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What Would You Say to David Cameron If He Was Driving Your Cab?

"'Take me home.' Well, isn't he a taxi driver?"
Joseph Cox and Isabel Maguire
8.12.13
Motherboard Blog

The NSA Scandal Will Cost US Tech Companies Tens of Billions

The PRISM scandal and related surveillance programs have dissolved any trust consumers could have in the privacy of US-based servers.
Derek Mead
8.12.13
News

The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown

Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time for sharing a link that contained, within an archive of 5 million emails...
Patrick McGuire
8.12.13
Motherboard Blog

How Marine Life Is Responding to Warming Oceans

I spoke over the phone with one of the researchers, Dr. Camille Parmesan, to get her impressions of the study and its implications.
DJ Pangburn
8.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Watch the 1967 Documentary that Cooled Off 'Glass-Palace Office Blocs'

As you start the work week in climate-controlled comfort, take a trip back to a time when office drones were legitimately hot and bothered.
Brian Anderson
8.12.13
Design

Strawscraper: The Future of Sustainable Architecture May Be A Skyscraper Covered In Straws

If Belatchew Arkitekter has its way, Stockholm will someday be home to one of the most innovative and unusual buildings in the world.
Nathan Reese
8.12.13
Features

Watch a Preview of A$AP Rocky on 'Wild N Out'

We liked this clip so much that we asked MTV2 if we could share it with you.
Noisey Staff
8.12.13
Stuff

Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About the Dangers of Texting While Driving

And more film stuff from the Grolsch Film Works blog.
Grolsch Film Works
8.12.13
Sports

Competitive Eating’s Next Great Rivalry Is Chestnut Versus Stonie

For years, Joey Chestnut has dominated the sport of competitive eating the same way Einstein dominated physics. But as the say in Street Fighter, here comes a new challenger—Matt Stonie, a soft-spoken 21-year-old Californian who has already beaten Joey...
Robert Silverman
8.12.13
Tech

When Are We Going to Finally Colonize Space?

The Earth is doomed, and the only question is how long humanity has left. Fortunately, we have options: in the past few years there’s been a flurry of potentially habitable planets discovered. To learn more about our future on other planets, we talked...
Daniel Berleant as Told to Harry Cheadle
By Daniel Berleant as Told to Harry Cheadle
8.12.13
Features

Pete Doherty Locked Me In His Shop

We listened to reggae in silence, that's as awkward as it sounds.
Dan Wilkinson
8.12.13
Music

Moment Factory Creates A Landscape Of Pixels For Nine Inch Nails Tour

Nine Inch Nails pairs up with Moment Factory for unforgettable light show.
Sara Intrator
8.12.13
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