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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(“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 ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 -- Richard Powers won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night for his novel "The Echo Maker." "I've got to say, that does a number on your brain chemistry," Powers said ...