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The U.S. Wants Your Help To Build an Interstellar Spaceship

Star Trek is everyone’s favorite Utopian space opera — the premise hinges on the fact that humanity has become so peaceful and enlightened that it dedicates its time and resources sending the likes of William Shatner and Patrick Stewart to explore the...
Brian Merchant
5.4.11
Motherboard Blog

Al-Qaeda Was a Conspiracy Theory: A Brief History of the Osama Mythos

The conspiracy theories surrounding September 11 are annoying, not least because they distract from bigger, more disturbing _facts_, like, say, the failure of national intelligence agencies to prevent the events of that morning. Or the convenient...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.4.11
Film

The Chase Takes Browser-Based Films To The Next Level

The idea of watching a film on one screen is so passé.
Dylan Schenker
5.4.11
Ladj Ly

"Terres Arbitraires" Deconstructs The Image Of The French Suburbs

Nicolas Clauss’ audiovisual installation dispels sterotypes and gives a voice to suburban youth.
Morgan Poyau
5.4.11
Design

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Robert Dabi

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
5.4.11
Stuff

Jamie Taete's Internet Landfill

Hey dad, you know what's going to be more traumatic for your kids than hearing a baseball coach call you a homophobic name?
Jamie Lee Taete
5.4.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros 5/4/11: On Darth Vader and Osama bin Laden

_Just in time for Osama-is-dead celebrations (and _Star Wars_ day): the sci-fi trilogy about the struggle between good and evil is getting the high-def Blueray treatment. May the (coalition) force be with you._ h3. ONE: Keyboard cat redux ("YouTube...
Ones Zeros
5.4.11
Film

Carbonite Yourself Like Han Solo With This Kinect Hack

If you’ve ever wanted to 3D print yourself frozen in carbonite, then you’re in luck. That dream may soon come true.
Kevin Holmes
5.4.11
videos

Motherboard TV: Richard Garriott

The video game pioneer Richard Garriott resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that would be the fantasy dwelling for any grown-up kid.
Sean Yeaton
5.4.11
Music

Creativity Bytes: A Brief Guide To Noise Music

Read this and sound like an expert. Well, sort of.
Kevin Holmes
5.4.11
Vice Blog

Canadonked It

The strangeness in election night didn't just end there, it is a werewolf with a lampshade on still stumbling around your living room.
KATIE HEINDL
5.4.11
Motherboard Blog

Kissing Technology

The days of touching your tongue to someone else's tongue aren't over _just yet_. But students at Japan's Kajimoto Research Laboratory have them in their sights. They've created a device that lets people french kiss through the Internet: use your...
Videodrome
5.4.11
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