supreme Court in a dispute over Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” A 2019 law says counselors can’t try to change a minor client’s gender ...

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about whether a Colorado law banning “conversion therapy”—that is, efforts by psychologists or counselors to get people to change their sexual ...