William Gibson

The Peripheral: Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor star in stay-in-and-binge prestige TV of the highest quality

Television: William Gibson’s sci-fi stories haven’t always worked well on screen. This one nails it

Technology really can be stranger than fiction at times

The changes that replaced landlines with powerful pocket computers were neither obvious nor a foregone conclusion in the 1990s

A vaccine strategy inspired by the movie ‘Contagion’? Not Britain’s worst idea

Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan

The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears

Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape

Elon Musk looks to wire your brain to the Internet

Musk-backed Neuralink plans to use brain-implant technology to help patients with severe brain disorders

A deep dive into popular fiction with Words to That Effect

Podcast from the Headstuff Network is meticulously researched but never dry

My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-Ra

The Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feminists

Welcome to LiarTown – where fake media is all too real

Sean Tejaratchi combines image manipulation and a wicked sense of absurdist humour

Meath council ‘cyberattack’ was just old-fashioned fraud

Tagging €4.3m scam with the word ‘cyber’ and calling it ‘sophisticated’ is plain wrong

Inventions still lag ‘Star Trek’ futuristic technologies

The promised tech future is never quite what it was supposed to be. Darn

Child actor and Oscar winner Patty Duke dies at 69

Duke won best supporting actress Academy Award for role in 1962’s The Miracle Worker

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New exhibition remembers rugby players killed in war

Lansdowne ‘posh pals’ joined fight but many died in battle

The future is already here in India – for some people