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Animal Collective's Guggenheim Installation Transverse Temporal Gyrus Arrives On Your Headphones
Geologist of Animal Collective and software engineer Stephan Moore discuss how the installation transitioned to its new online hub. Plus, details on the limited-edition record release.
Abdullah Saeed
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

University of Florida Axed Its Computer Science Department (We're Not Joking)
In a mystifying budget decision, University of Florida has decided to get rid of its computer science department. The graduate and research programs have been eliminated completely and portions of the undergraduate program will be absorbed by other...
Ana Tiwathia
4.23.12
Kill the Engine

Hey, Hold My Beer
There's a saying that goes something like this: What do you usually hear just before somebody dies in the South? "Hey, hold my beer."
Michael Sieben
4.23.12
News

Filibustin' with Willie D - Servicing the Secret Service
The greatest responsibility of the Secret Service sex scandal lies with the two bum agents who disrespected the number one code of tricking: Pay up sucka!
Willie D
4.23.12
News

Filibustin' with Willie D - An Introduction
Until Willie D from the Geto Boys speaks on it, it hasn’t been spoken on.
Willie D
4.23.12
News

Syrian Slaughter Update - Week Eleven
The no-win life of the UN massacre monitor.
Henry Langston
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Is There Hope for Greentech?
Green tech, for better or worse, has always seemingly offered the promise of salvation. That's perhaps too weighty a promise, one that could very well be behind the movement’s failure to launch. In part, we’ve never fully accepted the _need_ for...
ALEC LIU
4.23.12
Film

Retro Educational Films Are Remembered In Where Things Came From
Before the internet, cheesy educational films were where British school kids learned the facts of life.
Kevin Holmes
4.23.12
Gaming

80s Arcade Game Frogger Modded To Use Real Cars
This retro classic uses real-time traffic from NYC’s 5th Avenue.
Kevin Holmes
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

A New Look at Old Data Reveals Life on Mars
By breaking 35 year old data down into a numerics, scientists have found overlooked traces of life on Mars. Sort of.
Amy Shira Teitel
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: The Death of Facts, $100 Cigarettes, Computer Sunset
All the key stories from the weekend that you need to read.
Derek Mead
4.23.12
Motherboard Blog

A Handy Pocket Guide to Foreign Translations of Rap Names
Last Friday, keen-eyed Twit-wit, Andrew Bloch, noticed something slightly askew in his copy of Malaysia's top-selling English-language periodical, The Star: namely, that America's third richest hip-hop star, 50 Cent, was only worth RM1.50 in local...
Trevor Macomber
4.23.12
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