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This New Twitter Tracker Targets Teenage Bullies' Anti-Gay Tweets

A new embeddable Twitter tracker aims to out teenage bullies who target queers.
Brian Merchant
4.26.13
Motherboard Blog

The Inventor of Shodan Will Help You Hack Our Internet-Enabled, Security-Free Infrastructure

All of these devices need to be on the internet to operate and Shodan – a privately developed search engine – has been busy sniffing them out.
Sam Clements
4.26.13
Features

Cheatahs' Guide to Touring America

These guys live in London and they'd never toured America until they joined Wavves and Fidlar on the road for six weeks. This is what they learned on their journey.
Kim Taylor Bennett
4.26.13
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Placed Electric Cages over Dead Zebras to Study the Spread of Anthrax

Anthrax outbreaks can be extremely costly for conservationists and wildlife managers.
Derek Mead
4.26.13
News

A Factory Collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, and 300 People Were Crushed to Death

On Wednesday, more than 2,500 workers outside of Dhaka went to work in a factory where cracks had just recently appeared in the walls. The building collapsed. At this writing 300 people are confirmed dead, around 600 injured. Nine hundred people are...
James Pogue
4.26.13
Tech

Is Shodan Really the World's Most Dangerous Search Engine?

It can help you hack into crematoriums, power plants and dams.
Sam Clements
4.26.13
Art

This interactive audio installation compels us to listen to the sonic design of New York City.

This interactive audio installation compels us to listen to the sonic design of New York City.
Michelle Lhooq
4.26.13
Interviews

R.A. the Rugged Man is the Craziest Rap Legend Still Kicking

"When I came on the scene, I was a shock to the system. I was the originator. They were like, 'Wait, if you come into hip-hop, you gotta be respectful. What are you doing? You’re crazy.'"
Drew Millard
4.26.13
Stuff

'Yomango' Is Barcelona's Ideological Shoplifting Movement

The world's economy is still fucked. And ever since the West went into an economic meltdown in 2008, anticonsumerist sentiment has been steadily on the rise. While proletariats in the US have largely settled for memories of Zuccotti, the Catalan civil...
Aleks Eror
4.26.13
Motherboard Blog

One Look at the Bangladeshi Sweatshop Companies’ Dead Websites Reveals How Hellish They Were

The fact that these Bangladeshi workers were gravely endangered was right there on their websites, available to anyone who cared to look. Walmart, for one, didn't.
Brian Merchant
4.26.13
Features

What Music Are Cops Listening To?

I conducted an unscientific survey by staying up one night, drinking a bunch of pink SoBE and vodka, and calling up random precincts around the country to find out what music the man is into these days.
Trevor Moore
4.26.13
Travel

The Imaginary Republic of Molossia

When he is not the president of Molossia, Kevin Baugh is a retired sergeant first class of the US Army, working in the human-resources department of the Nevada National Guard. It would seem that declaring himself supreme ruler of a sovereign nation...
Carmen Machado
4.26.13
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