Games You can make a Turing machine inside a game of Magic: The Gathering David Pescovitz

Gadgets Tangiplay is the children's game so fun that kids don’t realize they’re learning to code Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus Covid-19 mutated into a more contagious strain, according to study Carla Sinclair

robots "What is a robot?" Pioneering roboticist Rodney Brooks answers with a sonnet David Pescovitz

NASA Katherine Johnson, pioneering NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures," RIP David Pescovitz

coronavirus Respirator masks with your face printed on it Rob Beschizza

crime You will be helped! Research using real-world situations fails to replicate the "bystander effect" Cory Doctorow

Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow

twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

politics Podcast: The Engagement-Maximization Presidency Cory Doctorow

makers Here's how to make a "computer on a card" from the 1960s Mark Frauenfelder

tech How did Blade Runner's tech predictions stack up? Rob Beschizza

Technology IBM unveils new 53-qubit quantum computer Xeni Jardin

Disinfotainment Why is Twitter's takedown of accounts spreading disinformation from China such a big deal? Mark Frauenfelder

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happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

delightful parasites Video of a snail being taken over by a parasitic worm looks like a looping psychedelic GIF Mark Frauenfelder