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You Should Probably Start Caring About Quantum Computing Now
Since the words started entering the tech community vocabulary in the not-too-distant past, quantum computing has remained a specter. It's a change-everything technology of the future, shooting out...
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What South by Southwest Looks Like on Drones
It's what you'd expect. Or maybe it isn't. We did a few pop-up flights with the folks over at DJI Innovations shortly after the last of Thursday's storms had blown out of Austin. Looking ahead to...
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Why John McCain Got It Wrong About "Wacko Birds"
It takes very little effort to impress a dejected electorate consistently fed the wearisome rituals of political consensus. This fact was nicely illustrated during John McCain’s presidential run in...
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Nineteen-Year-Old Data Explains Why Solar Wind Is So Hot
A good spacecraft is the kind that keeps on providing researchers with valuable data year after year. Wind, the spin-stabilized spacecraft NASA launched into a halo orbit around the L1 Lagrange point...
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Slow Porn: Cindy Gallop's Quest to Blow Up Internet Sex
It didn't take long for a scruffy guy with glasses to approach me. It was a Saturday night last January, and I was at a cocktail party sitting feet away from porn stars and programmers alike. “What’s...
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Is 'Chapo' Dead?
They don't call him the Bill Gates of drug running for nothing. As long-running boss of Mexico's beleaguered Sinaloa cartel, its believed he not only effectively owned the drug pipeline stretching...
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Why Talking About Violence in Pornography Is Important
Though the availability and morality of hardcore pornography has been debated since the internet made it more widely available, it’s traditionally been those on the conservative side of the fence...
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Modern Day Prospectors Will Haul 12,000 Gallons of Cyanide from Nevada to...
Picture a gold mine, and your brain probably whips up something delightfully anachronistic—a 49er with a pickaxe maybe, or a wheeled metallic basin emerging from a mine shaft on railroad tracks,...
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Amateur Videos of the Russian Meteorite Actually Helped Science
A fireball streaking across the sky as seen from a driver's dashboard. via It’s been a little over a week since a sizable rock fell from the skies and exploded less than 15 miles above the Chelyabinsk...
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Republicans Hate Lunch, Democrats Dig Croissants, and Other Observations from...
Chick-Fil-A fans protest gay marriage with fast food. Only in America, right? Via the AP Public Policy Polling published the results of a rather amusing poll today which, rather than looking at things...
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Google's Rumored Music Streaming Service Could Give Spotify The Chills
Would you be willing to let Google take over more of your life? Google thinks so: It's rumored to be creating a subscription-based streaming service that would undoubtedly give Spotify a run for its...
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Anti-Immigration Laws Are Speeding the Rise of the Robot Workforce
A Harvest Automation nursery robot lasts at least five years, works tirelessly in hot, humid greenhouse environments, and costs a onetime sum of $30,000. Guess whose jobs the Harvest bots are going to...
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The Wild and Crazy World of AR-15 Modification
The AR-15 has become the most infamous gun in America in the last few month. The rifle, originally designed for United States troops in Vietnam, has been flying off the shelves since the Newtown and...
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Watching 'House of Cards' from Across the Digital Divide
So, I just finished Deadwood again, a most reworthy rewatching even given the supremely unjust non-conclusion. This means that it's time for a new serial drama. The problem is that I'm pretty much out...
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Iowa Is Selling One of the Oldest Government-Owned Fiber Optic Networks
Google already has a presence in Iowa, including the data center above. Might it try to scoop up a huge fiber network for cheap? Image via Google Right now, Iowa operates one of the nation’s oldest...
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There Will Be Broadband: Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into...
Local residents gather for a B4RN dig party in Lancashire last year. Photo by Marty Dews / Flickr Look outside of your window: if you see miles of farmland, chances are you have terrible internet...
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Update from Lake Vostok: Russian Scientists Discovered New Life After All
UPDATE (March 12): Oh brother. Officials now say that Bulat and his colleague Vladimir Korolev, head of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute were misinformed. When the scientists talked to the...
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Oblivion Droneday at SXSW 2013
Drones are everywhere now, nearly literally: they're not just flying over other countries but over your house. On Monday at SXSW, Motherboard is throwing a Droneday at our VICELAND space, which we'll...
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Disney and Lucasfilm Just Murdered Billions of People
The big three have made their return, and have unceremoniously booted those who took their place. Via GalaxyFM on Flickr Here we are, where no serious Star Wars fan ever thought we’d be. But at what...
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Future Sex: How Tales of Damsels in Distress Came to Dominate Video Games
This week's Future Sex is a collaborative effort, co-written by Motherboard's resident videogame expert, Colin Snyder. I'm sure we all remember the particular brand of internet rancor Anita...
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