Let's Go Alien Hunting with a Child Prodigy
12-year-old child prodigy Adora Svitak skips recess to find answers to one the most enduring questions in human history.
Internet Artist SuS BoY's Websites Will Melt Your Mind
Enter a Web 1.0 portal into the strange and nefarious world of SuS BoY's latest mind-numbing creation.
NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's Greatest Fear Is That "Nothing Will Change"
"If they want to get you, they'll get you in time."
This Is Why the Government Can Legally Collect Your Cell Phone Data
What the NSA is collecting from Verizon and other carriers is very much of its time. But the reason why authorities can seize cell phone records actually dates back to 1979.
With Old Cameras and Trippy, Lo-Fi Visuals, Jackson Casey Is Making Skate Videos Fun Again
"A lot of times things get mistaken for something I did in post-production, but really it's just a shitty camera."
The World's Biggest Flower Just Bloomed in Ohio and It Smells Like a Corpse
A very rare and very smelly Sumatran "corpse flower" just smothered Ohio in stink.
Motherboard TV: Plus Pool Is A Floating Swimming Pool That Cleans New York's Rivers
In this first episode of our new show Futurestructures, Motherboard meets with the three designers who've hatched a plan to build a high-tech Pool in the not-so-clean waters of New York's East River.