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This Beautiful Map Shows Where Earth's Forests Have Disappeared
Forests are disappearing globally, a fact that unfortunately shouldn't surprise you. But it's also not a particularly helpful statistic. If you want to combat the decline, you have to know why forests...
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The Debate Over Dogs' Origins Just Got Even More Complicated
Photo via Flickr/CC. Attempting to uncover the history of dog domestication is a complicated task. It oftens seems as though the more information we acquire, the less clear the picture becomes. A few...
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Hackers Are Now Providing Customer Service Support to Help Victims Pay Ransoms
Photo via Flickr It's a good time to be in the ransomware game, a type of malware scam that basically kidnaps your data and then sells it back to you. The cyber-criminals behind these extortion...
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Guaranteeing a Minimum Income Has Been a Utopian Dream for Centuries
Image: Flickr Switzerland made headlines with its proposal to dole out $2,800 per month to every citizen in the nation, thus creating a basic minimum income—and ensuring that no Swiss ever had to live...
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Can Wikipedia Catch Sock Puppets Without Violating User Privacy?
via Nadya Peek/Flickr It’s a tension as old as Wikipedia itself: the “anyone problem.” Most of the time it works out just fine—anyone can write and edit, and by and large that works out pretty well for...
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Internet Explorer Isn't the Only One With an Anime-Girl Mascot
The Internet Explorer ad featuring Inori Aizawa, via Youtube. In a recent ad, Microsoft portrayed their Internet Explorer browser as a cute, sometimes clumsy, but generally kick-ass anime heroine,...
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Google Books' Victory Widens the Scope of Fair Use
Via Google just scored a big victory in the eight-year legal saga over its ambitious project to digitize and catalog every book ever printed. Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York sided...
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Will Giving a Child $4,000 Make Them Smarter?
Economist Greg Duncan is running the study. Photo via Flickr/UC Irvine We now know that poverty not only reduces cognitive bandwidth and encourages short-term thinking; it's also bad for brain...
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Wall Street Uses Snapchat, Too
Businesspeople have the need to send selfies, too. Via Jessica B/Flickr Is instant messaging too much to handle for investment bankers? The world’s largest banks are beginning to think so, and the...
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Darknet: Touring the Hidden Internet's Illegal Markets
If they've done anything, the leaks of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have proven that we are indeed living in a global surveillance state. Not only has massive data...
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You Can Barely See Earth in This Photo of Saturn, But It's There, and It's...
Our long history of taking beautiful images of Earth actually predates the space age, thanks to high-flying missiles fitted with cameras. But the latest image of Earth from space, captured on NASA’s...
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Germany Condemns "Illegal Killings," Halts All Purchases of American Drones
Image: Wikimedia Germany may be leading the world in the rejection of drone policing, as a draft of a new coalition agreement revealed the government will likely cease purchasing new drones for the...
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To Find the Origin of Tall Tales, Treat Them as Living Organisms
Photo via Flickr/kosmoseleevike A British researcher has used techniques associated with evolution to trace not the origins of a species, but the roots of a folktale: Little Red Riding Hood. You’re...
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The In-Vitro Cookbook Will Help Us Prepare the Future Meat We Don't Have Yet
The first review of lab-grown meat from August. They went about how you'd expect. Front page image via David Parry / PA Wire While reviews for the first lab-grown hamburger weren’t awful (“It is close...
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The Man Who Never Has to Eat Again Will Take Your Questions Now
Image: Soylent Rob Rhinehart invented a macro-nutritious food replacement called Soylent—both are the subject of Motherboard's latest documentary, Life After Food. Our investigation into the post-food...
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I've Been Listening to This Cricket Orchestra for an Hour and It's Tripping...
When I was younger and first getting into computers—which meant sneaking away from my mom at the grocery store to go read magazines—I was obsessed with the idea of becoming a "power user." You know, a...
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Get Ready to Pay for Online Content in Bitcoins and Tweets
Via The dream that micropayments can monetize online content and subsequently save the journalism industry just won't die. In the latest, bitcoin's boom is resuscitating the theory that charging tiny...
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If Drones Are the Future of Search and Rescue, Why Aren't They In the...
Helicopters, not drones, are being used for search and rescue efforts in the Philippines. Photo: U.S. 7th Fleet Drones are the future of search and rescue efforts, so why the heck aren’t they flying...
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Why Drought Might Not Wreck the Amazon
The rainforest in Madre de Dios, Peru, via Geoff Gallice/Flickr As our climate continues to change, the fate of the Amazon rainforest remains uncertain. Some studies have shown that droughts could turn...
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Some of the Fraudulent Obamacare Sites Work Better Than the Real Thing
The launch of the Affordable Care Act, instead of killing jobs, gave birth to a brand-new and potentially lucrative industry: fake insurance websites. According to the Washington Examiner more than 700...
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