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Google's Internet of Things Now Includes Your Body
Image via Google Google announced its latest moonshot project yesterday, and like most of the ideas cooking in the secretive GoogleX lab, it's crazy futuristic. The company is developing smart contact...
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The March Towards Mammoth-Cloning Continues
Woolly mammoth meat. Image: Institute of Applied Ecology, Siberia The first man to successfully clone a dog was also one of the biggest perpetrators of academic fraud this decade. Now, it seems he's...
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At Home With Glenn Greenwald
An interview with Glenn Greenwald Before the Snowden revelations, the journalist Glenn Greenwald lived in Brazil with his husband, David Miranda, because American law didn't recognize their marriage....
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A Massage Parlour Owner Explains How Bitcoin Will Help Attract Clients
Now accepting bitcoin. Image: Sensuous London Much has been made of Bitcoin's emergence into the mainstream, particularly with its recent acceptance by the online retailer Overstock. But let's not...
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Ohio's Botched Experimental Execution, in One GIF
Ever feel like you can't keep up with all the doom and gloom echoing around the internet? Motherboard's here to help. With GIFs. Welcome to THIS WEEK IN HELL, a feature that brings you hard-hitting...
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Obama’s Linguistic Loopholes
President Obama managed to deliver 5,354 words on reforming NSA surveillance this afternoon without actually saying anything at all. In his first major speech responding to the spy scandal, the...
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The Creepiest Vision for Augmented Reality Yet
The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal calls it "probably the most cringe-inducing augmented reality concept video I've seen yet." And for good reason: Infinity AR's fantasy world is Glassholism taken to its...
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Hundreds of Amazonian Frog Species Are Hiding in Plain Sight
This is the Hypsiboas tetete, one of four new species described in Ecuador. All photos: Santiago Ron/AmphibiaWebEcuador The Amazon rainforest, particularly in Ecuador, is suspected to have the greatest...
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Should Zoos Make Room for More Endangered Species?
Some critically endangered Przewalski's horses (and captive-bred foals) at the National Zoo. Photo: Dolores Reed/Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute As biodiversity declines worldwide, and as...
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A Sky Full of Jellyfish Drones Seems Like a Pretty Good Nightmare
Why, you ask, does the world need a flying jellyfish drone? In the immediate, its creators, a pair of applied mathematicians at New York University, suggest that the tiny self-stabilizing flying...
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People Worldwide Are Less Inclined To Expatriate
Immigrants via Wikimedia Commons In a time when goods and jobs seem to move across borders so very seamlessly, it’s sometimes jarring to remember that people don’t, especially when it comes to moving...
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Bill Murray Is Just Fine with You Smoking Weed
Charlie Llewellin/Creative Commons Bill Murray, who some would consider one of the greatest living actors, did a Reddit AMA on Friday. His discussion ranged from what he thinks of the current Saturday...
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Google Should Have Left Search Spam Alone
A shedding blade in action/Wikipedia In case you missed it, Demand Media won. A few years ago, the floods of how-to and pseudo-reference content being churned out as fast as humanly possible by...
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Spanish Activists Use Fake Aaron Brown Persona to Digitally Protest Corruption
Last fall, I profiled Curtis Wallen, an artist who dove into the Deep Web to create the fake persona Aaron Brown. Using Tor, Bitcoin, and various other methods to dodge surveillance, Wallen's Brown...
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The Case of the Opportunity Rover and the Mysteriously Appearing Martian Rock
The appearance of Pinnacle Island/NASA via Discovery After nearly a decade on Mars, NASA’s Opportunity rover is still finding things that surprise us. The latest is a mysterious rock that appeared just...
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Breaking Math: The Time Indiana Nearly Passed a Law Declaring "Pi = 3"
Liverpool One Wheel/Wikipedia The number pi is the ratio between a circle’s diameter and its circumference. Typically ballparked at 3.14, it remains the same for a circle ringing the universe and a...
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Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service with His Own Album
This time last year, Kim Dotcom launched the Mega file-hosting service surrounded by dancers. Image via Flickr/Anthony De Rosa“Entrepreneur - Innovator - Gamer - Fighter - Father - Husband” is how Kim...
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It's Time for Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Rosetta to Wake Up
The ESA's live stream will have you on the edge of your seat as we wait for Rosetta's signal. Via Livestream/ESAUpdate 1/20/2014 Rosetta is awake! Phew. The ESA reports they received the signal at...
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How Neutrinos Can Help Track Nuclear Bombs
In 2001, Canada's Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detected all three types of neutrinos coming from the Sun, helping solve the solar neutrino problem. Image via Roy Kaltschmidt/Lawrence Berkeley National...
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The Supreme Court's Two Warrantless Phone Search Cases Are Already Outdated
The courtroom of the US Supreme Court, via Ken Yu/FlickrThe United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases that revolve around the controversial practice of police searching through...
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