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MBTV: Sumo Robots

Disney movies notwithstanding, the most common tale in sports isn't a happy one: The wealthy, winning teams get all the glory while the underdogs languish in obscurity. The story holds true in robotics competitions as well. When it comes to tech...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
12.14.11
Stuff

Hot Dog and The Lady Bun - All Aboard the Dating Train

Fancy a lady who's wearing pants? Point to her crotch and ask, "Is there an express train to that stop?"
Kurt Braunohler and Albertina Rizzo
12.14.11
Stuff

A Christmas Message from Art Hammer

When you're buried under an avalanche of commercials for frozen food platters, over-priced perfumes, and terrible TV programming, it's sometimes hard to remember what the spirit of Christmas is all about.
Andy Capper
12.14.11
Music

An Obligatory and Pointless Debate About Coldplay Playing on X Factor

Is it the end of guitar music? Or not?
Simon Penman, Ian Reynolds
12.14.11
Motherboard Blog

Enter the Twelve-Headed Cyber Dragon: China's Shadow Hacker Squads

A recent American intelligence "report":http://www.dni.gov/reports/20111103_report_fecie.pdf claims a dedicated corps of hacker groups have not only cornered China’s data-based theft market, but that they also have the backing – or even the direction...
Brian Anderson
12.14.11
The Moral Compass Issue

Hadephobia Is the Fear of Hades

To get an idea of what hadephobes go through, I spent some time cruising online Christian forums. Almost all of them spelled hell with a capital H.
Hannah Brooks, Illustration by Tulsi Maya
12.14.11
Music

The Last Episode of The Producers Is Here

And the star of it is Jakwob.
Robbie Party
12.14.11
Motherboard Blog

Bamboozled: How Eco-Friendly is Eco-Fashion?

As consumers brave the cold and the seething, pepper spray-happy crowds for holiday shopping this year, they’ll have more options than ever for clothing that claims to be “eco-friendly,” both in boutiques and in major chains.
Ben Richmond
12.14.11
FASHION WEEK INTERNATIONALE

Las Vegas International Lingerie Show

"Vegas is a kind of hell." This is what we're told at the beginning of our trip. Perhaps we should have listened. Fashion Week Internationale went to Las Vegas for the International Lingerie Show. It had been sold to us as one of the biggest lingerie...
VICE Staff
12.14.11
The Creators Project

Meet Jamie xx

Jamie Smith, aka Jamie xx, is a British DJ and producer best known for his work with indie band The xx. He gravitates towards hip-hop because of the genre's roots in jazz and soul, and brings out these subtleties in his sensational electronic remixes...
VICE Staff
12.14.11
News

North Korean Labor Camps

Kim Jong Il has come up with a new way to bring cold hard cash into his isolated country: export North Korean workers to slave away in the Siberian forest. VICE founder Shane Smith travels to Russia to investigate a chain of North Korean labor camps in...
Shane Smith
12.14.11
Art

Witness The Majesty Of The Big Bang

Artist Zhan Wang records an earthshaking explosion scene with high-speed cameras.
Xue Tan
12.14.11
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