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 ...

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 ...

Richard Powers’ “The Echo Maker,” a scientific tale of memory and identity in the age of Sept. 11 and the Iraq war, won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night, honoring a widely respected ...

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, ...

Echo, maker of lawn equipment like chainsaws and hedge trimmers, is forgoing the bathroom humor it used in campaigns past in favor of a more serious message. In its latest ads, the company is showing ...

Winners of the National Book Awards were announced last night in New York City. This year there were nominees in each category who reflected on a modern world shaken by war and danger. As NPR's Neda ...