robots This drywall-installing robot will finish building your new home, meatbag Seamus Bellamy

parody Celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Friday the 13th" with this parody of "Stacy's Mom" Thom Dunn

Business NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, & Dynetics to build lunar landing systems for manned moon mission Xeni Jardin

complexity Antikondo: Orderliness is not the same as efficiency Cory Doctorow

infosec The Airbus 350 needs a hard reboot every 149 hours Cory Doctorow

language Self-driving car jargon Cory Doctorow

comics. x-men: grand design X-Men: Grand Design: Mutant History Ed Piskor

Gadgets Review: Synology DS718+ Diskstation Rob Beschizza

art Art installation includes drones that stalk and record all visitors Andrea James

Gadgets Taser ships a pistol-holster sensor that triggers record mode in all nearby bodycams when cops draw their guns Cory Doctorow

picks U.S. Homeland Security staff were unable to access DHS computer network because the security certificates expired Xeni Jardin

security Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia offline Cory Doctorow

Science Scientists remove first seeds from ‘doomsday’ Arctic seed vault. Why? War in Syria. Xeni Jardin

game of thrones In "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken", Game of Thrones mocks the power of powerful women Rob Beschizza

What caused the Cambrian Explosion? Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink

Blinded by the Light Chris Krupiarz

war Proto-warblogger Kevin Sites returns to Afghanistan. Here's the reporting gear he's packing. Xeni Jardin