Few myths are more pervasive in American life than the notion of Texas as a bastion of “ rugged individualism ” — the idea born of lonesome cowboys and wildcat oil drillers that the Lone Star State is ...

Before Waymo, Philadelphia had hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot dependent on the kindness of strangers. It was destroyed after ending up on Elfreth’s Alley. Locals joke its fate is a cautionary tale.