Science The Life Cycle podcast meets neurologist Dr. Phil Kennedy, who had a brain-computer interface implanted in his head Mark Frauenfelder

aliens A UFO-themed brothel is now providing remote services for its alien sex robots Thom Dunn

Sex When will we get sex robots? Rose Eveleth

museums Museum of Sex coming to Miami with robots and an "erotic carnival" David Pescovitz

elon musk Elon Musk boasts "We could make a robot catgirl" sex doll Mark Frauenfelder

bitcoin The wild world of bitcoin erotica Mark Frauenfelder

music Perry Farrell on Survival Research Labs and Psi Com David Pescovitz

scholarship Even without explicit collusion, pricing algorithms converge on price-fixing strategies Cory Doctorow

california Google sister company is trialing a mosquito eradication plan in Fresno Cory Doctorow

scholarship A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now Cory Doctorow

Technology Sex-robot has "family mode" switch so kids can play with it. Ethicist says it is "profoundly damaging" to children Mark Frauenfelder

flocking behavior Today's "lone wolf" killers are actually a pack Clive Thompson

Boing Boing Gadgets The Internet of Connected Sex Toys is every bit as horrifyingly insecure and poorly thought out as you imagine Cory Doctorow

health America's private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine Cory Doctorow

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

fake news Sexbots, Nostradamus and Donald Trump, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

Annalee Newitz's Autonomous: a robosexual romp through an unequal future where biotech patent-enforcement is the only law Cory Doctorow

podcasts Is progress inevitable? David McRaney

better part of valor Killing my unfinished game dev projects Rob Beschizza

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