Carrie Sheffield

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to improve road safety, accessibility, and productivity. Several cities already have AVs on their roads, and many more are considering legislation that would allow testing or deployment. There are many benefits and risks of AVs, as well as the questions—including labor force displacement—that will need to be answered as the technology becomes more integrated into society. How much do you know about AVs? Let’s play “Two Truths and a Lie” and find out.

On this Independence Day , by invitation of the White House Task Force 250, I will stand on the main stage of the Great American State Fair to lead a National Mall crowd in a one-hour program of music and prayers for our nation.

Ransomware is hitting American organizations harder, and more often, than anywhere else in the world. The average total cost of a ransomware breach in America runs $10.22 million—roughly double the global average—

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently laid out a sweeping vision for regulating children’s access to social media. Drawing on a report from a special EU panel on child safety online, she called for a “phased and gradual access” model: no screens at all for children under three, time-limited and supervised access for kids under 13, and gradual, “age-appropriate” access for teenagers.

Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to showcase OpenAI’s newest model, but the bigger story isn’t the model. It’s what runs it. Every chatbot query, AI agent, and capability jump depends on a data center, with energy flowing into it and land underneath it.

Texas spent recent years building an economic boom — creating a top state for innovation and growth . Dallas just watched the Texas Stock Exchange

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In the span of just one week, the Trump administration announced two major initiatives that will keep America on the cutting edge of technology and innovation.

During middle school, I attended two well-funded, predominantly black schools in Kansas City, Missouri. They were violent and dysfunctional, as I shared in my memoir. By 2000, shortly after

A Virginia board's rejection of a new radon-licensing requirement shows how small, well-intentioned regulatory decisions can quietly drive up housing and consumer costs, offering a case study in the link between occupational licensing and affordability, writes Carrie Sheffield.