Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history.
- Spoiler alert! We learned this week that people like their movies spoiled and the world unsurprising, some new research research says. Makes sense in terms of surviving in the wild, but The Usual Suspects still holds up.
- We imagined a world in which we need to snag genetic code from the Pirate Bay and Girl Talk DNA makes flipper babies the next, next big thing.
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- Inside the dog eat code world of the Defcon hacker summit.
- A catalog of modern day riot gear tech, or a guidebook to where exactly you need to be hurling that stone?
- Speaking of: London rioters thug on DIY face recognition experimenters.
- Speaking of unpopular opinions: stamp out that smart-phone and light up a cigarette. You’ll feel better, at least until until you’ve got a fiber-optic snake down your throat carving out a chunk of lung for biopsy.
- We prepared a message, in the form of a brief history of long-term thinking, for Earth’s 50,000 year time campsule. No doubt the irradiated mutant cockroach surivors of the “the great people plague” will find it totally fucking hilarious.
- Le Tigre/MEN’s JD Samson and Ponytail’s Willy Siegel are a couple of the best people we know, so we eavesdropped on a Skype conversation between the two.
- MORIS is a cop iPhone app that can recognize your face. You ever see an anarchist with cheek implants?
- CERN learns about the dark side of the internet.
- We learned about a new paper/study thinger that opens a whole new avenue of stalking: the Facebook profiles of the 17th century.