Now I'm a Meme: Vermin Supreme

Now I'm a Meme: Vermin Supreme

If he's elected president, every American gets a free pony.

Hand or Internet: Which Would You Rather Lose?

The people we met seem to really, really like the internet.

Impossible Is Something

The cautionary tale of Aleksey Vayner, unintentional viral superstar.

Doctor Teller's Strange Loves

The father of the hydrogen bomb really hated fascists.

Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life

The media critic and author of 'Program or Be Programmed' poses the big question of our time: How do you get the good of a zombie apocalypse without the zombies?

Free the Network

We made a documentary about hackers hitting the streets to take back the Web.

Sound Machines of the Amazon

Technobrega, the Amazon's flashy answer to house music, is part pirates, part space ships.

The Thorium Dream

The Thorium Dream explores the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium and the powerful forces that could keep it buried in the dustbin of history. After the Fukush…

The Thorium Dream

'The Thorium Dream' explores the growing grassroots movement in the United States behind the element thorium and the powerful forces that could keep it buried in the dustbin of history. After the Fuku…

A Dragon Con Odyssey

VICE travels to Atlanta to attend Dragon Con, a two-day bacchanalian orgy of sci-fi and comic book fans going bananas in the city's hotel rooms. We dive deep into the chaos with hundreds of cos-play a…

Motherboard Meets Errol Morris

Errol Morris’ stranger-than-fiction movies aren’t just examinations of fascinating people but the strange ways that the facts circulate around them.

The Creature Shop

We traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to visit the dudes behind the country’s leading horror factory, The Creature Shop.

Chris & Cosey

We got the chance to spend some time at the country house of the music making powerhouse – and long time couple – Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Electric Independence: John Foxx

We went to visit John Foxx deep in the darkest depths of Shoreditch, East London, at the studio of his latest collaborator, Benge.

The Sakawa Boys

Ghana’s enterprising young cybercriminals use traditional Juju magic to supercharge their email scams, and a subculture is born. Now Ghana’s in the grips of Sakawamania!

Electric Independence: Ceephax Acid Crew

There’s no one quite like our mate Andy Jenkinson, aka Ceephax, aka Ceephax Acid Crew. He’s one of the last great D.I.Y. masters working in electronic music.

Electric Independence: Ulrich Schnauss

The peerless electronic wunderkind Ulrich Schnauss was kind enough to show us his favorite instruments and demo the tasty tones from his forthcoming album.

CMD & CTRL: Tim Wu

We know that technology carries with it all manner of problems, but one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us.

Electric Independence: Emeralds

It’s not everyday we get to (or want to) go to Cleveland, but when the opportunity came along to hang with Emeralds, we put our boots on and headed (mid)west.

Electric Independence: Morton Subotnick

In its early days, electronic music wasn’t very musical. Enter Morton Subotnick.

Listening To The Universe

Soundbuilders: Reed Ghazala

Reed Ghazahla: The father of circuit bending.

Stelarc: The Man with Three Ears

Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. On this edition of Motherboard, VBS meets Stelarc, a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and has been screwing with

Carlos and his Heavy Metal Toys

Wasilla, “real America” Alaska is more than just Sarah Palin’s stomping ground and a natural-gas haven. Wasilla’s also the hometown of Carlos Owens, a man whose 20-foot r…

Ralph Baer and his All-Purpose Boxes

In this episode, we travel to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He tells us about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.

Curtis Roads

Bringing music down to the microsound level.

Psychedelic Photomicrography and the Silicon Zoo

Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny tiny living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope.

Doctor Laser

NYC Resistor: Making Awesome Things Happen

NYC Resistor is a Brooklyn based group of “hackers for good” who take apart and rebuild everything from high tech hardware to knit goods and paper. Founded

Something Wrong is Nothing Wrong

Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of Jodi.org create chaos, instill fear, and make funny artwork that proves that something wrong still works.

Richard Garriott

Richard shows us the grounds of Britannia Manor, an elaborate house combining the teenage fantasies of like five separate breeds of boy.

Electric Independence: Moby

Motherboard host Jordan Redaelli hangs out with Moby while he shows him all of his drum machines. Moby dorks out big time.

The Thankless Search for Intelligence Out There... Somewhere

Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared “the most clever child in the world,” is the host of our new Motherboard series. Adora learned to read at three and published her first novel…

The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil

Despite being perceived as an extreme optimist, Kurzweil is the first to admit that this technology could very quickly bring an end to the world as we know it.

Backyard Rocketeer

Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the backyard of his Morelos home/laboratory.

The Body Farm

This hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation’s oldest and largest open-air collection of rotting corpses.

How I Got Famous on The Internetz

For one weekend, the viral internet comes together IRL (in real life). Yup, it’s as bad as it sounds. And by bad, we mean really, really fun. R…

Bent Fest

It was an average Saturday at the DUMBO, Brooklyn outlet of Mikey’s Hook Up, a computer retailer and repair specialist. Well-groomed arty-types came in, alone, in…

Brian Gibson: A Total Change In Lifestyle

To brew his distinctive earth-crunching, head-banging bass sounds for noise band Lightning Bolt, Brian Gibson constructs some of the most complex playing techniques and pedal arrangements known

Sid Meier and The 48 Hour Game

He is one of the most acclaimed game designers of all time having created everything from Civilization I through IV, Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and dozens of other titles. Most recently

Space Shuttle Parking Lot

It is by now a somewhat common event, one that for most Americans is signaled by nothing more than a brief clip on the news. But a shuttle launch is still one of mankind’s most complex and…

The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland

When Dennis Chamberland was 12 years old, he dreamed of escaping his small Oklahoman town for somewhere much farther away. One day he wrote a letter to NASA’s Ken…

The Madagascar Institute

What you need to know about the Madagascar Institute, first of all, is that it’s not a collective. That word’s too hippy, too emotional, not active enough. They’re a “com…

Colombian Narcosubs

Colombian drug traffickers up the ante with homemade coke-smuggling submarines.

Monrovian Analog Blogger

Internet-starved Monrovians turn to this guy’s dry-erase board for all their news-aggregating needs.

Electric Independence - JD Samson

Most people who know JD Samson know her as the awesome, pubestachio’d beat-maker for the once-sorely-missed and now-thrillingly- reunited Le Tigre. A select few are also fans of her recent…

Black Holes and Big Bangs

VBS explores CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, to determine whether its 17 miles of tubing buried under the Franco-…

Television Meltdown by Soso Limited

Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture,…

The Atomic Trucker

John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke.

The Electrophobes

Being allergic to electricity isn’t a death sentence, but it is a lifetime-of-boredom sentence.

Oscar Niemeyer 101

The man who created Brazil’s crazy space-age moon-capital. In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country’s int…

I, Professor Sankai

While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more “sophisticated” side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretens…

Electric Independence: Matmos

For the debut of the second season of Electric Independence, Motherboard’s electronic music series, we visited Matmo at their Baltimore studio.

The Biggest Telescope on Earth

Motherboard travelled to the English countryside to check out the largest telescope in the world.

Electric Independence: Oneohtrix Point Never

Daniel Lopatin, the man behind the psychedelic IDM project Oneohtrix Point Never, has very intimate relationships with his keyboards.

Immaculate Telegraphy

All your merit patches probably wouldn’t amount to much if, say, you found yourself needing to restart civilization from scratch.

Hi-Tech Guerilla Gardening

Vanessa Harden is like the ‘Q’ of the guerrilla gardening world.

Electric Independence: Chromeo

In advance of their new album Business Casual, Motherboard visited the groove scientists at home in Montreal to sample their secret synth sauce.

Mars On Earth

Motherboard’s Kelly Loudenberg recently paid a visit to the Station to get a glimpse of life of Mars on Earth.

Networked City

If you can’t wait around for the future to happen, chances are you will feel at home at the FutureEverything festival.

The Technological Disobedience Of Ernesto Oroza

Ernesto Orozo, designer and artist, found that the general population of Cuba had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival.

Oral History of Gaming: Alex Rigopulos

When he was leaving the M.I.T. Media Lab in 1995, Alex Rigopulos and his classmates decided they wanted to make music-making accessible to the masses.

The Cyborg

In 1998, Kevin Warwick became the world’s first cyborg. But he doesn’t want to become a robot; he wants to be a better human…

Scion DJ Car

Liz Phillips

In Episode 5 of Sound Builders, we cooked up an Electronic Banquet with renowned sound installation artist Liz Phillips. Liz has created dozens of amazing interactive sound and multimedia instal…

Janet Hansen

Janet Hansen has sewn her lifelong passions for fashion, art, and technology together into spectacular lighted costumery that’s illuminated performers like Daft Punk and

Peaking Lights

We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as…

Electric Independence: DEVO

Motherboard visits DEVO in California. We check out their studio and learn how these pioneers of weird pop are reinventing themselves for the Internet Age. As the whole…

Diego Stocco

In episode 2 of Sound Builders, we travel to Burbank, CA to hang out with sound designer and composer Diego Stocco. In addition to writing music for video games and little films like Terminator,…

Jonah Peretti:The King of Internet Buzz

If the Internet ever had a mad scientist who mailed tasty viruses to millions of inboxes, Jonah Peretti would be him.

Dr. Nakamats: Patently Strange

Motherboard visits Nakamatsu’s lab in Tokyo to learn more about the mad scientist’s inventions, his underwater brainstorm sessions, and his quest to activate technological creativity i

Eric Zimmerman

Eric Zimmerman can’t stop making games. An accomplished game designer, artist, and academic of play, he’s been exploring innovative video game design since the heady 90s.

2010 Medals: Turning Circuit Boards Into Olympic Gold

The 2010 medals are the first to be made of recycled metals and circuit boards.

Fashion Geek

Diana Eng calls herself the Fashion Geek and after realizing that calculus and engineering weren’t exactly for her she decided to apply her talents elsewhere, the fashion industry. She&rsq…

Electric Independence: Xeno and Oaklander

Meet Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBridge. Together they make up the minimal synth band Xeno and Oaklander. They record in their Brooklyn studio using an arsenal of exclusively analog instruments. The…

The Gaming Hour - Assassins Creed 2 / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

VBS gaming expert Stephen Lea Sheppard reviews Assassin’s Creed 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Electric Independence: XXXChange

In this episode of Electric Independence, we head out to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to visit producer and DJ Alex Upton (aka XXXChange) at his home studio.

Fuel: A Documentary About Fuel

Eddy Moretti goes to the home of Josh Tickell and his fiancé Rebecca Harrell to discuss the slow rise and drastic fall of the green-movement they helmed.

The Gaming Hour: Arkham Asylum / HALO ODST

VBS gaming expert Stephen Lea Sheppard openly confirms that Batman Arkham Asylum is the best super hero game in existence and that it deserves a spot on the list for game

Electric Independence: RJD2

VBS heads to Philadelphia to make cinnamon-dusted cobbler with acclaimed DJsician RJD2

The Survival of Mark Pauline

Mark Pauline’s Survival Research Laboratories create some of the most dangerous machines ever made, rivaling the military. But instead of turning their threats on us, the machines blow each other…

PAX Gaming Expo 2009

Motherboard hangs out with nerd bands, gamers and developers, and finds out why PAX is the biggest and best video gaming convention in America.

Cai Guo-Qiang and the Art of Fire Medicine

VBS meets Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist who paints with exploding gunpowder.

Electric Independence: Holy Ghost!

Motherboard takes a stroll down the block to Holy Ghost!‘s home studio where we conduct a massive drool-sesh over their cache of analog gear.

The Stylophone

How a cheap wooden toy captured the imagination of musical weirdos like David Bowie and Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk.

The Gaming Hour - Bionic Commando/X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Stephen Lea Sheppard reviews Bionic Commando and X-Men Origins: Wolverine in a precise, scholarly and accurate manner.

The Electronic Persecution of Jesus Mendoza

Motherboard travels to Texas to meet Jesus, a man who claims the government is persecuting him with satellite radiation.

Robotic Hackers

A hovel of MIT grads embark on a Red Bull and cigarette-fueled robotics bender.

The Virtusphere

Finally, a virtual reality system you walk around in like some kind of giant man-hamster.

Mini Sumo Robots

Mexicans conquer the last bastion of US/Japanese superiority: competitive robotics.

Damanhur: Selfic Laboratory for the Future of Humanity

The vast underground temples and secret chambers of Damanhur.

Alexei Shulgin and the Art of No Brain

The warped, cyberdelic art-gadgsets of Moscow’s Electroboutique.

Ralph Lundsten's Andromeda Galaxy

Ralph Lundsten’s recording studio is its own country.

Twin Galaxies and the Golden Domes

Serving as referee and scorekeeper to the world’s gamers is only a sideline to Walter Day’s real interest: Transcendental Meditation

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

Tatsuya Matsui wants to make his robotic children part of your everday life.

Dr. White's Total Body Transplant

Talkin’ bout advanced neurology at the Geneva, Ohio Mickey D’s.

The Gaming Hour - Call of Duty/The Last Remnant

Live-action video game reviews by Vice’s in-house expert, Stephen Lea Sheppard, aka TV’s Harris Trinsky.