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Parquet Courts - "Light Up Gold Road Trip" (Documentary)

Former Motherboard editor Sean Yeaton used to walk around the VICE offices carrying a Bunsen burner and saying stuff like, "Drones are the future!" Then his band, Parquet Courts, took off and he was like, "Working at a computer all day is the pits! I'm going on tour." Here's a documentary we made about him and his bandmates. Full story

Lessons from the Second Great Bitcoin Crash

Only a week ago, it seemed like bitcoin could do no wrong. The digital currency’s value against the US dollar surged past $200, at one point reaching $270. Then, suddenly, as many expected, the bubble finally popped, and it all came crashing down. Full story

Cuba's Digital Enemy Number One

Watch Motherboard's new video about Cuba's underground railroad of USB drives, how to blog without a computer, and how Raúl Castro is getting craftier at using the internet as a weapon against dissidents. Full story

My Life Online

The Man Behind @DadBoner

We caught up Mike Burns, the comedic genius, VICE contributor, and fully grown man-child behind the @DadBoner Twitter phenomenon. We watched some WWE, drank a few domestos (that means beer), and talked about the internet, comedy, comedy on the internet, and online humor. Full story

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Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

Cody R. Wilson is a 25-year-old University of Texas law student who is working to build semiautomatic weapons using a 3D printer. Cody is an articulate and tech-savvy mouthpiece for the fight against gun control. I flew down to his home base of Austin, Texas, with a Motherboard f… Full story

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'Click. Print. Gun.' (Trailer)

Cody R. Wilson has figured out how to print a semiautomatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. Our documentary 'Click. Print. Gun.' investigates this groundbreaking technology and how it is changing th… Full story

North Korea's Nuclear Warhead Is Reportedly Lighter and More Powerful

North Korea has been on a bit of an aggressive bent lately, and the country just pushed things to a new level by reportedly conducting its third nuclear test. Pyongyang has been expected to conduct a test to follow up on its previous tests in 2006 and 2009, and last night a magni… Full story

America's 'Secret' Drone Base in Saudi Arabia Is Growing

It's dozens of miles from the closest road and even farther from the nearest village. And it's getting bigger. Full story

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The Space Suit Makers

When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Full story

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Valley of the UFOs

We ventured to Hooper, Colorado (population: 105) to investigate some of the stranger things that have gone down there—from shooting stars to strange weather patterns to aliens descending to Earth in extraterrestrial space pods. Full story