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The World's Smallest Autopilot Aircraft Can Fit In Your Front Pocket
This super-tiny drone weighs 1.9 grams and can still hold a camera.
Zach Sokol
8.26.13
Premieres

Listen to Brick Squad-Affiliated Producer C4's New Track "Work that Dough" Featuring Young Thug and Peewee Longway
From C4's upcoming mixtape 'Decoded.'
Skinny Friedman
8.26.13
Stuff

Why Is Justin Trudeau's Marijuana Misadventure Newsworthy?
Even though Justin has been parading around praising marijuana and asking for its decriminalization, the “news” that he enjoys the chronic leaf appeared to come as a surprise to all sorts of easily surprised individuals.
Stephanie Mercier Voyer
8.26.13
Features

Keep Chief Keef Weird
How does one explain Chief Keef's recent, experimental-leaning output? You get just as weird as him.
Bauce Sauce
8.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California
Oil companies are turning to fracking's freaky cousin, "matrix acidization" in hopes of dissolving their way to 15 billion barrels of oil locked underneath California.
Brian Merchant
8.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Blocking Pirate Sites Does Nothing to Stop Piracy
Has Big Media learned nothing from the War or Drugs?
Meghan Neal
8.26.13
Features

The VMAs Are Proof That America Is Dead Inside
And why it could help Macklemore to cede the mic once and a while.
Drew Millard
8.26.13
News

Activists Find No Place on Egypt's Streets
In the heat of a Cairo summer, the battle lines have been drawn. In the tense standoff, Abdelazim Fahmy, better known as Zizo Abdo, finds no room on the street for revolutionaries like himself. I met with Zizo at a downtown Cairo café, where we were a...
Abdalla F. Hassan
8.26.13
Art

German Artist Launches An Ambitious Experiment To Bring Geese To The Moon
Merging science, design and literature, Agnes Meyer-Brandis is working on a fanciful new project in 'Moon Goose Analogue.'
Johnny Magdaleno
8.26.13
Germany

Can Germany Really Tax Bitcoin?
The German government thinks it can tax and regulate Bitcoin. A crypto-economist in Berlin isn't so sure.
Greg Thomas
8.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Did Steve Jobs Eat Just Any Old LSD?
We'll never really know for sure. But there's reason to believe the late Apple co-founder may've seen the fabled CLEARLIGHT.
Brian Anderson
8.26.13
Interviews

Propagandhi’s Chris Hannah Talks Gay Hockey Players, CM Punk, and Why He Kind Of Hates His First Album
We asked the Canadian frontman of Propagandhi which he'd give up first: music or hockey. Spoiler alert: He's still thinking about it.
Dan Ozzi
8.26.13
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