Games reviews roundup: Tom Clancy’s The Division; Pokkén Tournament; Samurai Warriors 4: Empires

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

Dark Territory review – how WarGames and Reagan shaped US cyberwar battle

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

Computers might beat us at board games, but that doesn’t mean they’ll take over the world

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

Speak by Louisa Hall review – the bots are taking over

A poet’s ambitious alternative history of computing, from the Puritans to 2040

Goodnight and good Nook: farewell to a beloved e-reader

Barnes & Noble has shut down its ebook store. It may have been overshadowed and outsold by the Kindle, but for some readers, it was briefly a revelation

Who would be a librarian now? You know what, I’ll have a go

My friends laugh at me but training to be a professional librarian is a sort of calling – like becoming a priest, only with warmer business premises

Amazon primed: five areas the company is looking to expand into

After signing deal to sell Morrisons food, US retailer has sights set on fashion, loans, drones, physical shops and more groceries

One Direction fan-fiction author Anna Todd launches app for her own fans

Writer of the After series promises that she’ll involve her readers in future books, while answering their questions in new mobile community

Libreria bookshop: where literature and lattes don’t mix

Libreria is a new London bookshop dreamed up by former Downing Street policymaker turned tech entrepreneur Rohan Silva. Just don’t expect coffee and Wi-Fi…

More than 2.5m Minecraft books sold by Egmont Publishing

Book titles which tie in with the game include Blockopedia, a bestseller in the children’s nonfiction category in 2015

Cynthia Nixon: Emily Dickinson would have loved Twitter

A Quiet Passion actor suggests that celebrated 19th-century American poet was far from cut off, and would have been ‘emailing and tweeting all day long’

Negative humanity: the birth of the digital death mask

The same facial recognition technology that monitors unsuspecting Russian citizens was used to produce this eerie portrait of a Pussy Riot member

Brace yourself for a cyber-tsunami – the six biggest waves of change about to hit the world

Author Alec Ross looks at how robots, genomics and big data are going to change our lives forever

Marvin Minsky obituary

Pioneer of artificial intelligence research

The Guardian view on knowledge in an information age: take it to heart

Editorial: In the era of the smartphone, London cabbies are going to keep committing every last alley to memory. It might seem pointless, but we gain insight as well as information by exercising the memory