water Find places to top off your water bottle with the Tap App Seamus Bellamy

disappointment Apple buys excellent Dark Sky weather app, kills it for Android users Mark Frauenfelder

music Whole album just the sound of classic mechanical keyboards being typed on Rob Beschizza

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Apple’s next iPhones and iPads: Triple camera, 3-D back camera for AR, new Face ID, iOS 13 Dark Mode, new cheap iPad Xeni Jardin

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

Reviews I love the Garmin Tactix Charlie, so it'll likely get lost or broken Seamus Bellamy

fabulous fakes Review of a $100 counterfeit iPhone X Mark Frauenfelder

scholarship Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value Cory Doctorow

real estate Modest Silicon Valley home breaks record for highest price paid per square foot Rusty Blazenhoff

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

privacy Google Maps knows all Rob Beschizza

bitcoin Bitcoin philanthropist donated $1 million to psychedelics research David Pescovitz

web theory A (flawed) troll-detection tool maps America's most and least toxic places Cory Doctorow

Business Roomba wants to sell the maps of the inside of your home it created while cleaning Cory Doctorow

Business EU fines Google €2.42B for anti-competitive behaviour Cory Doctorow

video Visualizing 24 hours of subway activity in New York City Andrea James

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

Technology What does it mean to be human in an age of machines? Institute for the Future