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See Some Entries For DARPA's Crowdsourced Drone Building Contest

In an attempt to speed up innovation and lower the cost of rolling out new technologies, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has taken a host of new initiatives aimed at building up their network of private contractors. The secretive...
Derek Mead
10.12.11
Music

The Creators Project NY Event Schedule

Including unmissable acts from Florence + the Machine, Four Tet, a DJ set from Justice, plus tons of interactive art and film screenings.
The Creators Project Staff
10.12.11
Music

One Of Our Most Epic Installations From Coachella Comes To NYC

Jonathan Glazer and J.Spaceman’s installation A Physical Manifestation of Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space comes to DUMBO.
The Creators Project Staff
10.12.11
Art

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Andrew Schneider

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
10.12.11
Motherboard Blog

The Drones Are Sick

What happens when the largest and most powerful military force on the planet finds a computer virus in its fleet of unmanned aerial drones? Soon we may find out the answer.
Janus Rose
10.12.11
Motherboard Blog

The U.S.'s First Drone Could Drop Nukes

Recent developments (exploits? gaffs?) concerning American unmanned aerial vehicles read like something out of a bad Tom Clancy novel: Drones are "dropping Hellfire missiles on Americans abroad":http://www.npr.org/2011/09/30/140959767/american-born...
Brian Anderson
10.12.11
Music

A Fist in the Face of God meets... Antichrist

The Swedish thrash metallers will eat your cake but think sleeping amid cockroaches and piss is funny.
Dylan Hughes
10.12.11
Art

Robert Seidel's FOLDS Breathes New Life Into Ancient Sculptures

Projections re-animate decaying 19th century Greek plaster cast sculptures.
Dylan Schenker
10.12.11
videos

Top Reasons You'd Be A Fool To Miss the Imagine Science Film Festival

Science has a public relations problem, a lot of them really. Science is everywhere in our lives; we spend a whole lot of money on it (but hardly enough); research is changing our day-to-day world faster and more than any time in history, from smaller...
Michael Byrne
10.12.11
Art

MakePixelArt Lets You Make Pixel Art (Duh)

An in-browser pixel editor for budding pixel artists and time wasters alike.
Kevin Holmes
10.12.11
Design

Ma Yansong Builds A Museum In Middle Of Gobi Desert

Sure, it looks stunning, but it’ll be a bugger to get to.
Kevin Holmes
10.12.11
Motherboard Blog

The Equation Explaining Oil's Fear of Water

Everyone knows oil and water don't mix. It's a simple concept, sure, but the hydrophobic interactions between fats and water are crucial to the mechanics of microbiology. The weird thing is, the base theories of chemistry suggest that there's no reason...
Derek Mead
10.12.11
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