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In a genre severely lacking in culinary options, ramen feels like the only food universally agreed to be tied to cyberpunk. At first, this association might appear inevitable because of the genre’s infatuation with the Far East, especially Japan. But could this association run even deeper, to the point that we can find the ingredients of cyberpunk all hidden inside one packet of instant ramen?

We live in the age of information. Whether this is so because it is the most advanced material at our command, as in the naming rights to the Iron Age, or whether this is our primary scientific area of pursuit and exploration, as in the Space Age or Atomic Age, information is the currency. The very least reason is that information is everywhere, and there is always more information ready to invade our space. So how do we get the attention of the brooding masses to arouse them in pursuit of a worthy cause?

Sex is a complicated business in the UK. In the eight years since the dating app Tinder was launched, lazy lovers have grown used to swiping through the carefully crafted mugshots of moderately attractive strangers and having one arrive at their door for fun, frolics, and…erm…f*cking

Privacy may be dead, but in this series we’ll be examining various small ways to take back control of your life and secure your data, as well as how to generally subvert the organizations trying to control you. First step: anonymous mail.

The normalization of “virtual” body augmentation has been building for many years, in several subtle forms – the digital alteration of photos for magazine spreads, promotional ads, and album covers being an example. Younger generations have been exposed to these edited, idealistic pictures of people they commonly look up to for the majority of their adolescent lives, being visually exposed by movies, TV, magazines, and especially the internet.

We chose Audible as the platform of choice for our article on cyberpunk audiobooks for several reasons — They have the Best Selection with a Free Trial and They’ll Pay us a Referral Fee. So, with that in mind, why not turn on, boot up and jack into a free cyberpunk audiobook and support CyberPunks.com on Amazon’s dime?

Just two months ago, the editors of CYBR Magazine ripped up the plan for their fifth issue and started over. They could see that the viral outbreak we all are currently coming to terms with was going to become an epidemic, and they wanted to investigate and reflect on what the future could look like.

What a time to be alive. No literally, people around the world are dying from COVID-19, so if we are alive right now, we are lucky. Although honestly, life is a gift, so any day we are alive should be counted as lucky. But something truly remarkable is happening right now. All around the world, we are experiencing a collective feeling and thought process while practicing self-quarantine.

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.

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