Audio Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow

fashion Bulletproof thobes and abaya Cory Doctorow

Business Pepsi plans to use cubesats to display ads in the night sky Cory Doctorow

youtube Pepsico launches a K-Cup for juice Cory Doctorow

science fiction Nebraska State Senator proposes constitutional amendment to allow corporations to create tiny, sovereign nations with no laws, taxes or rules Cory Doctorow

Games YouTuber skips the dragon-slaying and becomes a Skyrim farmhand instead Grant St. Clair

books Asimov's 1980 review of 1984 called Orwell scientifically ignorant Ellsworth Toohey

video games Total War is ready to bring the Warhammer 40k grim-dark Séamus Bellamy

Technology Ring's CEO said lost-dog finder was always meant to be a human surveillance platform, says leaked email Ellsworth Toohey

politics Britain's Home Secretary wants AI so "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times" Rob Beschizza

Games Amazon wants to put you (yes, you) in a real-life Fallout vault Grant St. Clair

Games ExeKiller: chrome-dipped cowboy simulator incoming Grant St. Clair

Razer announces AI companion for your real-world desktop Grant St. Clair

reading Reading Rainbow's theme song gets magical makeover from rising star Bukola Jennifer Sandlin

Games The Outer Worlds 2 fixes everything wrong with the original Grant St. Clair

Games Deus Ex remaster looks like a dystopian nightmare in all the wrong ways Grant St. Clair

robots Dystopian "pregnancy robot" thankfully an AI hoax Gail Sherman

top talent Wakka Wakka's latest magical puppetry production, Dead as a Dodo, starting its USA South Tour in October Jennifer Sandlin

movies "The Long Walk" screening will kick out viewers who can't keep up with the characters Grant St. Clair

new jersey Toddler defeats overpriced, wobbly table in NJ cafe Mark Frauenfelder