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Gardening Malware: When Code Becomes Canvas
When code travels without permission, artists have been asking what it could carry instead — and one strange new program answers with pixel vegetables.
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Essays on software, hardware, digital infrastructure, and the systems quietly shaping how modern life works.
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Can Robotaxis Unite Cosplay and Lunar Explorations?
Waymo just went live at San Antonio Airport. Dream Con and San Japan are on the calendar. And someone is about to ride a robotaxi in full costume — which turns out to be more meaningful than it sounds.
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The Listening Body: Why Sound Design Is a Human Problem
We stopped listening because listening became punishing. The listening body, the idea that we hear with bone, skin, and posture, not just our ears, points toward a different way to build technology. One that knows when to be quiet.
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The Sun as Composer: How Solar Flares Became Music
Explore how the unpredictability of solar flare rates discovered by volunteers may offer new insights into musical composition, mirroring the patterns of natural fluctuations.
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Preservation Through Fire: Unveiling Ecosystems' Role in Digital Archiving
As wildfires reshape landscapes like Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, CIFRA's digital art archives offer a lens on how destruction fosters new modes of creation.
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Whisky, Robots, and the Friendship of Tradition and Tech
Scotland’s whisky tradition meets futuristic innovation with Boston Dynamics' robot dog sniffing for leaky barrels.
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When Smart Glasses Aren't as Smart as We Hoped
Meta's foray into smart glasses is a case study in expectations.
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Frisbees and Futures: Lessons from Off-Grid Villages
The best technology stories aren't about technology at all, they're about kids on swings. In September 2024, a playground opened at Kao La Amani Children's Village in Boma Ng'ombe, Tanzania, and while Silicon Valley was busy teaching chatbots to generate increasingly unhinged
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Big Tobacco 2.0: Inside the First Trial Against Addictive Apps
The courtroom looks nothing like the Crypto.com Arena where Tyler, the Creator threw himself to the floor in a cloud of smoke at the 2026 Grammys. No pyrotechnics here, no bright green soldier uniforms, no explosive performances of "Thought I Was Dead." Lawyers, laptops, and the kind
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The Growing Shadow of Voice Assistants
The $68 Million Whisper The $68 million settlement Google agreed to pay last week for allegedly spying on users through its voice assistant feels both shocking and inevitable. Shocking because the sum represents millions of private conversations potentially transmitted without consent. Inevitable because, well, haven't we all suspected
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Starfleet Academy: A Space for New Narratives
Meta Killed Its Metaverse. Star Trek Knew Better All Along. Meta killed Horizon Workrooms, and the timing couldn't be more perfect. While Mark Zuckerberg's virtual office fades into the digital void, Paramount+ drops Star Trek: Starfleet Academy into our laps like the universe saying "maybe
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Wooden Gadgets and the Art of Slow Tech
We've entered the era where the ultimate status symbol is a device that refuses to bother you. This tells you everything you need to know about where we went wrong. The mui Board exemplifies this absurdity perfectly. When inactive, it's wood grain. Touch it, and subtle