If you’re interested in hearing the brilliant, sometimes-contentious Slovenian philosopher and Melville House author Slavoj Žižek discuss political correctness, the 2008 financial crisis, and what he sees as one of Malcolm X’s… Read more »

We’ve seen robots that commit homicide and robots that buy Ecstasy on the Dark Net. Now, in the next step toward the inevitable robot uprising, an actual literal Judgement Day, Dutch… Read more »

Do you suffer from the horrors of TL; DR syndrome? If you’re interested in nonfiction books but daunted by the prospect of actually reading all those pesky words, there’s an… Read more »

As a new stage production of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis reveals, it’s waking up as a robot. The Japanese director Oriza Hirata has cast a robot to play the part… Read more »

Ikea, a furniture company known for its innovations in cheap furniture production, lingonberry sauce distribution, and old-growth forest clear-cutting technology, has released an ad for its new catalog that is… Read more »

Good news, everyone! You no longer have to worry about some ignorant internet user ruining your day by misusing “literally.” Developer Mike Walker has come to the rescue of those… Read more »

Alexis Kleinman at The Huffington Post has reported on a new program, Spritz, that holds the promise of speed reading for the masses. According to Spritz’s website, “reading is inherently time consuming… Read more »

Nicholas Lund argued in Slate this week that Amazon’s new drone program has underestimated its most powerful competitors. He’s not talking about publishers and collusion: he’s talking about birds and… Read more »

Last weekend, an excerpt from Dave Eggers’ new novel The Circle, about a young woman who goes to work at a powerful internet company, was published in the New York… Read more »

Oyster, a new book subscription app, launched this week to much fanfare. Already being called a “Netflix for books,” (by Mashable, GigaOm, the LA Times, and many more), Oyster works… Read more »