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Global Food Poisoning in Italy

Bra is the sort of town where old women really do wear all black to signify their widowhood and where the stores are closed for three, sometimes four, hours every afternoon. I went there to study Piedmontese regional food culture but instead found a...
Kristen Martin
1.13.13
Tech

Aaron Swartz's Tragic Battle with Copyright

Aaron H. Swartz, one of our most vigorous champions of open access and copyright reform, committed suicide in New York City on Friday at the age of 26. He was a pioneer and a renegade, part of the team that built Reddit as well as the widely-used RSS...
Leandro Oliva and Adam Clark Estes
1.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Aaron Swartz's Tragic Battle With Copyright

There's a good chance that Swartz affected how you use the Internet, and how you will use it.
Leandro Oliva and Adam Clark Estes
1.12.13
Tech

Why So Many Booth Babes, CES 2013?

Sure, booth babes are a gimicky grab for attention. But the gimick only works if the audience is male. And the presence of such a gendered gimick only serves to reinforce the idea that the tech world is largely by men and for men.
Kelly Bourdet
1.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Letter from CES: Your Car Will One Day Be Driven by Your Phone

Automated cars are coming, and they're coming soon.
Derek Mead
1.12.13
News

Pooping in Trash Bags with London's Squatters

Will the cultural vibrancy of squatting, which offers many young Londoners the "economic amnesty" to pursue their art, be crushed by "Weatherley's Law," which bans squatting in residential properties? We met a bunch of urban homesteaders to find out.
Simon Childs, Photos: Henry Langston, Jake Lewis an
1.12.13
Stuff

Kaufman on Kaufman: An Interview with Andy's Brother

A new exhibition focused on Andy Kaufman titled 'On Creating Reality' opens Saturday at Maccarone gallery. The show will feature a boatload of Andy's personal effects, as well as a rotating cast of his close friends and family members, at least one of...
Jonathan Smith
1.12.13
Stuff

The Frenzied Conspiracy Theories of Jeff Boss

Jeff was wallpapering Times Square with big photocopied broadsides when I first met him. He was clutching one that read: “JEFF BOSS WITNESSED THE NSA ARRANGE 911.” He saw me watching him. “Do you work for the NSA?” he asked.
Roc Morin
1.12.13
Travel

Global Food Poisoning in Italy

Bra is the sort of town where old women really do wear all black to signify their widowhood and where the stores are closed for three, sometimes four, hours every afternoon. I went there to study Piedmontese regional food culture but instead found a...
Kristen Martin
1.12.13
Stuff

Taji's Mahal - After Hours with Nelson "Loui_D" Darden

For this week's Mahal, I'm introducing a new series of videos that finds me cruising the streets with New York City's finest shredders. I will be dropping these from time to time as the weather permits.
Taji Ameen
1.12.13
Stuff

Michael Haneke’s Everyday Horror

In Haneke’s world, horror isn't something that attacks us from the outside. It hasn’t been living in the house we moved into. It hasn’t just shown up. The brutality that we find in Haneke’s films is what we brought into the theater with us.
Jarrod Shanahan
1.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Future Sex: What Booth Babes Say About Tech

Why so many booth babes, CES 2013?
Kelly Bourdet
1.12.13
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