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User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Visual Effects Artist Matthias Müller

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Julie Le Baron
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

The World of Prosthetic Art Is Marvelous

Prostheses are a lot of things — practical, functional, useful — but pretty they are not. Your standard prosthetic leg is typically nothing more than flesh-colored hunk of plastic designed, if anything, to be ignored or overlooked. But a handful of...
Adam Estes
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Empathy Machine: Going Face-in-Face with Megan May Daalder

Megan May Daalder is a young artist in Los Angeles who is responsible for the Mirrorbox, a hands-on piece that uses two-way mirrors and a lighting sequence to allow two participants to momentarily blend their faces together in a genuinely arresting...
Claire L. Evans
8.29.12
Photos

GETME! Pre-Carnival Warm Up at Birthdays

There were parties before the Notting Hill Carnival, you know.
Yusuf Laher
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

How Technology Makes Patents Irrelevant: An IP Lawyer Discusses Apple v. Samsung

Samsung is a copycat, the jury ruled, after just three days of deliberation, awarding Apple over a billion dollars in damages. For the inventor of the iPhone, it was a convincing victory. In their eyes, it took Samsung just three months to steal...
ALEC LIU
8.29.12
Fashion

Are You a Heterosexual Male Diva?

I saw the term HMD floating around Twitter the other day and this time it didn't mean "hold my dick," it meant "heterosexual male diva." Let me explain: HMDs are basically straight men who care about stuff that guy-guys don't give a shit about.
Donald Crunk
8.29.12
Question Of The Day

What Song Would You Play to Aliens?

We can't play Will.i.am, he looks like a steampunk clown.
Phoebe Hurst, Rosie Parry
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch In Horror As Dumb Humans Accidentally Set an Endangered Orangutan On Fire

I've got a real soft spot for orangutans because they're orange and hairy and thus look kind of like me. The Bornean orangutans, one of two orangutan species, calls "Borneo":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, an island off the coast of Indonesia...
Derek Mead
8.29.12
Motherboard Blog

World of Warcraft Is No Longer Available In Iran, Thanks to U.S. Sanctions

The latest casualty of Iranian sanctions: The world's most famous MMORPG.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.29.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

How to Punch Out a Paparazzo

Socking a pap isn’t that hard. You too can be immortalized for punching some guy trying to take a photo of you, just like Sean Penn, Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, and Chris Martin, by following these five easy steps.
Brian Moylan
8.29.12
Music

We Interviewed Lunice from TNGHT

If you’ve ever heard music by TNGHT, aka the project of Glaswegian producer Hudson Mohawke and Canadian beat-thumper Lunice, you know it’s completely fucking insane.
Drew Millard
8.29.12
News

Mitt Romney Hates the Crazy Christians Too

Todd Akin and his ilk have the potential to link the Republican Party and the word "rape" permanently in the fickle minds of undecided voters. Romney's not thrilled about that.
James Poulos
8.29.12
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