A disembodied woman’s head mugged and grimaced, aping the facial expressions of a user on a nearby laptop as visitors to the China Humanoid Robot Developer Conference watched in fascinated unease.

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – April 21, 2024 In the summer of 2022, a new restaurant began serving high-quality, but shockingly affordable Mediterranean dishes at a food truck park in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. For as little as $6.99, customers could get bowls of Za’atar chicken, shredded lamb, or chickpea falafel served on beds of rice with sauces...

In his famous essay, “The Age of Reason,” American Founding Father and deist, Thomas Paine, sharply critiqued organized religion in general, and Christian theology in particular.

Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.

By: Peter Landers – wsj.com – April 7, 2024 Telecommunications company NTT and leading newspaper Yomiuri to issue manifesto calling for new laws to restrain generative AI. TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. The Japanese companies’...

By: Jean M. Twenge – nationalreview.com – March 28, 2024 Parents need government to help protect children from social-media tyranny Imagine that a company began mass-producing a new toy. This was not a toy for little kids; instead, it appealed most to adolescents. The toy became wildly popular, first with teens and eventually with younger children as well. The toy...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told CNN on Monday that President Biden is a greater “threat to democracy” than Donald Trump.”I can make the argument that President Biden is much worse,” Kennedy said. “And the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies...

By: Ted Cruz and Phil Gramm – wsj.com – March 25, 2024 Bill Clinton’s regulators, by contrast, produced prosperity by encouraging freedom on the internet. The arrival of a new productive technology doesn’t guarantee prosperity. Prosperity requires a system, governed by the rule of law, in which economic actors can freely implement a productive idea and compete for customers and investors....

By: Jeff Charles – redstate.com – March 24, 2024 The ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence has brought with it numerous different concerns. From fears about AI replacing jobs to more extreme concerns about the technology evolving to the point where it replicates the “Terminator” film franchise, the advent of AI has been exciting and terrifying at the same time. Another serious issue many point...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 20, 2024 The Environmental Protection Agency somewhat eased CO2 emissions requirements through 2030 from its proposal last spring while maintaining essentially the same end-point for 2032. That means gas-powered cars can make up no more than 30% of auto sales by 2032. Make no mistake: This is a coerced phase-out of gas-powered...