AI startup Echo Chunk, creator of Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round from investors across the tech and games industries. Top investors included Andreessen Horowitz ...

Star writers gathered in New York City on Wednesday night for the National Book Awards ceremony. Books dealing with the events of Sept. 11, and... 'Echo Maker' Wins National Book Award for Fiction ...

In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers turns his extraordinary intellect to focus both on neurology, particularly the neurology of consciousness, and environmental peril. Mark Schluter, a man in his 20s, ...

There is a film scene that goes like this. A woman, smartly turned out in heels and pearls, her hair as hard and smooth as an NFL helmet, is in an office or lab speaking to an elderly man in a white ...

Over the past 40 years, Richard Powers has written 14 novels, including The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award. Many of his works have dealt with some of the greatest pursuits of humans in ...

(“The Echo Maker” by Richard Powers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). What is memory? In a computer, it’s the capacity to store information in an organized collection of bits and bytes. In a human, it ...