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China Hopes It Can Clear Its Air by Replacing Coal with Something Worse
Operators check gas detectors at a Shell shale gas facility in Changbei, China. Via Shell/Flickr China's air pollution has gotten so bad that it's now a drag on the country's otherwise robust economy....
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Scientists Are Convinced Mind Transfer Is the Key to Immortality
Screenshot from Battlestar Gallactica intro, via YouTube Call it mind transfer, uploading, brain backup, whatever—the idea of copying the human brain to a computer so it can live on without the body...
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Civic Hackers Will Face Off to Code a Better Vermont
Team Datamorphosis at work, image courtesy of HackVT Hacking for civic good almost implies a kind of either/or ethics for hacking. In other words, one either openly codes for the greater good, or falls...
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Syntax for Island Birds Is for the Birds
Photo of Canary Island chaffinch, via juan_e/Flickr Apparently regional accents and grammar's on-going breakdown in tweets isn’t such a uniquely human phenomenon. The songs of chaffinches, a fairly...
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What's Cooler Than a Billion Dollars? A Billion Friends
Via Facebook Facebook's out with a new data visualization that maps all the Facebook friend connections in the world, and naturally, Mark Zuckerberg has the image set as the cover photo on his profile....
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The Plan to Redirect Asteroids With Lasers and a Mothership
Dr. Richard Fork with the plan to save the world via UAH Asteroids, man. Turns out, there’s a ton of them near the Earth and eventually one’s going to swing right into us. In fact, they swing into...
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Gaze Into the Faces of All 1.2 Billion Facebook Users
via The Faces of Facebook There they are, right there in a single screen capture. It's burning me eyes, and making me dizzy. Here's the thing. As much as I can't technology and can't socially network...
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Nissan's Autonomous Car Is Road Legal in Japan
People driving around without their hands on the wheel is, unfortunately, nothing new. But now that person driving next to you while typing on a laptop might actually be legal—at least in Japan....
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This Electric Motorcycle Hauls Ass
With our jammed schedules and internet-addled attention spans in mind, Motherboard presents The Motherboard Minute, videos that we promise will make you smarter in just 60 seconds. At 140 miles an...
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The Lawsuit Against Google for Email Scanning Will Go Forward
Google's all about making sure the right ads get to the right person, and will go to great lengths, including scanning your email to do it. That's why ads for dog food pop up alongside your Gmails...
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The Best Excuses NSA Employees Had for Spying on Their Love Interests
Photo via David Jones/Flickr Arguably the creepiest revelation yet about the National Security Agency's pervasive spying activities—and the bar is pretty high here—is the one about NSA staffers using...
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Do We Really Want Cops With Body Cameras Filming Everything They See?
Axon video of a domestic incident from police point of view, via YouTube Police departments across America are eagerly fitting their officers with surveillance cameras that record the public from a...
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The Grimmest 21st Century Predictions from the Most Important Climate Report...
Image via Fotopedia "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia." With those words—unusually frank...
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Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown with a Phone-Powered Crowdmap
A screenshot of the Abena map Since Wednesday afternoon, Sudan's internet has been sporadically shut off amid a fifth day of protests against President Omar al Bashir’s regime. Despite the attempt to...
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Writing a Constitution? You Should Probably Check Out the Constitute Project
Image via Wikipedia. A constitution is the founding document of a country, enshrining those values and principles most important to a government and its citizens at a particular moment in time. In the...
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Who Wants to Fish in Fukushima?
Image via Wikimedia Let's say you were to conduct an entirely informal poll to a crowd of people, wherein the question featured was "At which location would you rather fish: Off the coast of Fukushima,...
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When People Saw Something and Said Something, They Said Inane and Racist Things
Screenshot of Suspicious Activity Reports, via The ACLU recently got its hands on a report listing hundreds of "suspicious activities" called in by concerned citizens that took the nationwide...
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See 13 Years Into the Future, to the Completion of Gaudí's Basilica
Building a cathedral has always been a long-term commitment. Construction for Cologne Cathedral started in 1248 and wasn’t completed until 1880. Granted, construction took a break after 225 years, but...
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Every Google Doodle in One GIF
GIF by the author To celebrate the search giant's birthday, I set out to put every single Google doodle ever created into one, long-play animated GIF. I made Google a doodle and a GIF last year, but...
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New Zealand Could Use Drones to Hunt Possums
Screengrab: One News Farmers and researchers in New Zealand are turning to drones to help them wage war against one of agriculture’s biggest pests: possums. Possums are estimated to occupy roughly 10...
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