We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Hackers.

Steven Kotler’s Last Tango in Cyberspace makes culture a character to be explored in equal measure as the main character. Lion, an empathy-tracker, or em-tracker for short, uses his unique talent to consume curated content provided by clients and extrapolate a future. Not at an individual level, mind you, rather as a glimpse at the cultural significance regarding the content in the future.

The highly anticipated coronavirus stimulus package has Congressional Democrats looking towards the future–in more ways than one. On Monday and Tuesday, three bills presented by Democrats in the House and the Senate proposed using digital currency to deliver financial relief to Americans reeling from the economic effects of the ongoing pandemic.

What Is Cyberpunk? A Neon City In The Rain? The scene opens on a rainy, smog-shrouded, hypercapitalist, neon, surveillance state and the viewer is dropped in without context. There’s an inciting incident to plunge you into the story, and you, the viewer, are gripped for the next two hours.  Any scene setting is left to the imagination, and questions of why the world is this way, and how it came to be, are left to fan fiction and speculation. This is the future. Deal with it. 

So . . . these guys at RoboRazer in Kiev wanted to make a uniquely cyberpunk knife in honor of the release of Cyberpunk 2077 in September of this year.   Much like the mantis-blades from the cyberpunk lore, the blade on the Inertix lies in hiding.  I must disagree with their marketing team, though, as the knife appears less like “a space shuttle of the future” and more like the key-fob to my steampunk airship.

If you got your nerd game on point then obviously you know all about Neill Blomkamp cinematic hits like District 9 and Elysium. But what you’ve gotta see is Chappie. The 2015 hit coming-of-age tale with a remarkable twist spotlights a robot being raised by gangsters. The film itself did well and more than doubled its budget of $49 million. It was another successful feather in the film making cap of Blomkamp as a writer and director. The film is a bad-ass fun watch with crazy characters and insane action. Chappie is well worth anyone’s time to check out.

What follows is a detailed description of a custom hardware project I did awhile back. I previously posted a simple how-to on another site, but I’ve had a lot of questions about how this was done, so I decided to write a more detailed account of the project. It’s a little rambling, but I hope you find it interesting enough to build your own cyberdeck.

It used to take years, sometimes decades, to build a spaceship. But if Elon Musk’s prediction is correct, his new SpaceX factory in Texas will be pumping out Starship rockets once every 72 hours. If anybody wanted to know how bad Musk wants to get to Mars, that’s the only bit of information you need.

It can take decades for something to become a cult classic. When it was released in 1994, System Shock was a commercial failure, despite widespread critical praise. Let’s find out why this cyberpunk horror flop is now so highly revered and has served as  inspiration for games like Deus Ex and BioShock. The remake is due later this year.

Magic Leap For Sale! The augmented reality startup Magic Leap is looking and considering a sale. If Magic Leap can find a buyer and/or investors, the sky is the limit when it comes to augmented reality devices.

We appreciate that not everyone in the world is an electronic engineer, and to most people, a breadboard is where the Hovis lives, so we’re going to keep things simple. No soldering required and no exotic components. We’ll be using super-cheap and readily available materials to transform our spanking new Raspberry Pi 4 into a laptop, and we’re going to do it for £20.

Comic reading has been around for decades, but a new app has changed the game. Line Webtoons is a digital comic reading app…