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The experts of Emmy® nominated series ASK THIS OLD HOUSE® travel the country to tackle everyday home improvement projects. Richard Trethewey, host Kevin O’Connor, Roger Cook and Tom Silva answer homeowner questions with house calls.

ASK THIS OLD HOUSE: Houston After Harvey

Airs Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The village of Funningur is one of the scenic delights of the Faroe Islands. The archipelago's tourist board has a campaign for better Google Street View mapping called SheepView 360.

'Sheep View' Campaign Calls On Google To Photograph Roads In Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands tourism board launched a campaign called Sheep View 360, shot by attaching cameras to some of the archipelago's many sheep.

Heather Martin (left) was a student at Columbine High School in 1999. She met Sherrie Lawson, who worked at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard in 2013 during the shooting there, through Martin's support organization, the Rebels Project.

After Columbine, An Unlikely Friendship Bound By The Trauma Of Mass Shootings

Over the past 20 years, mass shootings have resulted in communities of survivors. Heather Martin, who was a senior at Columbine High School in 1999, runs a nonprofit that connects them.

Equifax is facing criticism because after the security incident it chose to create an entirely new domain for customers to check whether they were affected.

After Massive Data Breach, Equifax Directed Customers To Fake Site

The credit reporting agency set up a website to help people determine whether they had been affected by a cyberattack. But on Twitter, Equifax repeatedly pointed people to a phishing site.

Google's self-driving prototype car can be found cruising the streets near the Internet company's Silicon Valley headquarters to test programming responses to a variety of situations.

Google's Traffic Stop: A Crash Course In Self-Driving Concerns

California police pulling over Google's self-driving car is just the latest buzz surrounding autonomous vehicles. How will these cars respond to the variables found in a daily commute?

An autonomous tank is demonstrated in France last month. Leading researchers in artificial intelligence are calling for laws against lethal autonomous weapons. They also pledge not to work on such weapons.

AI Innovators Take Pledge Against Autonomous Killer Weapons

"We will neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of" artificial intelligence that is used to kill people, leading AI researchers vowed.

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019.

49 Killed At Mosques In 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days'

At least 49 people were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday — most if not all of them gunned down by an immigrant-hating white supremacist who apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live video of the slaughter on Facebook.

A blue line trolley departing from America Plaza, May 10, 2016.

Ridership Rebounding, Public Transit In San Diego Is Having A Moment

San Diego's public transit system has been struggling with declining ridership for the past few years. But recent data suggest that trend may be ending — and a host of local policy reforms may be planting the seeds for stronger transit ridership in future years.

Richard Oakes, seen in November 1970, led a group that occupied Alcatraz from November 1969 to June 1971.

Richard Oakes, Who Occupied Alcatraz For Native Rights, Gets A Birthday Honor

The late activist and Google doodle honoree stormed the island with dozens of other activists in 1969, citing a century-old treaty in claiming it for Native Americans. He would have been 75 on Monday.

John S. Adams silhouetted in the Montana Capitol building.

POV: Dark Money

Airs Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

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