artificial intelligence This company wants to use AI to help you pretend to increase diversity Thom Dunn

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin

guns A fascinating computer analysis of the linguistic context around the 2nd Amendment Thom Dunn

makers How to make a replica of the GENIAC Electric Brain from 1955 Mark Frauenfelder

television Fantastic TV commercial from Mattel Intellivision (1982) David Pescovitz

happy mutants To do in Toronto: the Retro Futures exhibit at Metro Reference Library Cory Doctorow

Games Watch a year of brute force beat Arkanoid in 11 minutes Rob Beschizza

speech Brain-computer interface successfully translates thought into synthesized speech David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Ten, "Your Death" — with a Turing Machine, Bouncing Ball Envelope, and Other Randomized Voltage Ethan Persoff

books Best book covers of 2018 Rob Beschizza

Business Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

shoes PUMA reissuing its 1980s computerized running shoe David Pescovitz

class war How trade unions are addressing automation Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow

climate 30 years after cyberpunk, Japan is still the (greying, insular, shrinking, climate-wracked) future Cory Doctorow

Science Like you're actually going to read this paper on computerized sarcasm analysis Rob Beschizza

robots Report: 66 million people will lose their jobs to robots Seamus Bellamy

smart objects In this 1967 IBM training video, the Cookie Monster eats a talking computerized coffee machine Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants An algorithm that converts 3D meshes into machine-knitting patterns Cory Doctorow