psychology Magic: Conjurers' audiences are most suspicious of extra effort Cory Doctorow

web theory Firefox Test Pilot: help determine the browser's product roadmap Cory Doctorow

Space This dashboard tracks everything going on with Artemis' Orion capsule as it returns to Earth Gail Sherman

politics Kid Rock: God will "cut down" media reporting his $5,000 tour tickets Rob Beschizza

History Over 20 years of International Space Station history is now online Séamus Bellamy

politics Trump's concerning incoherent blather Jason Weisberger

Car feature subscriptions make it easy for the government to track you Séamus Bellamy

higher education Campus investigates mysterious death of beloved swan Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets Make computing personal again Rob Beschizza

animals Bizarre blob discovered covering underwater listening device Allan Rose Hill

animals 88-year-old woman survived being lost in the woods by drinking rainwater and befriending a fox Allan Rose Hill

guns and rosaries Missouri church calls for "all young men" between 18–29 to "form a militia"— then apologizes Carla Sinclair

Voyager 2 communications fully restored Rob Beschizza

Space Engineers fixed Voyager space probe's mysterious glitch but found another that's even stranger David Pescovitz

Voyager 1 probe is sending back mysterious signals from interstellar space David Pescovitz

gadgets Autonomous sonar boat searches for sunken treasure Rob Beschizza

Science Virgin Orbit fails on first rocket launch attempt, 'next big test ASAP' for Richard Branson's spaceflight firm Xeni Jardin

security Vancouver health system ignored warnings that its wireless paging system transmits sensitive patient data in the clear Cory Doctorow

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

privacy Germany says nein danke to Microsoft Séamus Bellamy