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Reduce, Reuse, Relaunch: The Most Exciting Plans to Recycle Rockets
Over the past few months, there has been a flurry of announcements from private spacecraft companies about their plans for reusable spacecraft.
Def Con, Day Two: Def Con Is for Winners
The premiere hacking conference is full of games, from Nerf sniping to "Pimp My Rascal" to straight-up espionage.
The End of Anonymity and the Quest for Better Gadgets
Many companies are working on facial recognition tech for law enforcement and DMVs, but perhaps the most progress is being done by tech giants for consumer products.
The Red Bull School Is Perfect for All-Nighters
And by “school,” I mean “The Real World" set in a "Jurassic Park" bunker for music nerds with a fridge full of Red Bull in every room.
Things I Saw and Ate at the Frieze Art Fair
The suckling pig roasting on a spit in the sculpture park outside the fair next to a circle of hip high rubber tongue sculptures was, as it turns out, not just for show.
Take Your Roomba on a Date to the Robot Film Festival
The second annual "Robot Film Festival":http://robotfilmfestival.com/ is tomorrow in New York! Founded by friend of Motherboard and social roboticist "Heather Knight":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/7/social-roboticist-heather-knight-wants-you-to...
Katie Paterson Brings You the Universe
Scottish artist Katie Paterson's "Lightbulb to Simulate Moonlight," which was on view at the recent Frieze New York art fair, is a phone number: you're meant to dial it and hear the sounds coming from an underwater microphone in a glacial lagoon in...
Never Forget the Space Monkeys That Made It All Possible
Humans have had their sights set on visiting the stars for millennia, but we weren’t the first Earthlings to leave the confines of our planet. Before we grew the cojones to actually strap ourselves to our massive space-bound rockets, we enlisted some...
American Kisses Spacecraft Monogamy Goodbye
In April 2010, President Obama said, "nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space, than I am." He called for more robotic exploration, extending the life of the ISS, and bringing in private contractors to create the...
The Science of Facebook Likes, the Viral Web, and Charlie Sheen: a Q+A With Yury Lifshits
A few weeks ago, "Yury Lifshits":http://yury.name/, a young scientist at the Web-obsessed data den "Yahoo! Labs":http://labs.yahoo.com/, quietly published the "Like Log Study":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/4/7/what-you-like-isn-t-what-you-re-like-the...
Data Science is Really Cool
If you are not convinced of this, then you clearly have not seen Deb Roy’s recent TED talk about collecting 200 gigabytes of sound and video of his toddler "learning how to use words":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/9/this-guy-recorded-his-child...