robots Is it OK to torture a robot? Mark Frauenfelder

robotics Creepy faceless humanoid robot is pure nightmare fuel Gail Sherman

makers Man lost eyeball to cancer so he made a replacement that's a flashlight (video) Allan Rose Hill

donald trump Bernie Sanders excoriates the Dems Jennifer Sandlin

cute Robie the coin-eating robot: A nostalgic look at Radio Shack's mechanical bank Popkin

movies Marvel announces the casting of its upcoming Fantastic Four movie with Valentine's Day card Ruben Bolling

Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene wants forced births to fill jobs, not immigrants Jason Weisberger

Comic Books After 40 years, Marvel is finally reprinting Rom: Space Knight Thom Dunn

Reviews Metacritic takes measures to prevent review bombing Grant St. Clair

better this way Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its "General Purpose Robots" Andrew Yi

southwest airlines Pilot sues Southwest after co-pilot allegedly locked her in the cockpit and took off his clothes Carla Sinclair

AI Google engineer suspended after leaking chats with AI bot he claims has become sentient Thom Dunn

science fiction Analyzing the classism of sci-fi protagonists Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets This Smart Nano Bot kit bring you one step closer to taking over the world Boing Boing's Shop

war UN wants to ban killer robots but US won't comply Thom Dunn

Monsters Ghost and goblin actors demand better labor rights from the Haunted Houses Thom Dunn

facebook Facebook initiative to present pro-Facebook news items Annie Rauwerda

fix the police Phoenix police officers circulated coins encouraging cops to shoot anti-Trump protesters in the groin Mark Frauenfelder

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow