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Connectivity Is Key: Why a New Indian Tiger Reserve Is So Valuable
A male tiger reportedly in the Bandipur reserve, via vksrikanth on Flickr That adorable tiger cub we saw yesterday was a potential harbinger of good news: The tiger population in India's Bhanda Tiger...
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The FBI Is Coming for Your Gchats
Well, this stinks. Just a few weeks after Congress enraged privacy advocates by extending the FISA Amendments Act, a Bush-era warrantless wiretapping program, federal law enforcement agencies are...
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Not Just Another Wacky Rubik's Cube Video
I get it: For years, folks have been doing all sorts of crazy-amazing Rubik's cube solves. So it's not like this sort of thing hasn't ever been done before. And yet it's the first-person perspective...
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How Deep Sea Mud Found off a Tiny Japanese Island May Change the Gadget Economy
Tiny Minami-Torishima Island, which is key to Japan finding rare earth metals within its own waters. Via Wikipedia Inside of all the world's gadgets–all of our technology in general, really–is a...
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Estonia Just Showed Us the Maniac Future of American Idol
This insane video of an Estonian punk band performing on national TV went viral today, and, obviously. The band is Winny Puhh, or 'Winnie the Pooh' in Estonian, and they sound kind of like Overkill...
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Hackers Just Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on the Internet But It'll Be Okay
There's a war going on right now, and it's getting messy. A dispute between Spamhouse, a spam policing service, and Cyberbunker, a group that's hosting spam, has escalated from finger-pointing to...
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Hauling In Snow to a Save the Winter Olympics Is Becoming a Regular Thing
Image: Geograph Before the 2010 Olympic Games, Vancouver famously had to ship in snow from the Rockies because the local slopes were too bare. Since then, however, humanity has fixed global warming...
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How Leo Villareal Turned San Francisco's Bay Bridge Into the World's Largest...
On the March 5, 2013 San Francisco’s Bay Bridge lit up with 25,000 LED lights, courtesy of Leo Villareal’s installation The Bay Lights. The huge light sculpture will be illuminating the bridge for the...
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Why Don't We Calculate Health Care Costs into the Price of Coal Power?
The Cholla coal-fired plant in Arizona, via Alan Stark on Flickr Coal's proponents say it's cheap, reliable, and provides lots of jobs in areas that don't have a whole lot of other options. Of course,...
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In Response to Robo-Takedown Queries, YouTube Replies with More Bots
A screenshot from "P.S. Gay Car," which was taken down by YouTube for suspected bot traffic. Last December, Google removed a video from YouTube because it suspected the video's view counts were...
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Greenpeace Made an 8-Bit Game Called 'Shark Vs. Mermaid Death Squad'
Greenpeace is all about pulling attention-grabbing stunts in the name of public awareness/shaming a corporation or government into not destroying the planet. Traditionally, this has involved doing...
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The Six Best Apple Parody Videos
Sometimes Apple makes it too easy. The commercials with the stark white background, voice of God narrator and sometimes unspectacular product demos. (Sometimes they're spectacular, too, but that's...
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Notes from GDC: Kentucky Route Zero and the Theatre of Games
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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Oklahoma Just Fired Up the First 'Cowboy Wind Farm'
Image: Oklahoma State University If you're heading south through Oklahoma on the 177, keep an eye your passenger side window out as you pass through Stillwater. If it's a clear day, you'll catch a...
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3D-Gun Printer Cody R. Wilson Is Doing an AMA on Reddit Right Now
When he isn't working toward a law degree at the University of Texas, you can find Wilson using 3D printers to manufacture gun parts. It's a move that's drawing the ire of a growing crowd of anti-gun...
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A DDoS Attack Just Took Down AmEx.com
Screenshot via Akamai's real-time web monitor. For at least the past hour, hackers have been hammering the back end of American Express's website with a DDoS attack, and insiders say it's potentially...
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Journalists Are Looking to Drones as the Future of Reporting
A six-motor drone used in the Missouri Drone Journalism Program (MDJP). Image by Robert Partyka / MDJP A lot of journalists have been critical of our reliance on and acceptance of drones—rightly so,...
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Technology Shouldn't Be Used To Enable Bad Drivers
Confoundingly enough, the sort of bike-related road rage you hear most about is not that sort induced by the constant threat of obliteration in an endless number of ways that cyclists face every time...
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The World Needs More Smog-Gobbling Buildings
We've seen some pretty sick smog situations around the world this year. Beijing saw its pollution problem spike to record levels and spent weeks blanketed in a poisonous brown cloud. Meanwhile, some...
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This Large Bird Was Given a Metal Pegleg, Is Now Some Kind of Cyborg
Rather cool story from our neighbors in Canada: a sandhill crane chilling on a golf course was struck by a golf ball, and one of its long, spindly legs wasn't able to be repaired. Now, unlike the...
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