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America Is Building and Buying More Fuel Efficient Cars Than Ever Before
America's gas guzzlers are finally disappearing.
Brian Merchant
11.5.12
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A Cloud Atlas Atlas
Cloud Atlas is also a compendium of things, things that may or may not point to the future of the universe, maybe.
ALEX PASTERNACK
11.5.12
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Why Can't We Vote on Our iPhones Yet?
E-voting sounds nice, but it's a guaranteed disaster.
Adam Clark Estes
11.5.12
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Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses?
When big firms get hacked, they generally just sweep it under the rug.
Adam Clark Estes
11.5.12
Motherboard Blog

How to Print Your Own Drone Blimp
A whole new breed of printed drones – robo zeppelins – could soon be scuttling above in lazy, long-endurance circles.
Brian Anderson
11.5.12
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How Apple and the Rest of the Tech Giants Avoid Billions in Taxes
Cork-based Apple Operations International and Apple Sales International are two pieces of a global tax strategy that helped Apple pay just $713 million this year on foreign profits of $36.8 billion. That’s a tax rate of 1.9 percent.
Mclean Gordon
11.5.12
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NASA Explains How Frankenstorm Sandy Was Born
Now understand how Sandy was built. This is what it looked like from the inside.
Brian Merchant
11.5.12
Motherboard Blog

The New Star Wars Will Be Awesome, But It Will Also Suck
For fans of the beloved Star Wars series, the emotional fallout of Disney’s $4 billion dollar purchase of LucasFilm on Tuesday has been fraught with more angst than a middle schooler’s fanfiction.
Kerri Connolly
11.5.12
The Mercy Rule

Chris Berman Will Decide Our Nation's Fate
Sports and politics will collide in an ugly mess tonight, when Monday Night Football airs the pre-recorded interviews Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have just now done with ESPN's Chris Berman—a man who has the coloration and analytical savvy of a yam...
David Roth
11.5.12
News

Paul Ryan: What Stupid People Think a Smart Guy Sounds Like
His popularity among voters isn't much of a surprise. Ryan's good-looking and articulate. Most importantly, he can convince people there's intellectual gravitas behind his words. It’s sort of like the Ross Perot phenomenon, a man for whom 20 million...
Bhaskar Sunkara
11.5.12
Art

Enter The "Fractiverse" In Zone Patcher's Digital Collages
Take a look at how artist Zone Patcher creates his mesmerizingly complex fractal collages.
Joey Goldsmith
11.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Laika Died So We Could Travel Space
Khrushchev wanted a launch to correspond with the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on November 7. Korolev said he could do it and upped the ante. He suggested this second Sputnik carry a dog.
Amy Teitel
11.5.12
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