computer logic Good demonstration of a computer that runs on marbles Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Virtual reality Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality David Pescovitz

Gadgets Apple to switch Mac lineup to its own chips Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Train your brain to solve problems & make better decisions with these courses Boing Boing's Shop

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

books "The Art of Computer Designing": stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Art installation uses science to age e-waste in geological time Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

politics Podcast: The Engagement-Maximization Presidency Cory Doctorow

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

outsider art Documentary about the life and death of Terry Davis, creator of TempleOS Rob Beschizza

climate change UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars Thom Dunn

scholarship #NoTechForICE: Calling on ACM to cancel Palantir's sponsorship of the first ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law Cory Doctorow

News New federal rules will limit police searches of DNA ancestry databases Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Do Not Erase: Jessica Wynne's beautiful photos of mathematicians' chalkboards Cory Doctorow

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

News The GENIAC, a narrative interactive game from 1955 Clive Thompson