My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. They love to code, like the good little 21st-century humanoids they are. They love coding so much and I am so unwilling to give them their own devices that I decided to try something new. It's also something that sounds so counterintuitive it actually might work: screen-free coding.

NASA is already planning a mission in 2069, we watch an iPhone X camouflage your face, and combine sex, robots and popular culture. Hype matters more than quality.Will Smith's'Bright' is terrible, but that doesn't matter to Netflix Despite a low Rotten Tomatoes review score (32 percent), Bright could still be the algorithmically-created hit Netflix is seeking. If you have a TV, you can explore most of the issues yourself.You don't need a Ph.D. to grasp the anxieties around sex robots Many of the preoccupations that were on display at the third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots are ones previously explored in pop culture. From Futurama to Westworld, going back to Weird Science and The Stepford Wives, the questions that academics are currently pondering have already been played out, fictionally at least, on TV. To spare you a lot of very dry reading, we offer this guide on what you should be watching.

Nintendo's hybrid games console, dubbed the "Switch" because it can pipe games either to TVs or mobile screens perched between hands, exemplifies the company's insurgent philosophy. It is both computationally quotidian yet prototypical, unable to match Microsoft's Xbox One X or Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro teraflop for teraflop. But the Switch is also free of those platforms' restrictive tethers. It's a gaming gizmo that goes wherever you do, enabling pickup games of Snipperclips or Mario Kart 8 between strangers on planes, in parks or on subway commutes. It is a repudiation of gaming's shift to "alone together," an exuberant backpedal toward in-person competition (or cooperation) buttressed by millions of years of social evolution.