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Eight travel startups announced more than $1 billion in funding in the past two weeks, led by a company developing fully autonomous vehicles.

President Joe Biden trumpets a falling violent crime rate, but FBI raw data tells a different story.

Broken trust breaks many things. There will be ugly consequences of California's and New York's attack on this fundamental principle.

Mike McRaes Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas is short, sweet, often humorous and to the point. Its also pithy and full of quote-worthy sentences:"Since most of the face-like patterns Mary sees every day are indeed faces, her brains gamble usually pays off.

Colorado’s growing industry of Bad Ideas is now pursuing jailhouse ballot collection services for inmates who haven’t committed serious enough crimes to lose their right to vote. Sure, non-felons can already vote. But leftist advocates insist our incarcerated citizens are too stupid to do mail in

A model example of Ukraine’s thriving tech sector, Emmy award winning Respeecher only uses AI voice technology where it has the actor’s or family’s consent.

The major dictionaries have announced their “words of the year”—believe it or not. Pantone announces its Color of the Year. A new book tells the long-lost story of the American military’s World War II troop newspapers. A new poster series celebrates NYC’s design community. St. Pancras train station’s Christmas tree display is a tower of hand-painted books. A new card game uses creativity to help generate good ideas. The USPS is releasing a series of Dungeons & Dragons stamps. A selec...

Ukrainian synthetic voice startup Respeecher is finding success despite not just bombs raining down on their city, but a wave of hype that has raised up

Turns out subjecting presidential aspirants to libertarian-flavored scrutiny is good for journalism! And sanity.

Turns out subjecting presidential aspirants to libertarian-flavored scrutiny is good for journalism! And sanity.