surveillance Reputation Economy Dystopia: China's new "Citizen Scores" will rate every person in the country Cory Doctorow

COVID-19 This Republican strategist says "members of the Church of Secular Science" wear masks to prove superiority Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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coronavirus The makeshift coronavirus hospital in Central Park requires workers to oppose LGBTQ rights Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Renowned mathematician and "Game of Life" inventor, John Conway, died this week of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

police procedurals If Samuel Beckett was the star of a 70s cop show Thom Dunn

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science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

australia Michael Bublé performed a private concert of Christmas songs for a trio of gorillas Thom Dunn

surveillance Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington

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books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

Copyfight CN Tower's management company claims that any picture of the landmark building is a trademark violation Cory Doctorow

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

Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow

music Pedro Bell, the psychedelic painter behind Funkadelic's visual vibe, RIP David Pescovitz