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Why Armenia Is More Likely to Engineer Super-Children Than China
Image: Aarondn93 via Flickr Seems like everybody's talking Chinese genomics and the art of engineering genius babies these days. But the nation that's more likely to breed a generation of super-smart,...
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This Pizza Cost $750,000
It is widely believed that the first real-world bitcoin transaction took place on May 21st, 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer living in Florida, sent 10,000 bitcoin (BTC), the online-only, open...
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Scientists Have Manipulated Old Stem Cells to Produce Younger Blood
Vampires. They like drinking the blood of young victims, folklore tells us, because it helps rejuvenate their shriveling, thousand-year-old bodies. Last year a study out of Stanford University...
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The Computer Animation Primer That Magically Wiped Away the World Trade Center
This is the stuff of Memorex nightmares. Nestled between a soft focus-y torrent of metallic T-rex's, glowing corporate branding, a lone pianist playing the most bummed-out of gin joint jams, and...
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How a Quantum Satellite Network Could Produce a Secure Internet
A render of a prior quantum satellite communication experiment, which utilized the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory telescope and the Ajisai laser-ranging satellite, which was published in SPIE's...
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Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush: An Interview with Yifu Guo, Creator of the...
Yifo Guo, co-founder of ASIC builder Avalon. Photos of Guo are by the author. A month after it reached a new all-time high, the rollercoaster ride that is bitcoin continues to thrill and confound...
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Check Out This Tiger Cub Caught on a Hidden Camera
Photo: Ullas Karanth/WCS. Click here to view it larger. Have we all got our awwws out? Good, because aside from the cute factor, seeing a four- to five-month-old tiger cub caught on a camera trap is a...
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'They Should Know That': A Chat With Barrett Brown
This article originally ran on VICE Canada. Since my initial piece on Barrett Brown—the journalist and popularly mislabeled spokesperson of Anonymous who is facing a century of hard time in a federal...
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The World's First Bitcoin ATM Is in Cash-Strapped Cyprus
Yep, that's a bitcoin ATM. Via TDV's release. Charging ahead of the bitcoin start-up stampede, Jeff Berwick (Founder of Stockhouse.com and TDV Media), has announced the debut of Bitcoin ATM, with hope...
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This Driverless Robo-Taxi May Soon Be on Japan's Roads (and Sidewalks)
According to a report in Shiotsu Autotrade Japan, Hitachi Ltd. has recently unveiled an electric car that operates without a driver. Unlike Google's Driverless Car, where users speak to the machine to...
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Notes From GDC 2013: Are You Going to San Francisco?
Motherboard's resident game designer and critic Colin Snyder is currently running around the Bay Area, eating many burritos and navigating the 2013 Game Developers Conference. Look out for his...
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Philip K. Dick's 4-Dimensional Gun
"The Zap Gun" is one of Philip K. Dick’s lesser “pot-boiler” novels. It was originally serialized, so it’s shitty in the way that novels always are when it’s clear a writer is being paid by the word,...
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Scotland Triumphs Over Donald Trump's Twitter, Approves Giant Offshore Wind Farm
Image: Wikimedia Commons The future is coming, whether Donald Trump is ready for it or not. The Scottish government just formally announced that it will be building a massive experimental offshore...
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In the Future, Will We Pay a Fee to Browse Stores in Person?
Image: Wikimedia Commons It happens every day: Someone cruises into a bookstore, a Best Buy, a record shop, a Nordstrom's. He looks around, maybe browses the staff picks, maybe furtively taps out a...
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When Whales Walked
Photo: Whale ancestor skeletons (via Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, 2008) Typically, evolution is thought of as a trip out of the ocean and into a Toyota Prius. This, of course, isn't true--but it's...
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How Humans Will Respond to Immortality: An Interview with Philosopher John...
Five million dollars is a hefty grant for any academic to receive, let alone a philosopher. And yet that’s exactly what UC Riverside philosophy professor John Martin Fischer received last year for a...
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In Praise of Animated GIFs Over Boring Headshots
The author in a go-kart If the Internet is about expression and your avatar is basically you, then you understand the reason for animated GIFs. The animated GIF may have been certified gold by the...
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How I Learned to Shoot Guns and Fear Violence
My earliest memories of guns are sharp steely ones. The weight of rifle in your hands. The stinging smell of gun powder and the jolt of butt exploding into your shoulder. They're visceral memories and...
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Of Dogs, Drugs, Drones, and Cocaine Science Fairs
A drug dog. Photo: RDECOM / Flickr Yesterday, the Supreme Court had its first day of oral arguments on the legality of same-sex marriage. But you know what else the high court-sters was discussing in...
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Fracking May Lead to Earthquakes Even Decades After Drilling Begins
Image: Columbia Earth Institute The most contentious debate over hydraulic fracturing is probably the one about earthquakes. That's saying a lot, because fracking—the art of pumping a chemical...
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