Mindy Meng Wang on the ‘disorienting’ experience of her father’s funeral – and the Chinese cyber-opera it inspired

The guzheng virtuoso remembers being shocked by the traditional ceremony in north-western China. Now she’s processing it on stage ...

Pixalto.app Launches All-in-One AI Platform with Video, Image, and Design Creation Tools ‘Imagine. Generate. Innovate.’

With Pixalto’s exclusive in-house technology, we’ve made it possible to seamlessly swap multiple faces within a single ...
The Gazette

Freedom Festival Military Tribute Banner Program returns to Cedar Rapids to honor veterans, active duty military in 2026

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The Freedom Festival — best known for putting on Fourth of July festivities in Cedar ...
The Gazette

Iowa to participate in Summer EBT in 2026 after state program reached far fewer children

Cedar River Academy kitchen manager Teresa Murray bags up food during the Healthy Kids Iowa program event in Cedar Rapids on June 17, 2025. During the program each eligible child receives $40 worth of ...
BBC

'Life and soul of any room he was in': Stone Roses' Ian Brown pays tribute to Mani at funeral

We've been covering the funeral of Gary "Mani" Mounfield, the much-adored bassist of The Stone Roses, who died last month at the age of 63. The band's lead singer Ian Brown told the BBC Mani had been ...
fox13now

Ribbit ribbit! Artificial Intelligence programs used by Heber City police claim officer turned into a frog

HEBER CITY, Utah — An artificial intelligence that writes police reports had some explaining to do earlier this month after it claimed a Heber City officer had shape-shifted into a frog. However, the ...