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You Should Probably Start Caring About Quantum Computing Now

The future of computing edges on the present.
Michael Byrne
3.10.13
Motherboard Blog

Angelo Musco's Millions of Naked, Swirling Bodies Evoke Birth, Transmigration

Using Photoshop, green screens, and lots of naked people, Musco fuses art, humanity and nature.
Austin Considine
3.9.13
talkin' 'bout the boards

Um... Mental Smoking?

Why do you say such dumb stuff on our website? WHY? The only way I can deal with it is by drawing funny little pictures based on them. Here you go, this is my 38th Talkin' 'Bout The Boards column.
Nick Gazin
3.9.13
Film

The Anti-Jukebox Musical: ‘Peaches Does Herself’

This Sunday, the HAU Theater in Berlin hosts the European premiere of Peaches's rock opera cum feature film, 'Peaches Does Herself.'
Nadja Sayej
3.9.13
taji's mahal

Clayton Patterson and the History of Tattooing in NYC

For this week's Mahal, I met up with Clayton Patterson to discuss the history of tattooing in New York City. He has been photographing the tattoo scene both in New York City and around the world for over three decades and just recently hosted the book...
Taji Ameen
3.9.13
FIGHTLAND

The Psychology of Submitting

Mixed martial arts is unique in sports in having a major percentage of its outcomes decided by a choice: to endure pain and risk injury or to tap out. The science of how pain works within the body is widely understood. What is less clear is what...
Mike Bebernes
3.9.13
Motherboard Blog

This Week in Our Uncontrollably Warming Planet

Another week, another onslaught of news about how catastrophically fucked our human-stuffed toaster of a planet is.
Brian Merchant
3.9.13
More Than a Model
2:17

Rosie Tapner is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

We visit the idyllic Berkshire countryside for a healthy day out with Topshop campaign star and sporty schoolgirl Rosie Tapner.
Motherboard Blog

The Knife Slices Open Gender with a Proper New Video

The Knife the electropop duo, that is.
Michael Byrne
3.8.13
Adult Problems

Adult Problems - Nuclear Santa Claust Moved to NYC from Not-NYC and That's Okay

With a sound like if developmentally challenged otters were raised in a basement in Queens, with nothing but Chomsky and a well abused copy of City Baby Attacked by Rats to survive on.
Zachary Lipez
3.8.13
NSFW

We Love Synchrodogs and Their Naked People

Deep in the forests of Ukraine live two spritely photographers named Tania and Roman who work together in perfect harmony to create some of the most surreal, confounding, intriguing, and beautiful photographs of naked people we have ever seen.
Christian Storm
3.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Why Microsoft Is Letting Chinese Censors Spy on Skype Users

Looking at Skype's growth rate alone — one in three calls! — you can see that people would rather get free international calls that hold onto their right to privacy.
Adam Clark Estes
3.8.13
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