facial recognition Ant-facial recognition tech at the Hong Kong protests was an art project Thom Dunn

speculative design If Apple designed iPhones in the 80s and 90s Mark Frauenfelder

design Design fiction, speculative design, and "creepiness" Cory Doctorow

graphic design A deep dive into the visual branding of Cyberdyne Systems from the "Terminator" films Thom Dunn

scholarship Conducting "evil" computer research, in the name of good Cory Doctorow

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

happy mutants How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics Cory Doctorow

security Researchers keep finding Spectre-style bugs in processors Cory Doctorow

mistakes What happens when you let computers optimize floorplans Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Reimagining US banknotes as modern, plastic, QR-code-verified, PGP-protected collectibles Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Futuristic designs for products the EU's stupid new copyright law would kill Cory Doctorow

facebook The emerging split in modern trustbusting: Alexander Hamilton's Fully Automated Luxury Communism vs Thomas Jefferson's Redecentralization Cory Doctorow

Kids Trailer for Elevation, a film on how drones will change cities Andrea James

Business The psychological design tricks McDonald's uses to tempt you into buying its preferred menu items Cory Doctorow

law The mystery man behind the destruction of Gawker Andrea James

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

Gadgets James Brown and the $600 Cup Noodle Cooker Richard Kaufman

happy mutants Coming to Europe: a lecture tour with Garnet "Disobedient Electronics" Hertz Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Hyperface: a fabric that makes computer vision systems see faces everywhere Cory Doctorow