Life
10 Ways to Begin Doing Something
Embarking on a journey of doing a thing can be perilous, but it's easier if you know how to start.
Derek Mead
5.15.23
Tesla
A Totally Reasonable Explanation for Elon Musk Tanking Tesla’s Stock Price
As with everything, our most important economic lessons come from Bitcoin.
Derek Mead
5.1.20
Culture
Not Cool Enough or in Berlin Enough to Go to Berghain? Wipe Your Ass with It!
Someone absconded with some toilet paper from the hallowed club, and now it's on eBay for however much you want to pay for it.
Derek Mead
10.31.19
State of Surveillance
The NSA Uses Slack. Why?
The United States' top digital surveillance agency is using an off-the-shelf version of Slack. For what? They should tell us!
Derek Mead
8.15.19
climate change
Who’s Going to Tell the Royal Baby That Our Planet Is Unequivocally Dying?
Good luck, kid.
Derek Mead
5.6.19
algorithms
An AI Analyzed My Twitter Feed and Discovered I’m a Shithead
DeepSense says it can analyze tweets to see if someone is a good employee. I'm going to need to make better tweets.
Derek Mead
9.21.18
The Most Unknown
Watch the Trailer for 'The Most Unknown,' Motherboard's First Feature Documentary
We sent nine scientists across the world on a quest to explore the biggest questions in science, all to find out what drives discovery.
Derek Mead
Thobey Campion
2.22.18
Internet Insecurity
More Like Social Insecurity Number, Amirite?
BURN THE SSN.
Jason Koebler
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Derek Mead
9.7.17
WTF
Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Strangest Unsolved Mystery of the Last Century
58 years ago, the northern part of the Urals played host to one of the most fascinating unsolved mysteries in the modern age.
Derek Mead
9.5.17
the inevitable
Under Trumpcare, Being a Human Is a Preexisting Condition
We're all going to get sick or hurt and we shouldn't be punished for it.
Derek Mead
6.28.17
Motherboard Homepage
This Is How the Free Press Dies
Former Motherboard editor Ben Makuch has been pursued by the Canadian government since 2014 for doing his job.
Jason Koebler
5.3.17
Motherboard Homepage
This Is How the Free Press Dies
Former Motherboard editor Ben Makuch has been pursued by the Canadian government since 2014 for doing his job.
Jason Koebler
Derek Mead
5.3.17
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