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MIT Uses Video Games to Create the Smartest, Scariest Computer Ever
Remember how much of a pain _SimCity_ was? Now imagine trying to play it in Russian. Researchers at MIT have created machine-learning systems that are able to analyze instruction manuals to help them beat video games. By correlating terms they come...
Video Time Machine, the App for iPhone and iPad is Actually Worth Buying
h5. I wish there were some hip videos of Abe Lincoln. He's my favorite. I hate that one "friend" everyone has that always brings up television shows from yesteryear and is all like, "remember this song?" and starts singing the _Punky Brewster...
Rediscovering Tapper, The Greatest Beer Arcade Game Ever
Careening into a "Brooklyn bar":http://brandedsaloon.com/ recently, I came across a lone, beaten arcade game tucked behind a booth. I normally wouldn't pay the usual _Big Buck Hunter_ or _Golden Tee_ any mind, but this was different. The cabinet was...
Ones and Zeros: Large Scale Wi-Fi, Small Penises
_Could be a good time to leave the funeral home business_ h3. ONE: Scientists predict that living forever will be a reality in 25 years ("NewsDaily":http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7632id-us-ageing-cure/) h3. Zero: casey anthony trial is now...
Spooky Action, Quantum Entanglement, Smites Nature In a Whole New Way
Researchers in Vienna have demonstrated that it’s possible to create a system that behaves in an entangled way, minus any actual quantum entanglement. That is, two things in a quantum system can be correlated in a way unexplainable by anything we...
Bent Festival 2011: Our Favorite Music-Hacker Meetup Is Just Around The Bend
A lot has happened in the world of DIY electronics since last year's Bent Festival: A major hardware manufacturer sued a kid for showing people how to "hack their game consoles":. Another one was telling people that reverse-engineering their motion...
"What Hath God Wrought": Not Quite the First Telegraph
167 years ago, about a mile from where I'm sitting in Baltimore, an inventor named Alfred Vail (Samuel Morse's number-two) is hanging around a train station waiting beside one of the first telegraph devices. It's not the tappy tap key kind we think of...
Leviathan's Matt Daly re-teams with VSL and David Corso
The Marquee's dazzling custom media system is controlled by an iPad.
Building An Afterlife That Doesn't Go To Hell
*A look back at Lucasarts’ heavenly and hellish sim* Heaven and Hell are on fire again, and it’s all my fault. My advisers, a chirpy cherub named Aria and a sardonic demon in a suit named Jasper, have both tendered their resignations. It seems I...
Toolbox: Buy Yourself Some Time With File Destructor
h4. Hey sailor, welcome to Toolbox. This is the place where Motherboard’ll be telling you every week about this or that bit of software that you really need to have on your computer or phone-computer now. Requirements for something to be in our toolbox...
1,000 (Pixelated) Ways to Die
An homage to classic video games accompanied with an epic MIDI version of "Mad World." Nice!
World of Warcraft Creator Turns 20: A Look Back
... but you're still not old enough to drink - sorry!