Latest

Motherboard Blog

A Brief History of Keeping Cool: Air Conditioning Through the Ages

Perhaps you too have lined up a bunch of glasses of ice water in front of a box fan in front of your face in a desperate attempt to cool your overheating brains before full-on cranial core meltdown. It didn't work all that well, probably. Life without...
Michael Byrne
6.9.12
News

I Just Saw a Guy Get Shot At

He told the police to fuck off.
Caisa Ederyd, Photos: Ben Day
6.9.12
Motherboard Blog

How to be Cyberpunk!

Something broke in the mix of drugs and sex and leather-clad hacking. In the slippage from underground to Billy Idol, from sub-culture to fashion, from present to future, the movement evaporated. Or maybe it just evolved into birds.
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.9.12
Music

Hyped: The Week In Links 6/8

Busy week? Here are some things you may have missed.
Kevin Holmes
6.8.12
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: Sulumi, Emicida, And Chilly Gonzales

The latest from China’s chiptune scene, Emicida remixes himself for the Max Payne 3 soundtrack, and La Nonsense strip down Chilly Gonzales.
Kathleen Flood
6.8.12
Design

Floating Shiny Knot Is The Best Use Of Google Maps API, And Hours Of Your Time

It’s the end of the week. Time to zone out for a few.
Abdullah Saeed
6.8.12
Noisey

Curren$y Knows His Food in NYC

Noisey caught up with the New Orleans Spitta at Bubby's in NYC, which happens to be his favorite place to eat when he's stoned.
Noisey Staff
6.8.12
The Mercy Rule

The Oklahoma Problem

Oklahoma is pretty terrible at being a state, but their basketball team is fantastic.
David Roth
6.8.12
Features

Belgian New Beat Taught Me How To Dance

Here are five moves you need to know for any night out.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
6.8.12
Sports

Lebron James: The No-Fun Superstar

Back in the day, everyone wanted to be like Mike. Who wants to be like LeBron?
Harry Cheadle
6.8.12
Motherboard Blog

San Francisco in 1975: Burn Your TVs at the Cow Palace

In 1975, performance art collective Ant Farm burned a stack of TVs in their piece “Media Burn” because they believed the technology of television produced “hierarchy” and “alienation”. One confident member even predicted that their performance would...
Katie Bennett
6.8.12
Motherboard Blog

You're Not Prepared For A Zombie Apocalypse by Any Stretch of the Imagination

All this talk about the global pandemic of inexplicably aggressive behavior, strange skin disorders, face eating, self mutilation, intestine throwing, and the dead rising from their graves has predictably got a lot of folks talking about zombie...
Chris O'Coin
6.8.12
2409126284