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America's Power Plants Are an Open Target for Hackers Because Congress Went on Vacation

With a good old fashioned filibuster, Senate Republicans just blocked the sweeping cybersecurity legislation that some lawmakers have been trying for years to pass, and they don't sound sorry about it. The bill would have set cybersecurity standards...
Adam Estes
8.3.12
Beauty School Dropout

How To Never Look Bad in a Photo Again

Max-out your photogenic potential by dribbling and rolling deep.
Bertie Brandes, Photos: Amber Dixon
8.3.12
Gaming

Our Guide To The 14 Best (And Worst) Video Game Weapons

From the joyous high of red shells to the lowly lameness of the Klobb.
Kevin Holmes
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

When Wall Street Robots Go Rogue, Banks Lose $10 Million a Minute

Wall Street robots went rogue on Wednesday unleashing a torrent of trades that wreaked havoc on the markets and cost one firm nearly half a billion dollars, or about $10 million a minute. It was a “mini flash crash,” experts called it, bringing back...
ALEC LIU
8.3.12
Music

Get Ready for the Hot New Band of the Future, Dork Moron

Enter Dork Moron, two humans who have devised a radical yet primitive solution to the Post-Thought jimbles: they perform physically, in the manner of a Pre-Thought band.
Ben Johnson
8.3.12
Design

Would You Wear CuteCircuit's Programmable, Digital T-Shirt?

It has an LCD screen, a headphone jack, and a camera.
Kevin Holmes
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Is Dubstep Secretly a Beacon of the Avant-Garde?

This is the question posed by our pals at PBS' Idea Channel in a new video, and if anyone out there remembers "old dubstep," it's kind of confounding. Because dubstep at its genesis was actually a way exciting avant-garde genre of music on its own...
Michael Byrne
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Who Owns a Soybean

In 1980, the US Supreme Court ruled that individuals and corporations could patent living organisms. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, a microbiologist working for General Electric, had genetically modified a bacterium to break down crude oil, and GE wanted...
Brian Merchant
8.3.12
Fashion

Life After MySpace for the Scene Queens

MySpace is just a cesspool of pedophiles and bullying and cluttered profile pages. But how would you feel about the site’s demise if you were one of those people who spent all of your free waking hours adding “friends” and tweaking your page to the...
Mitchell Sunderland
8.3.12
The Recent Unpleasantness

Mars Landing Talking Points

"As we all know, the Curiosity rover arrives on Mars this Sunday. Several past Mars missions have generated unfortunate media sideshows over careless employee comments. This will NOT happen with Curiosity."
Sam McPheeters
8.3.12
Noisey

Cute Kids Moshing to Black Flag

In maybe the best You Review yet, we gave little kids "beer" and taught them how to smash the state and circle the pit.
Noisey Staff
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Here's the Prototype of a $9 Fully Ridable Cardboard Bike

So it turns out that building a fully ridable bicycle out of cardboard costs about 9 bucks. Israeli designer Giora Kariv should know, since he's just put the finishing touches on a prototype of what is probably the world's first bike to be made out of...
Brian Merchant
8.3.12
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