(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Getting Physical With Virtual Reality Combining virtual avatars with physical...

(image) It's a lonely world out there -- even surrounded by millions upon millions of other people, there just might not be that special someone for...

My wife and I are both in our mid-thirties. We have two kids, one of whom is in college, but we must look young, because we still get carded in restaurants,...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. (Image: Ariel Waldman, Sean Bonner, Violet Blue taken by Scott Beale /...

(image) Eric Anderson is a travel agent to the stars--the ones in outer space, that is. If you've got $30 to $40 million and a desire to live out your...

(image) Far be it from me to wax romantic about foreign-nationalistic past ideals of bold futurism, but let's face it: the Soviet space program was...

(image) In 2006 TokyoPop, the company that popularized manga in America, launched the first of a Star Trek: The Manga series to honor the 40th anniversary...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. shePhone Shells Out Condoms, Receives Criticism Wanting to cash in on some...

(image) This month, the emoticon turned 25 -- that's older than me. Does that make it all the more sad that I sort of subscribe to the whole "Internet...

(image) Hey, kids: the word of the day is diacetyl. It's a fun one, I swear. It is born through the miracle of fermentation, when acetolactate compounds...

So, last week I told you about eldritch horrors from beyond the stars bent on our destruction. The inimitable Ms. _DictionaryGirl_ followed up with a harrowing...

When I gave my keynote at Penny Arcade Expo, I wanted to give context to the whole reason we all gathered in Seattle. To do that, I tried to take the audience...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. China Company Bans Men-Role-Playing-Women Aurora Technology, under Shanda...

(image) Space, as we all know by now, is the final frontier. Hence, billion-dollar programs built to go and see and, perhaps one day, conquer. So what do...

(image) As you may already know by now, everyone's favorite sleepy deep sea denizen is awakening and ready to dredge up a little madness and destruction...

(image) As I have long suspected, Howard Phillips Lovecraft's tales of eldritch horrors beyond mortal ken were seeded with the grains of truth. Ten...

(image) I love video games as much as many of you do. Hell, I spent the last six months of my life up until my big move west working in a video game store,...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Craigslist Prostitutes Get Caught Cyber cops are cracking down lately on...

(image) Sometimes, in the name of art and upstanding journalism, we are forced to immerse ourselves in cultures we ourselves do not yet understand. It is...

(image) TRUE FACT: No matter how mundane, or even disagreeable, the product or idea in question is, even the most stalwart can be persuaded with logic swathed...

There is a communications revolution happening right now. It crosses generations, and it scares the absolute shit out of a lot of people who benefit from...

(image) I'm not exaggerating. This is not hyperbole. I'm exhausted and I can't touch, taste or smell, I'm guessing because my senses...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Second Life Finds A Way To Suck More The fact that you meet more furries...

(image) I don't know if it's something in the pixels or if the constant flow of friend requests are finally getting to some people but in the...

(image) When applied in a sufficiently awesome and innovative way, science is one of my favorite things. Not entirely unlike raindrops on roses or LOLzes...

(image) What is the coolest thing you could possibly imagine ever in the history of the cosmos? If, like me, you imagine Stephen Hawking writing science...

(image) Long before fly DNA became inextricable from that of Jeff Goldblum, there was Wolbachia. On Thursday, the University of Rochester issued a press...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Spin The Bottle With A Circuit Board It's only fitting that all the...

(image) Recently I was talking with a new-to-social-networks friend of mine about what the hell we're doing with all these online communities. I pointed...

(image) As a resident of San Diego for the past 10 years, I am proud to bring to the newswire the distinguished lineage of journalistic integrity and drinking...

(image) If goofy old Marilyn Monroe movies ever taught me anything, it's that being a gentleman's illicit plaything can be a pretty sweet deal...

This last weekend, I delivered the keynote address at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. PAX is a huge gathering of gamers of all sorts: table top gamers,...

(image) By now, bitching about the current remake trend in the film industry is like mocking President Bush: it may feel good, but it's, like, so five...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Porn Filter Hacked by 16-year-old ICYMI (In Case You Missed It, for the...

(image) My trip through Canada has turned into more of a fact finding mission than anything else. Sure I'm doing the planned business and socializing...

(image) You know you're a geek when you break your arm playing an arcade game. The culprit, ladies and gentlemen: (image)

As you may remember, the internet is full of holes. As I've also said recently, mathematical equations and broad hypotheses do nothing as far as convincing...

(image) Sometimes I think scientists are there for the sole purpose of dreaming up new ways to freak me out and keep me up at night.You could say that's...

(image) I don’t know how many of you have been following the sad and strange tale of Rachel Bevilacqua, whom you also might know as Reverend Magdalen of...

(image) Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech. Pirated Cybersex Goes To Court Between furries and frequent downtime, Second...