google Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they've invented a mind-control ray Cory Doctorow

picks Report: Google to introduce Amazon Echo competitor device called 'Google Home' Xeni Jardin

Gadgets The New York Times called the Marshall Stanmore II the best Alexa speaker and now, it’s on sale Boing Boing's Shop

Business Who will rescue the U.S. Postal Service? Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Take part in the clean energy movement with Arcadia Boing Boing's Shop

alexa Easy ways to use Alexa just to mess with your children Thom Dunn

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

Adulting Adulting merit badges Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Mozilla updates its "Privacy Not Included" gift guide for 2019 Cory Doctorow

useful stuff Good deal on Amazon Echo Dot plus Amazon Music Unlimited subscription Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Extremely cheap microwave oven has Alexa, listening Rob Beschizza

music End.Game: a synth album from 19A0 Rob Beschizza

amazon Amazon's being greasy about Alexa user data. Again. Seamus Bellamy

lego Relive Star Wars 'Maginot Line' with the LEGO Echo Base Defense kit Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children Cory Doctorow

eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow

wifi You might need to upgrade your WIFI router Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Build custom Alexa skills by using Raspberry pi Boing Boing's Shop

apple DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy