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Motherboard TV: Electric Independence: JD Samson

I was enjoying a NY Times dispatch from Silicon Valley about Ellen Pao, a junior partner “at the distinguished venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,” who’s brought a sexual discrimination lawsuit against her employer. It’s a key...
Derek Mead
6.5.12
New music

RCRD LBL - Bonnaroo 2012 Playlist

Get ready for 'Roo with this RCRD LBL playlist.
Rcrd Lbl
6.5.12
Features

SPIN - The 21 Greatest K-Pop Songs

SPIN compiles the best K-Pop tunes that are making it around the world.
VICE Staff
6.5.12
Question Of The Day

What Sort of Person Wants to Bone You?

For whatever reason, Asian girls just dig me. Maybe my Western brashness is exotic to them? Who knows?
Oz K
6.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Unemployment Numbers Don't Mean Anything

Last week’s unemployment numbers mean that for the third straight year, the U.S. economy has fallen into a spring slump, adding a dismal 69,000 jobs. That number falls short of 90,000, the growth number accepted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO...
ALEC LIU
6.5.12
Music

Sounds Like Trouble! A Totally Enormous Interview With Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

We sat down with the dude in the dino-suit poised to be the next big thing in dance music.
Emerson Rosenthal
6.5.12
Features

Songs In A Room

Is confining a group's music video to one single room the key to success?
Jeff Ogiba
6.5.12
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

The Enduring Phallic Symbol of War

The RPG launcher is still the best killing machine around.
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Coal's Time Is Nigh, and Industry Insiders Know It

Coal is terrible. It's terrible for human health, for the planet's climate, for any mountain that might prefer to maintain its top. But since it's also been pretty invisible to those who rely on the power derived from burning it, coal has gotten...
Brian Merchant
6.5.12
the it's actually quite weird issue

A Hairy Situation

It turns out Sweden's tolerance extends only so far as its armpits.
Caisa Ederyd
6.5.12
the it's actually quite weird issue

Vibrators Through the Ages

Welcome to the museum that celebrates one of the most important technological breakthroughs of the past millennium: the vibrator.
Darren Wee
6.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Jill Tarter Has Just Spent 35 Years Leading the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Interview

Jill Tarter has been leading the hunt for extra-terrestrial life at SETI for the past 35 years. On May 22, she announced that she would be stepping down, leaving a search that's become more helpful that ever since the discoveries of thousands of...
Michael Byrne
6.5.12
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