robots Watch a robot solve a Rubiks Cube in 0.637 seconds Rob Beschizza

Games Enabling Bluetooth on Stadia's controllers keeps them from the trash pile Jason Weisberger

television [SPOILER] returns to Doctor Who Devin Nealy

Internet The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring Thom Dunn

medicine The booming world of leg-lengthening surgery Jennifer Sandlin

Right round baby right round Why is our planet rotating faster? Scientists don't know Jason Weisberger

AI "NeRF" turns 2D photos into convincing 3D scenes Rob Beschizza

media A cop shot his wife and then killed himself, but you wouldn't know it from this headline Rob Beschizza

Much Probes Check in on the Voyager probes Rob Beschizza

Science Why 'time' uses the sexagesimal system of counting Jason Weisberger

insect pests Why flies are hard to swat, and how to outwit them Mark Frauenfelder

twitter A recursive tweet that links to itself Clive Thompson

banking Why COBOL will never die Clive Thompson

Technology Snatcher: a superfast robotic tongue inspired by chameleons David Pescovitz

privacy "Edge AI": encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips Cory Doctorow

neuroscience Debunking the "Bereitschaftspotential", the brain signal that seemed to kill off free will Clive Thompson

amazon Amazon testing 'Orville' biometric tech that scans your hands to pay at Whole Foods, stores will use it starting early 2020 Xeni Jardin

Technology Wearable device amplifies your reaction time David Pescovitz

DRONES Watch this drone dodge soccer balls hurled at it David Pescovitz

happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow