Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’

The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the 3D printer could change the world, and her optimism about women in science

Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’

The psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner

Why I am deleting Goodreads and maybe you should, too

There’s a buzz to sharing your reading life, but for me it turned it into a kind of competition that distracts from what I love about books

‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love?

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?

Antitrust: Hawley and Klobuchar on the big tech battles to come

The Republican senator has written a sort of manifesto for the presidential primary. The Democrat seems focused on the supreme court

From pencil sharpeners to a $539m lawsuit: how big tech weaponised design patents

In 1842, the US patent office registered 14 designs, including a bathtub and a ‘corpse preserver’. It now handles 35,000 a year. Why did this once sedate world became a corporate arms race?

Roy Tabor obituary

Other lives: Librarian who created a database that was a precursor for the NHS Direct service for patients

‘A box of light’: AI inspired by British verse attempts to write poetry

After processing more than half a million lines by human poets, experts say it is the best attempt yet to produce computer-generated poetry

‘Non-fungible tokens’: the etymology behind this new digital swag

Sadly, it has nothing to do with fungus

Researchers read sealed 17th-century letter without opening it

‘Virtual unfolding’ is hailed a breakthrough in the study of historic documents as unopened letter from 1697 is read for the first time using X-ray technology

The Guardian view on Radio Garden: world citizenship in an app

Editorial: A digital tool that allows us to surf the world’s radio stations is perfect for lockdown liberation

Eliot Higgins: ‘People accuse me of working for the CIA’

The founder of the online investigative collective Bellingcat talks about working with Alexei Navalny, open source reporting and the trouble with ‘cyber-miserablism’

A Glitch in the Matrix review – deep-dive into simulation theory

Using animation, archive and clips from the movie franchise, Rodney Ascher’s genre-bending doc gives philosophers and kooks space to explain why we are living in a synthetic world

Page refresh: how the internet is transforming the novel

Doom scrolling, oversharing, constantly updating social media feeds – the internet shapes how we see the world, and now it’s changing the stories we tell, writes author Olivia Sudjic

Amazon.com and ‘Big Five’ publishers accused of ebook price-fixing

Class action lawsuit filed in US claims the houses have colluded with the online giant to keep prices artificially high