Are the United States getting more dangerous or more safe? The answer partially depends on your metric of choice.
For example, by examining homicide rates by state from 2012 to 2022, it can be seen that rates have increased almost across...
By Elwin de Groot, Stefan Koopman, and Maartje Wijffelaars of Rabobank (pdf link)
Summary
The European Parliament elections will serve as a pivotal test of the far right’s influence on the European political landscape.
It appears another centrist coalition can...
The Kremlin disclosed Thursday that a day earlier, the Ukrainian military launched six U.S.-made long-range ATACMS missiles and four British-made Storm Shadow missiles against Russian territory.
The projectiles were aimed at the southern Rostov region, with the Russian military saying that its...
Authored by Charles Krblich via The Brownstone Institute,
One fateful day in March 2020, the incompetent men shut down the world with lockdowns. It was the opposite of the premise in Atlas Shrugged.
Who is John Galt?
Who cares?
The incompetent people could stop...
Once seen a massive tanker... with wind sails? Maybe soon.
That's because the 400,000-ton carrying capacity ship Sohar Max was just modernized at China's COSCO Zoushan shipyard with five 35-meter rotor sails, bloomberg reports. The goal is to reduce fuel consumption by...
Congress has not authorized war, but the U.S. bombed two countries on Monday: Yemen and Syria. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) previously confirmed an airstrike on a Houthi rebel military facility in northern Yemen.
The Houthi Department of Defense building in Yemen's...
According to the EPA, the U.S. produced 292 million tons of solid waste in 2018. Of that, about 150 million tons headed to the country’s landfills. It would take more than 600 of the largest cargo ships (by dead weight tonnage)...
By Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis on ours),
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) is coming – and that it could pose an existential threat to humanity.
"Soon we will be able to make computers work...
Move over, BB-8: Chinese police are now testing for the first time a ball-shaped robot that "can identify and track suspects."
The spherical police robot in Wenzhou, China, has cameras, flashing lights and a self-stabilizing design, according to the South China...
It sounds like science fiction, but experts and leaders are now warning bots could be calling the shots on everything from product purchases to elections.
Analysis
If the internet were the real world, it may very well resemble a sci-fi movie...
