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Is Bitcoin a Government Conspiracy?
Bitcoin continues surging towards heady heights, closing in on $1000. Following growing demand in China and US validation after a convivial Senate hearing, the total transaction volume of the...
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The Grand Mystery of How Your Brain Makes a Really Simple Choice
Image via fiverlocker/Flickr Most likely, you take decision making somewhat for granted. Maybe not big, life-changing decision making, the sort where you make columns of pros and cons and sit down with...
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Brits Keep Losing Their Work Phones While Out Drinking
Photo via Flickr/Lars Lundqvist If you’ve ever woken up feeling a bit hazy about the details of the night before, and then gone to reach for your smartphone only to find it missing, you’re far from the...
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Meet the Man Who Turned "Blade Runner" Into a Half-Hour Watercolor Hallucination
No doubt, Blade Runner is one of the most hypnotic, dreamlike big budget sci-fi films put to tape. So much so that it's not particularly difficult to conceive of the story as a blurring reel of...
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Introducing the Motherboard-MuckRock Drone Census
Image via Flickr/CC. If you work in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems office, 2015 is coming up fast. Probably too fast. Under legislation passed by Congress last year,...
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Why We're Willing to Host Thanksgiving Dinner
Cooking for family is better when you know they'll do it next time. Via Jake Fowler/Flickr As we head into the United States' biggest food day of the year, you might find yourself wondering what's so...
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The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack
body {background: black;} div {text-align: left; font-size: 100%;} Gif by Dan Stuckey Right up until 9:14 PM on November 22nd, 1987, what appeared on Chicago's television sets was somewhat normal:...
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To Repair a Shattered Face, Print a New One
3D-printed titanium implants will be used to reconstruct a man's face. Image via Adrian Sugar/CARTIS 3D printing has been around long enough now that it takes a lot for new applications to impress....
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The Feds Have No Idea Who's Flying Drones
AR.Parrot consumer drone, via Flickr/CC. It bears repeating: The federal government has only a vague sense of which government entities are flying unmanned aerial vehicles, particularly at the state...
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How Stories Went Viral in Antebellum America
General Ambrose Burnside reading woodpulp Reddit newspaper, via Wikimedia Commons The meme of virality is so tightly tied to the present moment, there are whole listicles online that wax nostalgic for...
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Google's Top Execs Are Saying the Opposite Things About Internet Privacy
Photo of Vint Cerf via Wikimedia Commons Last week, Google’s chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf and its executive chairman Eric Schmidt each publicly discussed internet privacy. Cerf, one of the chief...
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A Computer Is Learning Common Sense By Trawling Pictures on the Internet
Screenshots via They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so perhaps it's no surprise that visual learning is the next big thing for artificial intelligence. There are billions of images and videos...
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Hydrogen Cars Are Popular Again, Even If Hydrogen Filling Stations Aren't
Hyundai's fuel cell Tuscon SUV may end up being the most popular fuel cell car on the roads—relatively speaking, that is. Via Hyundai Can anything beat oil? That's the question facing car makers, who...
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Natural Wonders Make Us Believe in Ghosts, Demons, and God
Does this picture make you believe in demons? Photo: NPS No wonder some people say the Grand Canyon is haunted: Seeing majestic waterfalls, canyons, and other awe-inspiring natural sights at least...
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Saturn Photos Don't Get Better Than This
Saturn is often a source of spectacular space images, but this one takes the cake. Captured by the Cassini spacecraft currently checking out the ringed planet, the photo shows the moon Epithemeus at...
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What Our Dead Earth Will Look Like from Space
Image: Flickr Earth isn't long for this universe, cosmologically speaking. According to some of the most recent estimates, life here on the blue marble probably has some 1.75 billion years left to go...
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Behold the Hidden Physics of Drums in Gorgeous Slow Motion
The thing about the Slowest Drum Solo Ever is that it's not slow at all. Far from it. Ali Siadat, the skinsman for Vancouver's Mother Mother seen here rolling off mid- and up-tempo beats and fills, is...
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Now Accepting Bitcoin: Everything Ever
Photo via Twitter/@ClubAlpaca Here are some things you can now do with bitcoin that you couldn't a few weeks ago: Put yourself through college; buy a $5 foot-long (or I should say 0.04 BTC foot-long)...
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What’s in a Drone?
A long-endurance Scan Eagle drone launches from USS Comstock, via US Navy. The Drone Census 2013-2014 is a joint initiative between Motherboard and the public records sleuths at MuckRock. We’re...
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Conservation Works, When We Actually Try
Things aren't looking good for the okapi right now. Image via Flickr/Derek Keats There’s positives and negatives in the most recent update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red...
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