I talked to her about the significance of the role in The Peripheral, where she plays a trans person in the future. The show is based on a novel by William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace, and it was produced by Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. It's a complicated story that moves around in time and explores whether the digital world is real or not. And the show is different from the book, as it uses Gibson's story as a jumping off point for ideas about our future. And that gives Billings some interesting leeway to play Lowbeer as a trans person in the show.

If The Peripheral is to be believed, we're all pretty much doomed. Based on the William Gibson novel of the same name, the new Amazon series finds Flynne, a young computer-savvy woman played by Chloë Grace Moretz, unwittingly bouncing between the bleak near-future and the even bleaker distant future. She's been enlisted by her cyber GI brother to test some new mystery tech, and the pair quickly realize they've become embroiled in a thriller for the ages. The series is rife with outlandish inventions, brutal fights, and faceless cyborgs, plus local no-goods, hints of romance, and even some good old-fashioned drone warfare. The Peripheral also features behemoth sculptural air cleaners hovering over a staggeringly empty future version of London, just in case you weren't freaked out enough already.

He uses this tick-tock ratcheting of tension and brief, bright flares of action to move the plot -- an extended, punctuated chase scene that starts early and continues through 400 pages. Verity and Eunice are the rabbit. The hounds are contract assassins, military contractors, tech-bros in over their heads. And Gibson, in his Gibsonian way, just keeps winding the wire around his explosive core, looping in gig-economy surveillance applications, outlaw makers, a barista, a time-traveling robot, a housewarming/launch party complete with helicopter assault.

Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data.

Saturday will mark a year since the Switch went on sale. Cumulative sales are set to reach 17 million by March 31, beating initial expectations, and Nintendo Chief Executive Tatsumi Kimishima has said he wants to sell more than 20 million units in the new fiscal year that begins April 1. The company has high hopes for its Nintendo Labo cardboard toy kit, which goes on sale in April and is aimed at attracting parents looking for an educational toy for their children. The kits contain cardboard pieces that can be assembled into pianos, cars, robots or other toys that work with the Switch hardware and use it as a brain. The Labo is one of the steps planned by Nintendo to lure a wider range of customers.