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We Want Our Organ Donors to Be Like Us
New research suggests that we prefer organ donations from people most like us in both body and mind. But should we trust those instincts before going under the knife?
Andrew Overton
6.20.13
Motherboard Blog

Math Can Predict the Future of Cities and Urban Sprawl
The age of the “megacity” is upon us. Might as well welcome anything that can help us prepare for it with open arms.
Meghan Neal
6.20.13
Motherboard Blog

Surveillance for All: Foreign Governments' Responses to the PRISM Scandal Are Telling
The NSA's surveillance program has provoked a variety of responses from foreign governments and leaders.
DJ Pangburn
6.20.13
Premieres

Watch Phaseone's Trippy Video for "Hunter"
Grab yourself a saddle and get ready to ride a majestic horse.
Noisey Staff
6.20.13
Photo

Romanian Immigrants and Their Magnificent Mansions
Hey, British xenophobes: Ever wonder where all those Romanian immigrants who've been stealing your jobs have been spending your money? Judging by Petrut Calinescu's photos, they've been throwing it into the building of strange, gigantic mansions that...
Paulius Ka
6.20.13
Motherboard Blog

The Military-Information Complex Is Growing in Silicon Valley
Halliburton 2.0 has most likely already been founded.
Brian Merchant
6.20.13
Question Of The Day

What’s the Worst Way You’ve Ever Dumped Someone?
"Pocket-dialling a guy and saying how much I hated him."
Kieran Morris
6.20.13
News

Cowboy Capitalists
In 2012, entrepreneur Ian Cox nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list. The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless...
Tim Freccia
6.20.13
Meet the Nieratkos

Help Put Strippers Through College
For just dollars a minute you can help feed a starving cam girl! They'll do anything you want for $10, just no transcribing interviews.
Chris Nieratko
6.20.13
Music

1024 Architecture Create An Interactive Light Show For Thump's Up Next Party
LED orbs and interactive fireworks light up this incredible dance music spectacle.
Julia Kaganskiy
6.20.13
Art

Shakespeare 2.0: Midsummer Night's Dreaming Brings The Bard To Social Media
The Royal Shakespeare Company and Google Creative Lab team up for a digital theatre project.
Kevin Holmes
6.20.13
vice shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Boobie'
In Boobie, writer and star Brian Petsos is playful with his violence, taking it to obscene levels but leveling it with deadpan comic delivery. Going head-to-head with a mustached Elijah Wood, he hosts a Mexican standoff in a sick take on the...
Jeffrey Bowers
6.20.13
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