computation Numbr, an elegant online calculator Clive Thompson

Games You can make a Turing machine inside a game of Magic: The Gathering David Pescovitz

science fiction Author Rudy Rucker says bots doing your job might be a blessing, not a curse Mark Frauenfelder

magic Physicists identify new quantum state called "magic" Thom Dunn

animals Elephant shocks researchers by teaching itself to peel bananas (video) David Pescovitz

tech Samsung faked "moon photo" tech Rob Beschizza

neuroscience This is the first wiring map of an insect's brain David Pescovitz

AI Reading minds by combining generative AI and brain scans David Pescovitz

books Gamething is an "audio book club" about videogames by Pippin Barr and David Wolinsky Rob Beschizza

robots Scientists create new biohybrid robots that are definitely not cyborg zombie mice Thom Dunn

facial recognition Artists disrupting facial recognition technologies Jennifer Sandlin

Great Pacific Garbage Patch How do we clean plastics out of our oceans? Jennifer Sandlin

biology New study reveals that humans are not related to these spikey, wrinkly anus-less sacks Thom Dunn

robots Behold! A robot that peels a banana without mushing it! David Pescovitz

Science Astonishing image of "space triangle" caused by colliding galaxies David Pescovitz

NFTs Someone's "selling" colors as NFTs Thom Dunn

cameras This incredibly tiny camera is the size of a grain of salt David Pescovitz

History Watch a JPG decode on a 286 PC from the early 1990s Rob Beschizza