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View More NewsCar accidents kill 100 Americans every day. But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars. Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example. Passengers who try them like them. Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast. Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per week—today 500,000. “The car did a better job than if somebody was driving!” says a passenger in my new video. Waymo claims its cars are 10 times safer than human-driven ones. I wouldn’t believe that if insurance companies, with their own money at stake, didn’t agree. Reinsurance News reports Waymos had an “88 percent reduction in property…
Almost all American students (84 percent) use AI at least “a few times a year,” while two-thirds use it monthly, according to a recent survey of 11,443 high-achieving students conducted by the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS). The survey also found that the percentage of students “not using AI at all” has dropped from 36 percent in 2024 to 6 percent in 2026, while almost half (49 percent) use AI daily or weekly. The most common usage of AI includes searching for information (55 percent), brainstorming (51 percent), and proofreading (31 percent). Other similar surveys also suggest that…
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A review of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours by Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano; 256 pages; Liveright (June 2026)The three essays in this new volume about Thomas Jefferson hope to show that Jefferson remains relevant to our time while they rescue him from trite generalisation. “Across generations,” write historians Onuf and Cogliano, “Americans have reinvented and reimagined Jefferson according to their contemporary needs and concerns, effectively taking him out of history and making them their contemporary.”A historiography follows that illustrates how Jefferson has often been used and misused as a flag of convenience, and…
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In brief Bitcoin clawed its way back to $60,000 Wednesday after falling below $58,000, its lowest level since September 2024. The rebound followed softer-than-expected…
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from the and-perhaps-not-for-long dept Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is…
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The US and Iran reached an interim deal to halt the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, removing the macro weight that has…
Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 10.09% on Sunday, marking the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment and easing some of the pressure on miners.Galaxy Research said…