Condensed, or just dense? The apps that turn books into 15-minute reads

Many readers will recoil from these radically boiled-down versions of titles like A Brief History of Time. Me too, until I started reading them

Digital prophet Kevin Kelly: I’ve learned a lot from Spielberg

The influential tech thinker and co-founder of Wired on the dangers of online anonymity, learning from Spielberg, and what 2050 will look like

Sentient machines are a greater threat to human existence than climate change, according to the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom

Elon Musk caused a stir last week by suggesting ours is not the real world, but sci-fi writers have been speculating about this for at least 70 years

Half-term crowds help propel family-friendly action-thrillers to the top, as Anthony Hopkins/Al Pacino turkey gobbles up just £97

A PlayStation game opened up a liberating world of play, interaction and co-operation for Keith Stuart and his young son

Michael Hayden talks at Hay festival about Edward Snowden and how Facebook, not government, is new privacy battleground

Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens

The hysterical cheerleaders of the e-book failed to account for human experience, and publishers blindly followed suit. But the novelty has worn off

Adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland helped revival in traditional publishing last year

Top-end e-reader is a cut above the rest, rethinking the Kindle design and experience, cutting 20% weight and costing a pretty penny in the process

Co-creator of the iPlayer criticises the corporation’s bureaucracy as he leaves after 14 years

Battle commences in a terrorised New York, the Pokémon arena and feudal Japan

Slate columnist Fred Kaplan’s new book details – exhaustingly as well as exhaustively – the alarms and innovations that made mass surveillance

So computers can now beat humans at Go – but why would they swap their game pieces for bombs?