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Sheppard's Video Game Pie - Mass Effect 3

'Mass Effect 3' is pretty good. By that I mean 'Mass Effect 3' is astonishingly excellent, except for one bit that's controversial and unsatisfying for many.
Stephen Lea Sheppard
4.3.12
Music

Brainfeeder's 3D Animator Beeple Debuts His New Audiovisual Masterpiece

Plus Q&A about his work with Flying Lotus, his thesis of audiovisual correspondence, and his hundreds of free Creative Commons video clips.
Abdullah Saeed
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The First Cell Phone Call Almost Got Bloody

On April 3, 1973, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper was perched on a New York City street corner on his way to a press conference, when he pulled out an enormous prototype phone in front of a few reporters and placed the first ever cell phone call, to...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.3.12
Design

MIT's "Smart Sand" Could Potentially Replicate Any Object

A new form of robotic sand could clone any shape, duplicating tools and broken parts.
Kevin Holmes
4.3.12
Film

Hitchcock's Rear Window Edited Into A Panoramic Installation

Jeff Desom chopped up the cult classic to show the entire backyard as one take.
Kevin Holmes
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Subvert Advertising with 8-Bit Graffiti

The "Internet artists":http://fffff.at/open-internet-3/, "mixtape geniuses":http://fffff.at/tag/mixtape/, and "high-tech graffiti enthusiasts":http://fffff.at/tag/graffiti/ at F.A.T. Lab have made their name recontextualizing the spaces we take for...
Derek Mead
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Robots Defeat Fire and Jungle, Groupon Fails, 90s Facebook

The robots are here to save us now: A new Navy training ground has "tracked robots fighting fires and surviving jungles":http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/navy-robot-gym/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru. If...
Derek Mead
4.3.12
Features

This Guy Is A Better Dancer Than You

Keith Apicary dances like a wacko and lands a gig as a dancer for Kimberly Cole's new video
Josh Schneider
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

What Happens When You Delete Your Street from Google Maps?

It's true, guys: We're living in the Golden Age of crowd-sourcing our information. With the recent announcement that the age-old cornerstone of academic fact-finding, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will "soon be out of print":http://www.reuters.com...
Lara Heintz
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Energy Real Talk: Our Titanic Hubris Is Not Exactly Renewable

As a species, we’ve done alright. Technologically speaking, we’ve achieved so much in the last couple of centuries. We’ve flown to the moon, invented the Internet, I mean, we’ve even created invisibility cloaks and cloned shit. But there is one part of...
ALEC LIU
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The Ecstasy of Fetishization: An Interview with Guy Maddin

If you listened carefully while the Academy Award for Best Picture went to _The Artist,_ you could hear thousands of film geeks across the world whisper, “Bullshit.” Making a silent movie? Pssh. Guy Maddin’s been doing that kind of thing for years. And...
Abraham Riesman
4.3.12
News

These Argentinian Guys Fucking Hate Us

They're burning Union Jacks and effigies of Prince William.
Henry Langston
4.3.12
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