Japan Take a trip inside Japan’s robot hotel Caroline Siede

robots Watch Japan's first robot bartender mix and serve a cocktail Carla Sinclair

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

security Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices Cory Doctorow

corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow

Japan This sushi-making robot can churn out 2400 nigiri balls and 200 sushi rolls in an hour Carla Sinclair

Business Universal Studios is chipping their soda cups to limit refills Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: DIY epipens were just the start, now it's home bioreactors to thwart Big Pharma's price-gouging Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science Cory Doctorow

elections The Rich and the Normal Jasmina Tesanovic

happy mutants DoNotPay bot launches a cheap airline ticket that automates the nearly impossible business of getting refunds when prices fall Cory Doctorow

fake news Sexbots, Nostradamus and Donald Trump, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

Robot priests Meet Pepper, Japan's robot priest that can now conduct funerals Carla Sinclair

Disney Disney will pivot Epcot away from its "sponsored content" model Cory Doctorow

books Read: chapter two of WALKAWAY, in which buildings build themselves Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Japan's "Weird Hotel," staffed by robots, in a Japanese theme-park Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek

china Shanghai Disneyland: "Ignite the magical dream within your heart" Richard Kaufman

Japan 15 things I love about Tokyo DisneySea Richard Kaufman

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