History The vast, unplayable history of video games Gita Jackson

AI WATCH: 'Ex Machina' examines love and exploitation in the age of AI Andrea James

News Brazil now digging up the dead from cemeteries to make room for new COVID-19 deaths Xeni Jardin

security Watch: #FightCovid19 robot enforces Singapore social distance rules with 360º spy-cam Xeni Jardin

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

music "Metropolis Kid" will make you dance like Superboy Thom Dunn

china Hong Kong protests level up in countermeasures, tactics, art and deadly seriousness Cory Doctorow

infrastructure jamming Asymmetric warfare: someone is pulling emergency brakes on NYC subway cars Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

picks Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigns over book grift scandal Xeni Jardin

Entertainment Japanese company develops artificial meteor showers on demand Mark Frauenfelder

trump 'Sanctuary city' picks up trash for Federal government shutdown over border wall Jason Weisberger

Reviews Review: This case for my Surface Go is wicked heavy but wicked good Seamus Bellamy

guillotine watch The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC Cory Doctorow

History Model of Ancient Rome fills room Rob Beschizza

Japan Midori Traveler’s Notebook, an invaluable tool from Japan Seamus Bellamy

art Check out Chris Burden's massive kinetic sculpture of a model car track Andrea James

happy mutants Kickstarting improvements to Maria Del Camino, a "flying" El Camino with a drilled-out portrait of Metropolis's Maria Cory Doctorow

happy mutants China's private data-brokers will sell you full dossiers on anyone in the country Cory Doctorow

video Watch beautiful timelapse cityscapes as evening lights come on Andrea James