Science Someone made a robot that tickles your foot Thom Dunn

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

Funny Let's build a robot to kill the creator of "I am not a robot" CAPTCHA image grids Andrea James

skynet What happens if you give an AI control over a corporation? Clive Thompson

skynet Donut-shaped drone that isn't hurt by collisions Clive Thompson

christ what an asshole Skynet: Trump campaigned like a crappy AI, and now he's governing like one, too Cory Doctorow

politics Mike Lindell says "54 countries have now been taken by the machines" Rob Beschizza

robots Video: Someone strapped a submachine gun on a $3,000 AliExpress robot dog and it's damn scary David Pescovitz

tabloids Royal rampages and facelifts in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

artificial intelligence Scientists created a new neural network based on dragonfly brains Thom Dunn

art Poetic Kinetics announced a massive new art project that can include your message for 2020 Andrea James

google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow

happy mutants "They Live": action figures for our present moment Cory Doctorow

science fiction Merger: a science-fiction short about corporations as literal (as well as figurative) AIs Cory Doctorow

AI What would a "counterculture of AI" look like? Cory Doctorow

class war Victory! Google will not bid on $10B Pentagon cloud computing contract Cory Doctorow

Business Citing bad publicity and internal dissent, Google announces it won't renew contract to supply AI for US military drones Cory Doctorow

AI Elon's Basilisk: why exploitative, egomaniacal rich dudes think AI will destroy humanity Cory Doctorow