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* This is big: The Guardian UK got unauthorized access to the legal documents detailing the sexual allegations against Julian Assange and they report everything here. (guardian.co.uk) * Also quite huge: Amazon kicked erotica out of Kindle for being incest-themed – then deleted the book from people’s Kindles. When customers called to complain, they were…

Puppet Master: Ghost in The Shell Brought to Life

Astounding, exciting, beautiful! I am jealous. A friend emailed me links to some serious sex and robotics hackery when two coworkers decided to hardware hack together a Puppet Master computer, a la Ghost in the Shell — this one in a female gynoid shell. Rather, a very busty female mannequin stuffed with some very interesting…

Image of two sex dolls by the amazing Stacy Leigh. Happily not attending the AEE porn trade show or AVN (trade magazine) porn awards, and watching the meltdowns and sadness from afar, I’ve been pruning through what little press there’s been about it this year. Attendance for AEE/AVN (same difference) is way down and sales…

Image by Blogowski. The reactions to this talk are the weirdest I’ve encountered in my many years of talking about sex at tech conferences (incl. SXSW, ETech, Forbes Internet Leadership Conference). Women loved it; all the feedback and backchannel chat from women has been excited and positive. And there’s been a lot of it, like…

Image by Modern Citizen. One of my favorite webzines, H+, has two fantastic articles surrounding the upcoming cheesy-looking (but still I’m going to see it) film “Surrogates” and dances with our ongoing fascinations with sci-fi sex workers. “Surrogates” (formerly a graphic novel by Robert Venditti) has been made into a Hollywood film scheduled for release…