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Here's Stolen Babies' New Video, Plus a Conversation About Sibling Rivalry and Accidental Voyeurism
Stolen Babies played inside a tank of water for the filming of their new video, “Second Sleep.”
Jon Wiederhorn
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

America's Fracking Economy Isn't Helping Anyone
Humankind has been doomed to repeat the oil boomtown cycle for 2,000 years now. And a boomtown in 2013 still looks a lot like a boomtown did in 350 AD.
Brian Merchant
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Facebook's 'Shadow Profile' Bug Proves We've Lost Control Of Our Data
What can Facebook do with your data? Or the government? Or a hacker?
Meghan Neal
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

How Producers of Super Greenhouse Gases Are Blackmailing the Planet
With the collapse of emissions trading in HFC-23, some manufacturers fear losing half their revenue.
Mat McDermott
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Could 'Birth Credits' Stop Overpopulation?
Is it time to look at options that will help curb population growth to protect the environment and the human species as a whole?
Joseph Cox
6.24.13
Travel

I Went to an Abandoned Nazi Ranch
I'm a total coward, but when approached to visit a Nazi bunker in the canyons of Los Angeles, I leapt at the opportunity to finally be a man.
Dave Schilling
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Businesses Better Be Ready for Nasty Space Weather
We are in the late fall, heading for a stormy winter on the Sun. Hold on to your grids.
Ben Richmond
6.24.13
New music

Listen to El Sportivo & The Blooz's "The Night's So Cold"
If you've ever participated in a walk of shame (or pride) you'll relate to this.
Ezra Marcus
6.24.13
Bad Cop Blotter

Yet Another "Justified" Police Shooting
A robbery, a lie told to 911 about a gun, and police officers' potentially itchy trigger fingers led to Kendrec McDade's death last year. Whose fault is it he got shot multiple times despite being unarmed? According to the courts and official reports...
Lucy Steigerwald
6.24.13
Stuff

Meeting Hardcore Drug Users at a Four-Star Hotel in Lithuania
I’m at the four-star Radisson Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, for one of the world’s most cosmopolitan gatherings of former and current drug users. There are heroin injectors from the slums of Nairobi, opium eaters from the streets of Nepal, and...
Max Daly
Max Daly, Photos: Mark Splinter
6.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Why Tesla Is Making Auto Dealers Nervous
Still, that auto dealers are taking Tesla so seriously is great evidence that we all should.
Derek Mead
6.24.13
News

I Woke Up and Calgary Was Flooded
When I woke up in downtown Calgary on Friday morning, I was in the middle of the evacuation zone in an apartment building with no electricity.
Grace Scott
6.24.13
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