antifa Breaking down the political alignments every character in Mario Kart Thom Dunn

Business Tesla faces lawsuit over another fatal 'autopilot' crash Xeni Jardin

Japan Coming soon to Japan: a 60-ft walking Gundam robot Mark Frauenfelder

Business Trump and Apple's Tim Cook to meet at Davos Xeni Jardin

art Check out this killer Yoshitomo Nara graffiti in NYC bar David Pescovitz

Science Nobel Prize in Chemistry split 3 ways for lithium-ion battery research Xeni Jardin

activists Notorious "Fuck the Draft" poster from 1968 up for auction Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

Funny 童絵解万国噺: a wonderfully bizarre 19th century Japanese fanfic history of America Cory Doctorow

Funny Pee-wee Herman's TV commercial for Japanese securities firm David Pescovitz

The 1995 Anime “Ghost in the Shell” is more relevant than ever in today’s technologically complex society Andrew D Maynard

politics Japan's new cybersecurity minister admits never having used a computer Rob Beschizza

california Bay Area organization offers free birthday parties to homeless kids, cake and all Rusty Blazenhoff

b-side This mossy plant may be 'more medically effective than cannabis' Rusty Blazenhoff

climate change Extreme weather has caused Japan cherry blossoms to bloom in fall, when it's supposed to be in the spring Carla Sinclair

video games Sony to retire PS Vita in 2019 Seamus Bellamy

urine trouble Man on flight to Tokyo urinates on another passenger Mark Frauenfelder

art Just look at this manually pixellated banana and apple Andrea James

law Law professors and computer scientists mull whether America's overbroad "hacking" laws ban tricking robots Cory Doctorow

china China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking" Cory Doctorow