Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history.
- Coming soon to a The New York Times Style section near you: selling experiences online.
- President Obama, perhaps understanding something, if only briefly, about the people that helped elect him, killed the Keystone XL pipeline. Deal-with-it-dog all over fucking Rick Perry, whose state, Texas, loses.
- We learned about Chime.in, a website (that does not appear to be a scam) that wants to pay you to social network.
- We nearly got hit by an asteroid that had zero chance of hitting us. (Just look what you can do with words!)
- Our pals at Vice explained algorithmic randomness.
- Oh, OH, OH. Here’s this other little thing that happened: Motherboard long-awaited Thorium documentary was finally birthed onto the internet’s wholly unsanitary delivery room floor. (That’s how birthings work, isn’t it?)