sesame street Big Bird put through a lie detector test Rusty Blazenhoff

polygraph Jennifer Lawrence takes a lie detector test (to promote her new movie) Rusty Blazenhoff

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

Gadgets These are 40 of the coolest things that are on sale this week Boing Boing's Shop

Space NASA: No, that UFO plainly seen in our space observatory footage isn't a UFO David Pescovitz

Gadgets Get double discounts on these Black Friday gift ideas Boing Boing's Shop

media Royal sex scandal lies, lawsuits and hair loss, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

glam Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow

Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow

psychology How con artists use the Ouija board effect for their scams David Pescovitz

us news Are you in a school shooting right now? There's an app for that Xeni Jardin

tabloids Prince Harry’s paternity nightmare and the Royal Family changed forever, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs Cory Doctorow

Business Mar-a-Lago mystery Chinese malware lady to stay in jail for another week Xeni Jardin

surveillance Credit card activity as a predictor of mass shootings Cory Doctorow

iphone Apple bothering people with unwanted "Carpool Karaoke" push notifications Seamus Bellamy

privacy New EU border security pilot program is all kinds of creepy. Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants The Lie Behind the Lie Detector: how to beat the pseudoscientific polygraph Cory Doctorow

photography A modern mudlarker finds treasures washed up on the River Thames banks David Pescovitz