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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) is something of a gadfly to Silicon Valley.  Even in his days as Missouri's Attorney General, he investigated the likes of Google for violating state consumer-protection laws.  In an editorial published online recently by the journal of religion and public life First Things...


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On Monday night, June 8, Iranian forces shot down a U. S. helicopter with a two-member crew aboard off the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz.  Presumably they bailed out with life jackets or some other means of flotation, but their prospects for rescue were uncertain, to say the least. 


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What have a Greek philosopher who lived about 2300 years ago, a Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher who died in 1274 A. D., and artificial intelligence (AI) got to do with each other?  Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.  What I have to say is no joke, however, because if we don't heed the wisdom of these two parti...


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Pardon the bad pun.  But imagine that you've taken one of the new driverless Waymo taxis from the San Antonio airport right after a big rain.  The car exits the freeway, and on the access road ahead you see where a nearby stream has overflowed, and water the color of coffee with cream is rushing across th...


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Trapped Under the Sea is the most exciting book you'll ever read about a sewage plant.  Let me explain.

 

One day, a colleague of mine was asked to sum up engineering ethics in a single sentence, and he said, "No headlines....


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