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How We Ruined Silicon Valley
Long an oasis of innovation and meritocracy, Silicon Valley has often represented all that is pure in capitalism, a place where guys dare to dream big and big dreams come true, making its players outrageously wealthy, but also producing the kinds of...
ALEC LIU
5.23.12
Film

Ridley Scott Waxes Poetic On The Art Of Storyboarding
The director talks about this seminal part of the filmmaking process.
Kevin Holmes
5.23.12
Film

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Sergio Calderón
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kathleen Flood
5.23.12
Features

Ceremony Plays It Fast And Loose In Both Music And Life
For a band that "isn't angry or aggressive," they sure do play some mean Powerviolence.
Katie Bennett
5.23.12
Design

The B9Creator Home Market 3D Printer Prints In High Resolution
The 3D printer home market gets ever more crowded.
Kevin Holmes
5.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Spying for Science: Unmanned Drones Hit the Arctic
Unmanned drones are everywhere now. We all know this. They’re soaring around Afghanistan shooting missiles at, and often missing, terrorists and people who happen to live near them. They’re commandeered by police precincts around the nation, who are...
Brian Merchant
5.23.12
Music

We Interviewed 50 Cent and DJ Drama
50 Cent is basically a weird dude at heart. Especially after having food poisoning.
Drew Millard
5.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Your iPhone is Killing Americans Too
The raw materials for your iPhone are mined in atrocious conditions on one continent and assembled by overtired, underpaid and suicide-prone factory workers on another. Consumer electronics like smart phones, as Isaac Wilder, the head of the Free the...
Brian Merchant
5.23.12
NSFW

My VICE Internship Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Having a Dick
They are unwieldy and secrete weird stuff at inappropriate times.
Michelle Lhooq
5.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Jacked-In Soldiers and Military Neuroethics: An Interview with Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno
When our brains pretty much define who we are, what happens when you start adding tech in there? And what happens when you take it away?
Derek Mead
5.23.12
Music

Scraps Makes Classic Shits and Beautiful Videos
This entirely electronically composed music is as caked with pregnant intrigue and damaged beauty as an attic-found crazy glued together figurine.
Tony Rettman
5.23.12
News

Welcome… To Reaganurassic Park
An auction house is selling some of Ronald Reagan's blood. Am I the only one who realizes this is going to end with an amusement park filled with Reagan clones?
Harry Cheadle
5.23.12
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