Gadgets Tangiplay is the children's game so fun that kids don’t realize they’re learning to code Boing Boing's Shop
NASA Katherine Johnson, pioneering NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures," RIP David Pescovitz
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
Disinfotainment Why is Twitter's takedown of accounts spreading disinformation from China such a big deal? Mark Frauenfelder
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