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In 1980, the Star Wars Cast's 'Empire Hotline' Broke AT&T
In early 1980, the prospect of dialing a number and hearing a celebrity's voice on the other end—even if it was pre-recorded—was pretty novel. The '80s would go on to see the height of expensive,...
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Satellite Images Show Siberia Burning
Credit: Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC Siberia is frozen much of the year, which is why Soviet geoengineers were once obsessed with trying to permanently melt it. But when...
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Elon Musk Promises Hyperloop, the "Fifth Mode" of Transportation, Isn't...
When Elon Musk got tired of waiting for NASA to go to Mars, he said fuck it, and set out to do it himself. Now he’s doing the same thing with high-speed transportation. I’m referring of course to the...
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The Future Is Never Looking for a Parking Spot Again
Image: Flickr By 2020, there will be nearly a million "smart" parking spaces around the world, according to Navigant Research. More municipalities and corporations are adopting the technology, for a...
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Users' Fear of Losing Followers Will Turn Twitter into a Sponsored Hellscape,...
Do you ever get stage fright on Twitter? You know, where, following some fantastic tweet, you've suddenly got a bunch of new followers and nothing to say? According to a new study, you're not...
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Motorola Goes Sci-Fi With Password Protection, Rolls Out Electronic Tattoos...
Image: Flickr Taking a vitamin pill to unlock a password-protected gadget may seem more like cyberpunk-inspired sci-fi than a viable tech product, but, well, here we are. Google-owned Motorola is...
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Is Ecstasy the Key to Alleviating Autism Anxiety?
Autism resists both definitions and treatment within the medical community. But the strange historical interpretation of autistic behavior and symptoms has led to novel experimental treatments for the...
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On the Verge of Bradley Manning's Trial, Julian Assange Answers Some...
Julian Assange and his lawyer Michael Ratner joined Al Jazeera's The Stream today, to field questions from journalist pundits and members of the media organization's online social community. The...
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The Liberty Reserve Shutdown Shows Bitcoin What Not To Do
Special Agent in Charge James Hayes announces the Liberty Reserve indictment, via ICE Federal prosecutors in New York this week announced the crackdown of a $6 billion online money laundering scheme,...
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No One Said Laser Printing a Record Onto a Quesadilla Was Going to Be Easy
Music is as invisible as money these days, and by that, I mean we’re careless with it. I still bitterly mourn the death of my first MP3 player like a widower left with the debts of the deceased. But...
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Obama's Choice for FBI Chief Fought Bush over Privacy, Supported Enhanced...
Comey discusses the power balance between the White House and the Department of Justice. President Obama is set to nominate James Comey, a former Bush official who famously resisted the...
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With Old Cameras and Trippy, Lo-Fi visuals, Jackson Casey Is Making Skate...
Jackson Casey. Photo: Patrick Driscoll, used with permission Jackson Casey is a 23-year-old filmmaker and skateboarder from Michigan who's behind some of the best independent skate videos coming out...
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Sharks Are More Valuable as Tourist Attractions Than Soup
Image via Macorig Paolo/Flickr More sharks are caught yearly than is sustainable, but efforts to mitigate those losses have been met with opposition for decades. That tide is slowly changing, which a...
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Bots, Brains, Biohacking, and Bitcoin: Join Motherboard at Brooklyn's...
If New York's annual World Science Festival is, say, a giant multi-disciplinary public lab, Innovation Square is its underground home-built supercollider. For eight hours this Saturday, starting at...
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How the FBI's Favorite Surveillance Bill Will Affect You
In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) into law. The goal: expand the government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance on American...
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Is a 'Starbucks of Pot' What Corporate Cannabis Really Needs?
Sticky icky, coming to a corner store near you? (via) Jamen Shively is high on cannabis legalization. For someone who only lit up for the first time ever last year, Shively, a former Microsoft...
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Behold the Rise of Dystopian 'Cli-Fi'
Image: Flickr Though the age of the literary fiction is supposedly waning, the age of the literary genre is at its apex. In addition to staples like thrillers and sci-fi, bookstores are littered with...
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The FBI Has to Return Kim Dotcom's Hard Drives
Footage from the January 2012 raid looks like an action movie. It's been nearly a year and half since Kim Dotcom's New Zealand mansion was raided, during which the filesharing mogul has been...
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The British Badger War Begins
Photo via Wikipedia To the dismay of many, including Queen guitarist Brian May, the great British badger cull begins tomorrow. Marksmen will take to the English countryside in Gloucestershire and...
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Watch an Asteroid's Flyby of Earth, Live and from Space
Rocks zoom by the Earth pretty frequently. Sometimes they come so close they fall through the atmosphere, like the meteor that streaked through the skies of Chelyabinsk, Russia, this past February....
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