VICE may be over, but CYBER is still here at the end of it all. Matthew Gault, Emily Lipstein, Anna Merlan, Tim Marchman and Mack Lamoureux are here to eulogize the company and explain what the fuck just happened. Thanks for listening over the years. And don’t worry—we’re not logging off for good. Matthew and Emily will be back sometime soon with a new podcast project. Stay tuned. Context: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/vice-media-layoffs.html Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Theme parks and roller coasters can be a lot of fun, but what happens when fans take that love to the next level? In this clip from a recent episode of CYBER on Twitch, hosts Matthew Gault and Emily Lipstein discuss some steamy drama happening in the roller coaster fan community with the help of special guest Claire Shaffer. Watch us live Fridays 11am ET at twitch.tv/vice Listen to the podcast at https://play.acast.com/s/cyber Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@motherboardvice Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Motherboard reporter Chloe Xiang created an AI clone of herself. Here's how. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Motherboard is live, talking with journalist Kelsey Atherton about the use of AI and robotic weapons. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Motherboard is live, talking about nuclear weapons with the Arms Control Wonk, Jeffrey Lewis. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

An electric vehicle is no good if you can't charge it. For ChargerHelp! co-founders Kameale Terry and Evette Ellis, the problem of broken EV charging stations presents a new business opportunity. Contracting with utilities and business, ChargerHelp! trains and deploys technicians to quickly diagnose and repair problems with charging stations. Terry and Ellis spoke to Motherboard about why broken charging stations so often stay broken, and how to build a well-paid team to fix them.  Supported by Upwork. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this live recording of the CYBER podcast, Motherboard's Matthew Gault discusses author Adrian Hon's new book "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All." Get the book here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/adrian-hon/youve-been-played/9781541600171/ Subscribe to CYBER: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this live recording of the CYBER podcast, Motherboard's Matthew Gault and Jason Koebler discuss this breaking story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34qz8/chess-grandmaster-maxim-dlugy-admitted-to-cheating-on-chesscom-emails-show Dlugy, who is one of Hans Niemann's coaches and was recently namedropped by Magnus Carlsen, cheated in his own tournaments in 2017 and 2020, according to emails he exchanged with Chess.com. Subscribe to CYBER: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this live recording of the CYBER podcast, Motherboard's Matthew Gault and Joseph Cox discuss this breaking story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity,” one cybersecurity expert said. Subscribe to CYBER: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Katie Moussouris is an entrepreneurial hacker who helped the U.S. Department of Defense launch "Hack the Pentagon." Now the founder and CEO of Luta Security, she also started the Pay Equity Now Foundation to fight for fair pay. Speaking to Motherboard from the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, Moussouris talks about suing Microsoft, searching for VC as a woman founder, and how to program a Commodore 64. Supported by Upwork. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Davida Herzl is an entrepreneur who innovated a new way to measure air pollution at hyperlocal levels — she put the monitoring systems on cars. Now Aclima’s technology is deployed in cities around the world and is changing our understanding of how pollution moves through the urban environment. Supported by Upwork. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Ransomware—when criminals lock up a computer system and demand cryptocurrency from victims—is hitting hospitals, pipelines, and schools. In this Cryptoland roundtable, VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu talks to Motherboard’s cybersecurity reporters Lorenzo Franceschi Bicchierai and Joseph Cox as well as cybersecurity expert Runa Sandvik to discuss how crypto both contributed to the ransomware epidemic, and how it helps investigators. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Bitcoin made a lot of people really rich, really quickly. More than a decade into the rise of crypto billionaires, how will this new class of wealth shape the future of crypto? VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu sits down with Motherboard’s Maxwell Strachan and Meltem Demirors of Coinshares to discuss. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Dexter counts down the Top 10 video games of the 2010s. Will your favorite make the cut? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Sex workers were some of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin, using crypto out of necessity when traditional banks and financial institutions cut them off. They are the "unbanked," but is crypto a solution or merely a Band-Aid? In this Cryptoland roundtable, VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu sits down with Motherboard’s Sam Cole and sex worker and author Liara Roux to talk all things crypto and sex work. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

A look back at the last year of gaming. How the pandemic transformed the way we play and why the gaming industry won big while we were locked down. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

From Liberland, to Puerto Rico, to El Salvador, people around the world are turning to the blockchain to create their own visions of crypto utopias. But what happens when crypto meets the real world, and can crypto utopias really exist? Should they? In this Cryptoland roundtable, VICE News talk to Motherboard’s Edward Ongweso Jr, and Jillian Crandall of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to talk about what happens when crypto idealists cross paths with government. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Find out why some of gaming’s biggest failures are actually more important than the hits. We head to the World Video Game Hall of Fame to get schooled by the masters. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Bitcoin mining is booming, and it uses a ton of energy. Mining businesses today are flocking anywhere they can get cheap energy, and promising to make efforts to be more green. In this Cryptoland roundtable, VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu sits down with Alice Hines from VICE News, Motherboard’s Audrey Carleton, and Digiconomist’s Alex De Vries to talk about how mines are dealing with their energy needs, and what that means for the environment. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

What's one billion dollars really worth? Dexter investigates the economics of the esports bubble and finds out how people behind the scenes get used by an explosive industry. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Today’s crypto landscape is a far cry from the days when there was just Bitcoin. In this roundtable panel, VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu talks to Motherboard’s Edward Ongweso Jr, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee, and Cybersecurity expert David Guido to talk about the new, high risk trading business of altcoins, the emergence of DeFi, and how the future of crypto looks very different from the OG days of Bitcoin. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

RESET explores the history of regulation in gaming from Pong to Mortal Kombat. Maybe it wasn’t game content that needed to be regulated, but instead gamers themselves? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In 2021, China made the sweeping decision to ban Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. That decision kicked off a migration of mining businesses to other countries including the US. In this roundtable panel VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu talks to Motherboard’s Jordan Pearson and Neeraj Agrawal of Coincenter to discuss what this ban means for Bitcoin and the future regulation of crypto. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Who gets to be a gamer? Did you choose that game or did it choose you? The rise of the gamer bro and how Black SIMS fans changed the game for everyone. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Find out how the U.S. Army uses video games to recruit new soliders. Dexter trains with the Army esports team at Fort Knox. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Investing in crypto is becoming easier thanks to third party services and wallets. But while investing becomes more accessible to the masses, some worry that the privacy that comes with wallets controlled by individuals is becoming a thing of the past. In this roundtable panel, VICE News’s Krishna Andavolu sits down with Motherboard’s Janus Rose and Satoshi Labs' Pavol Rusnak to talk about the promise and the risks that come with “being your own bank” and the future of the Bitcoin wallet. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Uncover the secret history of the relationship between the U.S. military and the video game industry. Dexter tries a VR treatment for vets experiencing PTSD. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Dexter unearths a lost successor to NBA Jam and plays it for the first time in 30 years. Plus, meet the people dedicated to preserving video games and gaming culture. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Find out what makes the fighting game community so unique amongst other gamer groups. Dexter battles an FGC legend and talks to two up and comers looking to change the game. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

All over the world, the crypto-wealthy are looking to create blockchain utopias that critics say are just the latest example of colonialism. In this episode of Cryptoland, Motherboard takes you to 'Floating Man,' a wild multi-day festival for believers in Liberland, a Bitcoin-powered micronation located in a contested patch of land between Croatia and Serbia that technically doesn't exist. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Chinese government has long tried to stamp out cryptocurrencies in the country with varying levels of success. In 2021, a ban on mining finally sent firms packing and seeking countries like Kazakhstan with friendlier stances toward crypto mining. They've also found homes in towns all over the US, where companies are encountering both support and criticism from locals, as well as politicians at the state and federal levels. Will Bitcoin be regulated in the States, and how should our leaders approach it? Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

All over the world, criminals are locking up important computer systems and demanding crypto as a ransom. So-called ransomware is officially an epidemic, and cryptocurrencies sit at the nexus of the crisis. In this episode of Cryptoland, Motherboard sifts through the fallout of a ransomware attack at schools in Afton, Missouri, and our panelists discuss the history and current role of crypto in this booming type of cyber-crime. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Crypto is often said to be a lifeline for people who are blocked from mainstream finance, and one community in particular has embraced its potential: sex workers. Sex workers routinely face discrmination from banks, credit card companies, and payment services, and so some performers—and startups—have turned to the blockchain. But is it a solution, or merely a Band-Aid? Motherboard visits the Spankchain hype house in Las Vegas to see what this world looks like in actions, and speaks to sex worker and author Liara Roux about how Bitcoin fits into sex work. Photo credit: Roberto Daza Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has discovered signs of water, climbed mountains, and is continuing to chug along on its journey to discover all it can about the Red Planet. This bold expedition began more than a decade ago, and over the years the robot has captured the imagination, and hearts, of the world. Motherboard's Space Show explores our Curiosity with Abigail Fraeman of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

"Be your own bank" reflects the core libertarian ethos of Bitcoin. But what happens when it goes wrong? A shocking amount of Bitcoins have been lost by their owners either because they lost their passwords or lost their wallets. In this episode of Cryptoland, Motherboard follows a father-and-son duo who run a business unlocking Bitcoin wallets for investors who could be rich—if they can remember their passwords. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In the beginning there was only Bitcoin, but today there exists a dizzying array of crypto projects promising eye-popping returns to investors. In this new Wild West, doge-themed memecoins and complex "decentralized finance" (DeFi) projects are making some people rich and ruining others due to scams, hacks, and plain old poor investing. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Bitcoin uses as much energy as a small country to secure the blockchain. Is crypto mining strengthening America's power grid and hastening the transition to renewables, or propping up the ailing fossil fuel industry while making the climate crisis worse? It depends on who you ask. Follow Motherboard to West Texas, which is quickly becoming a global Bitcoin mining hotspot, followed by a panel discussion on whether Bitcoin lives up to the promises of its biggest supporters or reflects the fears of its strongest environmental critics. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In 2013, one of the earliest Bitcoin conferences was held in San Jose, when one Bitcoin was worth $118. Now, 1 BTC goes for nearly $40,000, and the cryptocurrency industry has minted a new class of millionaires and billionaires with grand aspirations for the industry and the power it wields. In this episode of Cryptoland, Motherboard catches up with some of the earliest investors present at the Bitcoin 2013 conference and reckons with how the cryptocurrency industry has evolved over the past decade and looks at where it's going. Watch all 8 episodes of CRYPTOLAND here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbRB_fgZhKA6IXrJOMrVgT9S Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Tomorrow, Motherboard will be premiering the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, our documentary series reckoning with what cryptocurrency is doing to culture, politics, economies, society, the planet, and the physical infrastructure of our world. The series will roll out every Thursday over the course of the next eight weeks on this YouTube channel. * Motherboard has been trying to make a documentary about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency off and on for nearly a decade, almost as long as Bitcoin itself has been around. We filmed at Bitcoin 2013, back when one bitcoin was worth $118 and was primarily used for buying drugs on Silk Road. But we never really did anything with it. Other projects came up, staff who worked on it left the company (Alec Liu, the host of the documentary, was so excited by what he saw at the conference that he left journalism for the crypto industry), and the world of Bitcoin changed so often and so much that it soon felt like a documentary would have to encompass far more than a buzzy conference to meaningfully reckon with what cryptocurrency is doing to culture, politics, economies, society, the planet, and the physical infrastructure of our world. In the meantime, we’ve been reporting and writing endlessly on Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain tech, and cryptocurrency more broadly. We’ve covered Bitcoin and cryptocurrency scams, lawsuits, hacks, investment success stories and failures, important technical changes, crypto culture, and how it all interacts with existing power structures. We were there for the block size "civil war," for the ICO craze, and when NFTs first began to take off. We have written about memecoins, shitcoins, privacy coins, DAOs, DeFi, protocol forks, rare Pepes, energy, environmental concerns, and innovation. While many people still wonder if cryptocurrency is the future, we know that it’s also profoundly affecting our world today, right now, all over the place. And so last fall we set out to make Motherboard’s first major documentary series in a few years, and our most ambitious video work in the cryptocurrency space. We partnered with our colleagues at VICE News Tonight to document what cryptocurrency is doing to politics, culture, and the world. We shot: - at a fracking / Bitcoin mining operation in West Texas - inside a massive Bitcoin mine in upstate New York that recently relocated from China - in the disputed Eastern European micronation of Liberland - with a couple who struck it rich in altcoins and moved to Puerto Rico, a crypto tax haven - with sex workers who use crypto at a hype house in Las Vegas - on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with one of Bitcoin’s earliest investors - at a Bitcoin mine in Kazakhstan And lots more. We also, at long last, revisited our early footage from the 2013 conference, which now looks quaint compared to the spectacles that the crypto industry puts on today. The result is CRYPTOLAND, a series that we think cuts through the hype and knee-jerk reactions about cryptocurrency to show how it’s affecting the world today, and what it might look like tomorrow. Each episode consists of a 12-15 minute field segment that introduces a concept in cryptocurrency, followed by a studio discussion with Motherboard reporters and experts in the field, who will contextualize what you just watched. The first season has eight episodes, and the first episode will drop Thursday. So many people worked on this show, and you’ll see a lot of them in the episodes, which we’ll be rolling out every Thursday for the next eight weeks on Motherboard’s YouTube channel. But we specifically want to thank our showrunner, Jonah Kaplan, without whom this would not be possible, our in-studio host Krishna Andavolu, and Lara Heintz and Justin Silverman, who produced the studio segments. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Square Kilometre Array telescope is so big, it’s being built in both Australia and South Africa. The radio telescope, comprised of an array of radio towers and dishes, will be the largest radio telescope ever made. The array will listen to signals from deep space, in hopes of discovering more about the dawn of time. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

While they have caused catastrophic destruction on the past, asteroids are also thought to be key ingredients for new life, explains Bill Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute. In addition to mapping when the next asteroid will be on a crash course with Earth, Bottke and his team are launching a mission that will visit a record number of asteroids — and find out more about the solar system’s origins, one metal-rich world at a time. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In an arid Chilean desert, scientists are building the world’s “biggest eye on the sky.” We speak to Michele Cirasuolo and Suzanne Ramsay of the European Southern Observatory. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Late last year, Dr. Robert Montogomery and his team at NYU performed the first ever pig-to-human kidney transplant. Even more recently, a pig heart was put into a person for the first time. The U.S is facing a donor organ crisis, and this technology could potentially save millions of human lives. But there are still a lot of scientific and ethical questions to answer before xenotransplantation can go mainstream. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Water is necessary for life, at least here on Earth. But could the same be true for the subsurface oceans on distant moons like Europa and Enceladus? And what about the methane seas of Titan? Could these be home to life as we don't know it? Motherboard's Becky Ferreira speaks with Jonathan Lunine, the Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Cornell. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Ann Marie Cody is a research scientist with SETI who combs the universe looking for hints that we might not be alone. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

When it comes to the international energy market and the distribution of gas by large commercial companies, sustainability is not always a main priority. So how can we as consumers address this dilemma? In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard goes to Arnhem, a city in the Netherlands, to meet with Gijs. Gijs is a Dutch indie engineer and motorcycle enthusiast who has designed a motorbike that runs on self harvested methane gas from roadside bogs. He hopes to raise awareness about the lack of sustainability in the commercialized gas industry through the hardships of harvesting his own energy. Related Videos: The Half Tesla, Half Honda, 100% Electric Hot Rod - The Teslonda (https://youtu.be/Nhwl-Skxdzo) This Pyro Makes the Strongest DIY Lasers In the World Out of Old Tech (https://youtu.be/WUCHkFKOvIw) The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars (https://youtu.be/NuAMczraBIM) Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The moment of truth is finally here. After decades of work by thousands of scientists from 14 counties, and billions of dollars spent, the James Webb Space Telescope is go for launch. JWST promises untold discoveries from the farthest reaches of time and space, explains Natasha Batalha, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.  Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Cloud seeding has been around for almost a century, touted for its ability to increase rain and snowfall in drought-stricken regions. Governments have spent billions on these weather-modifying projects, despite scant evidence that the technology actually increased precipitation. Now, scientists finally have proof that cloud seeding works. But can weather modification ever escape its controversial reputation? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Launched in 1977 to tour the outer planets of the solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft are now the farthest human made objects from Earth and the first to actually leave the solar system. Mission scientists share insights about what it took to first get Voyager launched, and how they keep 45-year-old spacecraft humming. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

A look at the life-charging transformation that happens when space travelers witness Earth from orbit. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Despite stereotypes about willpower and morality, in the United States, the scientific consensus is that addiction is a brain disorder. We spoke to neuroscientists about what that means, how drugs really change our brains, and the search for brain-based addiction treatments. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Space Perspectives offers a new way for tourists to view the Earth from way up. Instead of using rockets or space planes, the company has designed a pressurized capsule that rides under a hydrogen-filled balloon all the way up to 100,000 feet.  Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of The Space Show, Becky speaks with Abel Mendez, Director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, and some of his students, about what the loss of the iconic radio telescope means for science and the people who live and work at Arecibo. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Outer Wilds is the award-winning game that lets players explore a miniature space station in a spaceship made of wood. Along the way, players seek a greater understanding of space exploration and the universe, all while racing against a sun that is primed to go supernova. Unlike countless other space video games, Outer Wilds does not involve laser guns and death rays. Now with a new expansion of the game called, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, the mysteries of the universe just got even more mysterious. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

01:55 Future of Medicine 14:06 Future of healing 27:14 Future of Diagnosis 38:08 Future of Babies 49:36 Future of Drugs What Happens Next examines the future as we confront massive technological transformations in central aspects of daily life. In this episode, we focus on water, food, work, driving, meat, and fact. What Happens Next is a production by RetroReport: https://www.retroreport.org/ Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

It's not just that the Navajo need the internet – the internet needs the Navajo. It's estimated that 7 out of 10 households on rural tribal lands have absolutely no internet connection. Why is this, when you can drive just a few minutes off the reservation and get full access to broadband and cellular connections? Motherboard visited Navajo Nation and Monument Valley, Utah to see what Darrah Blackwater and Shandiin Herrera – two cousins, lawyers (and soon to be lawyers), and Navajo citizens – are doing to help to solve the digital divide within their community and indigenous communities around the nation, by working on a community, infrastructural, and policy levels. The Navajo & Hopi Resiliency Fund fund will help to create new communitiy centers around the Navajo Nation that will bring connectivity closer to community members. To learn more, go to bit.ly/NHResiliency Presented by HP. #ad Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Our plane travel needs to become more sustainable, but how? Innovators around the world are working on solutions ranging from battery power to biofuels.  *This series is supported by DELTA. VICE News retains full editorial authority. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

For decades, clean hydrogen power has been touted as a potentially world-changing technology. But the hydrogen economy has never quite materialized. With an oncoming wave of government and institutional investment in hydrogen power, we spoke with two industry entrepreneurs: Enass Abo-Hamed, whose company H2GO offers solid-state hydrogen storage, and New Jersey’s Mike Strizki, operator of the famous “Hydrogen House.” Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

2:05 Future of Water 11:44 Future of Food 18:47 Future of Work 26:48 Future of Driving 37:14 Future of Meat 50:34 Future of Fact What Happens Next examines the future as we confront massive technological transformations in central aspects of daily life. In this episode, we focus on water, food, work, driving, meat, and fact. What Happens Next is a production by RetroReport: https://www.retroreport.org/ Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Next 50 Years: Scientists are innovating solutions to transform harmful greenhouse gases into everyday objects like water bottles, sunglasses and wallets. It all centers around identifying unique bacteria, hidden in all corners of our planet - from inside a rabbit's stomach to the depth of the ocean. Researchers are identifying these bacteria and realizing their potential in transforming harmful emissions like CO2 and methane into chemicals that can be used to make a whole host of objects that would have otherwise been created from plastics derived from fossil fuels. *This series is supported by Delta. VICE News retains full editorial authority. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

One day, a bus severed the cable that provided internet to Daniel Heredia's neighborhood. The large ISP said it would take two weeks to reconnect – he knew there had to be a better way – a more personable, community-centric, human internet. Fast forward to today, as Motherboard joins NYC Mesh, a group building their own decentralized, wireless mesh networks across NYC, and volunteer Daniel Heredia to see how they spread the mesh across New York City and plan provide affordable and universal internet to all New Yorkers. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

What Happens Next examines the future as we confront massive technological transformations in central aspects of daily life. The Future of Cities 02:05 The Future of Money 12:19 The Future of Colleges 23:10 The Future of Pandemics 31:39 The Future of Homes 41:58 The Future of Aging 50:25 What Happens Next is a production by RetroReport: https://www.retroreport.org/ Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Next 50 Years: In Iceland, at the edge of the Arctic Circle, scientists are creating the one of the first carbon negative power stations, using geothermal technology and a revolutionary carbon capture process. They're now setting their sights exporting this ground-breaking technology to the world, by creating CO2 hubs, where lands rich in basalt can become natural storage for the world's CO2. *This series is supported by Delta. VICE News retains full editorial authority. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Neutrinos are one of nature's most elusive subatomic particles. Countless trillions of them are streaming all around us, yet they almost never interact with matter, making them extremely difficult to study. Yet scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica do manage to "see" these particles, and all it takes are thousands of detectors suspended within a cubic kilometer of ice. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Through his nonprofit Nature’s SAFE, Tullis Matson collects and freezes sperm, eggs, and other genetic material from some of the world’s most endangered animals. These samples could, in theory, help make more of these creatures in the future, through cloning and other high-tech methods. Yet other scientists aren’t sure whether “frozen zoos” are a good tool for combatting extinctions, like Conservation X CEO Alex Dehgan, who thinks more holistic approaches are needed to fight the complex problems facing our planet. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In 2019, three high schoolers founded The Free and Accessible Technology Initiative to solve a problem they saw in their community: the large divide between those who have access to technology and those who don’t. Motherboard joined FATI down in Virginia to see how these young men are helping solve the digital divide in their community. In this 3-part docuseries with Motherboard & HP, we travel across the US to find the incredible the stories of young Americans & MAPA activists taking charge to bridge the digital divide and remove barriers to access, embedding with folks on the ground, in far flung cities and overlooked communities in our own backyard, with HP’s Spectre 360˚ empowering their work and advocacy. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Launched in 2013, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope is in the process of creating the most detailed star chart in the history of astronomy. With unequaled precision and detail, the movements of 1.7 billion stars are now available to scientists and the public. Gaia scientist Timo Prusti speaks with Motherboard's Becky Ferreira about this groundbreaking mission to map the heavens. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

We burrow into the world of robotic insects, a menagerie of mechanical cockroaches, bees, fleas, and flies. Insectile robots might one day accomplish tasks from search-and-rescue operations to pollinating crops. But there’s a dark side, a public paranoia about this tech, as seen in popular fiction that depicts robotic insects as tools for spying, killing, and other nefarious ends—not to mention a history tying this science to the CIA. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

NASA's Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission launched 2016 with the goal of visiting an asteroid called Bennu, grabbing a sample of rocks from the surface, and then delivering them back to scientists on Earth. Last year the spacecraft successfully nabbed a bunch of rocks, and is now heading home. If all goes well, the sample should be safely back on Earth by 2023. In this episode of The Space Show, Motherboard reporter Becky Ferreira speaks with OSIRIS-REx scientists Daniella DellaGiustina, Pierre Haenecour and Andrew Ryan. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

We dive into the exploding field of soft robotics, zooming in on “robotic textiles.” These fabrics might one day enable anything from shape-changing smart clothes to strength-enhancing exosuits. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

From the surface of Earth it seems the stars and galaxies are randomly placed throughout the universe. But step back to a galactic scale, and a mysterious network of roads and hubs emerges. This is the Cosmic Web, and we are just beginning to learn how it underlies the nature of the cosmos. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low and Carter Emmart from the American Museum of Natural History take us on a tour of the Cosmic Web. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

We meet the engineers behind a new, ultrasound-powered injectable microchip. About the size of a grain of salt, the chip could help doctors diagnose illness and monitor vital signs. But believers in vaccine conspiracy theories have hijacked and misrepresented this new tech. We examine what happens when emerging science collides with online rumors and misinformation. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Becky interviews Professor Moriba Jah of University of Texas at Austin about the problem of orbital trash and what can be done about it. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

When an object called Oumuamua was detected flying through our solar system in 2017, scientists were baffled by its strange behavior. Many said it was just a bizarre space rock, but Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes it was most likely a relic of an alien civilization. And he thinks you should believe that too. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The devices you use to give directions, answer questions, and set a timer probably have feminine-sounding voices. We look into the weird history of that choice, and what it means for the perception of women. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Ziri Younsi from the University College London speaks about his work with the Event Horizon Telescope and how it is used to take photographs of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Panspermia is a theory that life can spread naturally between planets. Amir Siraj studies how life on Earth might have first arrived from another world. He is the youngest person included in this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list of scientists, and is a student at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Gravitational Waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time itself. In this episode of The Space Show, Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT School of Science, reveals how these waves allow us to "see" the invisible. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Solar flares and geomagnetic storms have been responsible for some of the largest blackouts in history. Professor Tatiana Podladchikova of The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow is an expert in space weather. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Along the coast of El Salvador lies the small town of El Zonte, known mostly for ecotourism and surfing. Even decades after being discovered by tourists and surfers the small town of 3,000 locals never had the infrastructure for an ATM. But, this past year El Zonte finally caught a wave of its own and now (oddly enough) is home to a Bitcoin ATM. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Professor Michael Garrett of the University of Manchester speaks with Motherboard's Becky Ferreira about his work with SETI - the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Matt Russo was torn between careers in astronomy and music. So he combined the two and set the cosmos to music. Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

People who believed in UFOs were long thought of by society as conspiracy theorists and kooks. But a series of sightings, leaks, and official government disclosures over the course of the last few years has made even skeptics look to the skies and wonder what’s up there. VICE looks at the long history of UFO theories ahead of the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report to Congress expected later this month. Watch more: The Search for Alien Life https://youtu.be/XaQAZcYl5XM NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell and works from Sagan's old office. In this episode of The Space Show, she reveals how we may be just a few years away from answering humanity's greatest question: are we alone in the universe? Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The United Arab Emirates launched its first Mars mission in 2020, instantly turning the tiny nation into a major player in interplanetary exploration. Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

2020 has been a rough year for life on Earth. But with the launch of three new missions to study the Red Planet and search for signs of life, 2020 has been pretty great for Mars. Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Kenneth F. Harris II is a 28-year-old engineer at NASA. His job is to defend satellites in orbit. The threats include physical attacks by enemy satellites in space and cyber threats sent from anywhere on Earth. Satellite technology is essential to keep modern civilization humming, and Harris is an expert at keeping orbital assets fully operational. Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 The First Private Space Mission to Venus https://youtu.be/U7iVs0Cq84M Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Rocket Lab, the private space company best known for launching small payloads into orbit, is poised to become the first private company to ever explore another planet. Founder Peter Beck shares his plans to put a probe into the atmosphere of the hottest planet in the solar system. Watch more from this series: Inside the Fastest Spaceship Ever Made https://youtu.be/MegG5jFNRmQ NASA Is Building a Space Station Around the Moon https://youtu.be/Uxq406Bd7T8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

NFTs-- non-fungible tokens-- are booming. In simple terms, they are unique digital tokens establishing the authenticity and ownership of all manner of digital things. Tweets, collectible basketball cards-- even a single digital pixel. But it's in art world where they've grabbed the most attention -- and the highest prices. Vice News spent some time Inside the NFT Boom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMLUzCNpR8) alongside the people who are buying it, selling it, and making it. Come take a VR tour of the world's "most significant" NFT collections here. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

As NASA gears up for a return to the moon this decade, work is underway for a permanent lunar orbital space station, project name Gateway. In this episode of The Space Show, host Becky Ferreira speaks with Dan Hartman, NASA’s Gateway program manager, and Lara Kearney, NASA’s Gateway program deputy manager about the new space station. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

NFTs-- non-fungible tokens-- are booming. In simple terms, they're unique digital tokens establishing the authenticity and ownership of all manner of digital things. Tweets, collectible basketball cards-- even a single digital pixel. But it's in art world where they've grabbed the most attention -- and the highest prices. So what the hell is crypto art? Who's buying it, who's selling it, and who cares? We met up with some of the crypto art world's star players to find out. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Venmo is one of the most popular money transfer apps in America, used often to pay bills or split a check. We explore how people are using it for another purpose — to be heard by public figures in the political, entertainment and corporate realms. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Parker Solar Probe is already traveling faster than any spaceship ever launched from Earth, and by 2024 will be moving at 430,000 miles per hour! It will also get closer to our sun than any spacecraft before it, with its solar shields eventually heating up to nearly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Lee explains the origins of deep fakes, what they have to do with porn, and how they could drastically change our understanding of the truth. Read more about Deep Fakes on MOTHERBOARD: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594qx5/there-is-no-tech-solution-to-deepfakes Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Ever since the bitcoin boom of late 2017, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and even DogeCoin have made their way into the mainstream. But for some predisposed to addiction, the volatility of trading cryptocurrency can sometimes become a dangerous obsession. In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard goes to Castle Craig Hospital in Scotland, a rehabilitation facility that recently added treatment for cryptocurrency addiction to its gambling rehabilitation program intended to help those struggling with betting specifically on (unstable) digital currencies. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Taking old cars and making them better is a part of American culture: the hot rod. In this episode of State of Repair, Jim Belosic takes a 1981 Honda Accord and makes it electric... and very fast. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Motherboard meets Kevin Vaughan, a 28-year-old vet and amputee as he tries his new amphibious water prosthetic, "The Fin,” a 3D printed prosthetic engineered for swimming. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Imagine hopping on a Hyperloop capsule and getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes instead driving for six hours. Now imagine the whole country having access to this kind of speed. That’s the kind of future that EPFLoop, the student team at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, are working toward. Motherboard joins the team as they present their prototype to the public and dive deep into the DNA of the Hyperloop—a concept that was developed at their university nearly 40 years ago, and one they continue to build upon. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Traffic. Congestion. Pollution. Hours-long commutes. What if you could leave it all behind and trade it in for an environmentally friendly and energy-efficient personal copter—all without a pilot’s license? This kind of future is the one that Matt Chasen and his team at Lift Aircraft are flying toward at full speed. Their octodecacopter is the dream many have been waiting for—a real flying car—and they hope to make it fully accessible in the near future. Motherboard lifts off with exclusive access to Lift Aircraft’s prototype drone copter. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel BPS.space. After he saw the launch and successful landing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, he knew that he wanted to do that too—so he took it upon himself to learn all he could about rocket science to get a job at SpaceX. Since then, many companies have come knocking at his door, but he’s decided to keep on forging ahead with his DIY endeavors to build, launch, and land fully functional scale rockets at a fraction of the cost and time of experimenting with real rockets. Motherboard travels to Tennessee to meet with the rocketeer leading that charge for budding DIY rocket scientists around the world. Check out Joe’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

What if the all the ships that navigated our vast oceans could navigate, chart a course, and think for themselves—without any human input? This is the future the Sea Machines Robotics in Boston, Massachusetts envisions—and it’ll be here even before driverless cars become mainstream. Motherboard set sail on Sea Machines’ boats to see exactly what the future of our automated seas will look like. Created with Geico. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In his 2011 book, Kevin Mitnick called himself “the world’s most famous hacker.” It may seem like a stretch but Mitnick’s feats in the 1990s certainly put him in a lot of headlines at a time when newspapers didn’t really cover hackers and cybersecurity that often. But before he went on the run for more than two years to avoid getting arrested and became the most wanted and most famous hacker of his time, Mitnick was a young, curious geek who learned how to hack by playing with radios—and playing pranks. When he was 16, in one of his first-ever hacks, Mitnick figured out a way to take over the drive-up windows a local McDonald’s. Sitting in his car from across the street, Mitnick pretended to be a McDonald employee, taking customers’ orders. In this installment of 'Greatest Moments in Hacking History,' Mitnick tells us the story of what he says is his favorite hack of all-time. WATCH NEXT: Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

After over 20 years in prankster activism, The Yes Men turn their sights on Volkswagen—making the public "apology" from the company that they say should have happened years ago. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of 'Greatest Moments in Hacking History,' Kevin Mitnick is a fugitive hiding out in Colorado. In an attempt to avoid detection from the authorities, Mitnick decides he wants to hack a cellphone so he can hide his location while using the device. To do this, the hacker sets up a social engineering attack against Motorola to fool them into giving him the source code to the MicroTAC Ultra Lite cell phone so he can break into it. WATCH NEXT: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnuaHl378M Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In episode nine of The Most Unknown, neuroscientist Anil Seth and cognitive psychologist Laurie R. Santos travel to Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago, a small island home to over a thousand monkeys, where scientists study primate cognition. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In episode eight of The Most Unknown, physicist Jun Ye, builder of the world’s most powerful atomic clock, travels to England to undergo consciousness experiments with neuroscientist Anil Seth. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

From his basement lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Jun Ye and his team have built the world’s most precise atomic clock. The clock is so powerful it can measure otherwise imperceptible changes in the physical world. “Have you ever seen the movie called Interstellar? You’ll see some of that in our lab, it’s not science fiction. You can actually see clocks slow down,” explains Ye. In episode seven of The Most Unknown, geobiologist Victoria Orphan travels to JILA—a physics institute jointly operated by the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST—to untangle questions of space and time with Ye and his otherworldly atomic clock. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria Orphan. “These organisms aren’t germs to be feared but actually are making the world tick.” In episode six of The Most Unknown, astrophysicist Rachel Smith and geobiologist Victoria Orphan dive to the bottom of the Pacific at depths of 3,000 feet to probe the unseen microbial communities that feed off methane and invisibly alter our planet’s chemical environment. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Astrophysicist Rachel Smith is an observer of forming stars. From 20,000 light years away, Smith trawls the frontiers of our galaxy searching through the chemistry of where in the universe Earth-like planets could exist. “You have a puzzle with a million or a billion pieces, and we’ve got one piece,” explains Smith. “I’m interested in the chemistry of what’s going on from where we are to where the center of our galaxy is.” In episode five of The Most Unknown, Smith travels to Hawaii’s W.M. Keck Observatory with astrobiologist Luke McKay to explore the Milky Way using Keck’s powerful twin telescopes perched atop the Big Island’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

For astrobiologist Luke McKay, the question of whether life exists on other planets begins at the microbial communities thriving in America’s hot springs. It’s at hostile environments like these where extremophiles, to the bewilderment of scientists, are able to survive on our planet where all other life can’t. “What I do is, I go to these extreme environments and I look at microbial relatives of ancient life. The early Earth did not have oxygen—we’re talking four billion years ago, when life developed on Earth,” explains McKay. In episode four of The Most Unknown, psychologist Axel Cleeremans joins Luke McKay to search for Earth analogues of probable extraterrestrial life at Nevada’s Great Boiling Spring. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The human brain is composed of around 88 billion neurons, with each neuron connecting to about 10,000 other neurons. Consciousness, as psychologist Axel Cleeremans puts it, is one of the most significant problems of the 21st century. “It really remains a mystery how the biological activity of the brain produces minds,” explains Cleermans. In episode three of The Most Unknown, dark matter physicist Davide D’Angelo travels to Belgium to explore unusual consciousness experiments at Axel Cleeremans’s lab. In the lab, researchers use thought-controlled robotic limbs—similar to the prosthetic limbs used by amputees—as a window into answering the enduring, perhaps unanswerable human question: What is Consciousness? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In the over two-decades-long search for dark matter, scientists so far have come up short. In recent years though, construction of new experiments and upgrades to already existing detectors are giving new hope that we’re closer than ever to understanding dark matter. One of those new efforts is SABRE, an international collaboration that will house multiple detectors working in tandem in the southern and northern hemispheres: two at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, and another at an underground lab in an Australian gold mine. In episode two of The Most Unknown, Motherboard travels to Gran Sasso National Laboratory with physicist Davide D’Angelo and geomicrobiologist Jennifer Macalady to get an early look at SABRE’s latest phase of development. Read more about The Most Unknown here: https://vice.video/2CQcMZw Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The existential threat of nuclear war is no longer a Cold War memory. With nine countries armed with around 15,000 atomic bombs up to 53 times stronger than those dropped in the Second World War, the stakes are arguably higher. Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close. While most people know about the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fewer are aware that an additional 2,000 atomic bombs were detonated after World War II and tested on hundreds of thousands of young soldiers to prepare them for nuclear war. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In episode one of The Most Unknown, microbiologist Jennifer Macalady, along with a team of divers, spelunk through Italy’s water-rich Frasassi Caves to search for mysterious microbes that could hold clues to the origins of life on Earth. For the past 20 years, Macalady and her team have rappelled through Frasassi’s immense chambers to solve what’s perplexed scientists since the caves were discovered: How does life thrive in Frasassi’s depths, and where does it come from? “We’re slowly creeping toward understanding,” Macalady explains. “But we’re sort of toward the beginning.” Read more about The Most Unknown here: https://vice.video/2CQcMZw Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Watch the full-length, feature film available now on Netflix! Nine episodes with exclusive bonus material are releasing on Motherboard YouTube starting this Thursday, August 23. Subscribe now so you don’t miss anything: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know? By introducing researchers from diverse backgrounds for the first time, then dropping them into new, immersive field work they previously hadn’t tackled, the film reveals the true potential of interdisciplinary collaboration, pushing the boundaries of how science storytelling is approached. What emerges is a deeply human trip to the foundations of discovery and a powerful reminder that the unanswered questions are the most crucial ones to pose. Directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ian Cheney (The Search for General Tso, The City Dark) and advised by world-renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man), The Most Unknown is an ambitious look at a side of science never before shown on screen. The film was made possible by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. Read more about The Most Unknown here: https://vice.video/2CQcMZw Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

From a storage unit in rural Illinois, YouTuber Styropyro builds high-powered laser experiments in a makeshift lab for his nearly half a million subscribers. A chemist by training, Drake Anthony started his Styropyro YouTube channel over a decade ago, when he was still a teenager. As YouTube clamps down in recent years on the types of content it allows on its platform, Styropyro claims that DIY, science-focused YouTubers like him are getting unreasonably moderated. Motherboard travelled to rural Illinois to meet up with him at his DIY science lab. Styropyro's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/styropyro Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Rich is a car enthusiast whose passion is to find wrecked Teslas, bring them back to life, and then share his repair adventures on his YouTube channel Rich Rebuilds. When he found out that Tesla would not service or support his salvaged cars, he took it upon himself to scour the internet and harvest working parts from several busted Teslas. He Frankensteined them together until his creations were fully operational, at a fraction of what it would cost to buy a new or certified pre-owned Tesla. Motherboard travels to Massachusetts to meet with the rogue mechanic leading a grassroots movement of DIY fixers who are taking back the right to repair the things they own. Check out Rich's YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2BAD9Uc Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardvice More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

From birthday parties to televised professional leagues, bowling is the number one participatory sport in America. To keep this favorite pastime alive, a rare breed of highly skilled technicians thrive on the fridge of our modern technological society to make sure that these old-school pinsetter machines work as well today as they did on their first day on the bowling lanes back in the 40s and 50s. In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard ventures out into our own Brooklyn backyard to spend time with one of the last traditional pinsetter mechanics, Joe Martinez, who’s spent the last 25 years keeping the symphonic cacophony of the bowling alley machines whirring along. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Ingrid Burrington, author of "Networks of New York," explains how big cities like New York are constantly under surveillance. WATCH NEXT: The First Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera -- https://youtu.be/2xVNgP0PHzg Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

A mile under the Earth’s crust, inside the gold mines of South Africa, lie the deepest living animals on the planet: nematodes—or “Devil Worms”—the tiniest multicellular worms on Earth. Explore the mine from the full length video in 360°. Watch the full length video: https://youtu.be/w_-w5hQKlQ4 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

After nearly 9 years as an FCC commissioner, including a stint as the agency’s first acting chairwoman, Mignon Clyburn announced in April that she would be leaving her post early. Clyburn has spent the past year watching as each of her most notable successes was systematically dismantled by the new, Republican-controlled commission. She says she no longer thinks her advocacy can have a real impact at the FCC. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Scientists are leaping exponentially closer to finding life beyond Earth. Missions to Mars and Saturn’s moons are prime candidates for finding the first signs of life and NASA can now identify more than 3,500 planets outside our solar system, many with habitable temperatures. That number is quickly growing as space travel technology improves and probes head deeper into the galaxy. Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson explores one of our civilization's most perplexing questions: Are we alone? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

We visit Denmark and talk to a marine maintenance manager to learn more about how undersea cables are crucial to data transportation. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

On March 15th, 2018, the city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York issued an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency mining. Plattsburgh is part of a long-standing power agreement that gives the city an allotment of some of the cheapest electricity anywhere in the world, but a recent influx of cryptomining companies and their energy-draining rigs have raised power prices at the expense of the general population. The ban is meant to be a temporary arrangement, but it could potentially end all cryptomining investment in the city. WATCH NEXT: CryptoHarlem is Teaching Encryption to the Over-Policed and Heavily Surveilled -- https://vice.video/2EJvKlg Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Living With Jaguars is a 360° film documenting wild jaguars in Brazil. Part documentary and part immersive game, Living With Jaguars explores historical and current tensions in a rural region where jaguars prey on ranchers' cattle and ranchers kill them in retaliation. Now, ranchers and jaguars must find new ways to co-exist - or risk the future of a species under threat. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Every month for the past five years, Harlem residents have gathered to discuss digital privacy and how to best protect themselves from intrusive surveillance. Motherboard joined CryptoHarlem founder Matthew Mitchell at one of his crypto parties to see firsthand how he is empowering people of color, who he says are over-policed and heavily surveilled. “You can’t buy a bag of chips in Harlem without being surveilled,” Mitchell said. CryptoHarlem has been teaching the community how to use encryption and other methods to prevent their digital activities from being surveilled and used against them. “People say this is the next frontier of civil rights,” Mitchell said. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The most important thing that happens when a new iPhone comes out is not the release of the phone, but the disassembly of it. The iPhone teardown, undertaken by third-party teams around the world, provides a roadmap for the life of the iPhone X: Is it repairable? Who made the components inside it? The answers to these questions shift stock markets, electronics design, and consumer experience. Every year there’s a race to become the first to tear down the phone, with teams from around the world flying to Australia—where it’s first released—to compete to be the first to look inside the world’s most coveted new phone. Motherboard embedded with iFixit, a California-based company whose primary mission is to make it easier for the average person to disassemble and repair their electronics, for its iPhone X teardown. We went inside iFixit’s office, the “headquarters of the global repair movement, which features a tool laboratory and a parts library with thousands of electronics parts and disassembly tools. Then we went to Sydney, Australia, as iFixit tried to become the first team to tear down the iPhone X. WATCH NEXT: Meet The Pinball Doctors Repairing NYC's Arcades - https://vice.video/2DRls2X Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over. In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard goes to Nebraska to talk to the farmers and mechanics who are fighting large manufacturers like John Deere for the right to access the diagnostic software they need to repair their tractors. WATCH NEXT: The Pinball Doctors, the Last Arcade Technicians in NYC - https://vice.video/2DRls2X Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Douglas McCauley is a Santa Barbara-based marine scientist who is looking to technology for new ways to take on some of the ocean's biggest challenges. Along with his colleagues at the Benioff Ocean Initiative (BOI)—a UCSB-based collaboration between marine biologists, tech innovators, and citizen scientists—McCauley has helped develop numerous platforms to monitor threats to marine ecosystems. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Pinball was once an American obsession. Now, the arcade classic is making a comeback, but the repair technicians skilled enough to repair these complex machines are limited. In this episode of State of Repair, Motherboard talks to two remaining pinball repair techs in New York to see what goes into keeping these highly specialized games running. WATCH NEXT: The Machinists who Keep the New York Times Up and Running - https://vice.video/2DjkKfx Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Rhianna Lakin is the force behind the leading online community for women interested in drones. She’s proactively carved out a space for women in a male dominated industry and is challenging drone pilots everywhere to use the technology for good. She’s hoping to use drones as a powerful tool to expose and combat deforestation, aid in search and rescue missions and humanitarian relief, amplify the voices of protesters and inspire the next generation to do the same. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Jeff and Alicia Raymond are farming for the future. As climate change and accelerating population growth contribute to increasing food scarcity, people like Jeff are turning their minds to practical innovations. Jeff and Alicia have created a fully self-sufficient ecosystem in their backyard, a working prototype of a system that can provide food even in extreme environments like Mars. Online, he's known as The Real Martian. Offline, his work could help create a more sustainable agricultural industry for all. Check out Jeff's YouTube channel here: https://vice.video/2CjEk9G WATCH NEXT: The Drone Engineer Helping Farmers Work Smarter - http://bit.ly/2y1Odqi Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections than currently die from cancer. Discovered 100 years ago, bacteriophages—viruses that eat bacteria—might provide an answer. But phage therapy has only been approved for use on humans in the former Soviet Union. Motherboard travels to Georgia to meet the doctors using phage therapy today, and meets with the American scientists trying to normalize phage therapy in the United States. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Creating a walking robot is no easy task. But despite numerous efforts throughout the years, people are still trying to create robots that can truly walk around our environments like we do. Motherboard met with Agility Robotics, a small startup in Oregon that is one of many trying to crack the code of creating the perfect bipedal robot. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless networks from the ground up in order to provide affordable and high-speed internet to prevent the creation of a digital class system. Check out CNET's channel for more: http://bit.ly/2gpeXdr Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Today Rick Ramgattie will assess the security of the D-Link DIR-865L router to show how he can chain vulnerabilities in both its web and storage interfaces to get root shell access. This would give an attacker full access to the device thus allowing them to spy on the user's web traffic, redirect the user to phishing sites, or add the router to a botnet. When you plug in a USB drive the router shares it over an anonymous Samba share, which an attacker can abuse. Since the Samba server follows symbolic links we can then explore the entire file system rather than just the USB drive. The router stores the web interface password in a clear text file, so with Samba we download it. The router's web application has a file inclusion vulnerability, so we can write files where we want.  Finally we show with a race condition vuln, we can use the file inclusion vulnerability to overwrite a script with our desired included script and have it execute. By chaining these vulnerabilities together, we can launch a Telnet server, achieving full root access to the device.

Video starts 3:06 Stream ends: 1:50:00 Adrian Bednarek is a security analyst at Baltimore’s Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), and today he'll be showing us how he's broken into popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Bednarek has been reverse engineering, writing low level tools to aid in the reverse engineering process, and creating custom exotic exploits for over 20 years. He specializes in reverse engineering proprietary communications protocols, especially those of MMORPG’s. In many cases he has created tools and workflows to circumvent anti tampering, software and or hardware fingerprinting countermeasures. Bednarek will show how exploits could be used on Elder Scrolls Online, Dark Age of Camelot, and Wildstar. To be clear, Bednarek has reported these exploits to the game developers and they are now patched.

Video starts: 5:30 Today we're going to hack a router with client-side authentication using http traffic inspector (e.g. BURP Suite) and a browser. Many commercially available small-office and home routers perform authentication on the client-browser, which is weak and may be breached easily. This can be easily abused by attackers who can bypass the authentication and then attack the rest of the devices on the router's network. An adversary can reverse engineer the authentication mechanism by going through the source code in the browser. Being able to bypass the authentication on the router will allow an adversary to traverse the rest of the network, manipulate network configurations, and open up other access points including ports to direct traffic in and out of the network. Using BURP lets the user see and edit the requests and responses sent to and from the router's web interface.

Livestream starts: 3:45 Break Ends: 3:03:30 During this livestream, security researcher Jacob Holcomb will show us a now-patched vulnerability in the ASUS RT-N56U router. He’s going to exploit a stack-based buffer overflow to get full remote access. An attacker with a root shell on a router could man-in-the-middle internet traffic to steal credentials or monitor that traffic to setup more attacks on other targets in that router's network. Holcomb and our security reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai will walk you through step-by-step to explain how these exploits were used to find a vulnerability in the router. We will show how to reverse engineer the router's web server and the development of the exploit to gain full remote access on the router. To be clear, this exploit was responsibly disclosed to ASUS and has been patched. The vulnerability no longer exists. If you own the router, you should make sure you’re using the latest firmware. Jacob Holcomb is a principal researcher at Baltimore’s Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), where he’s worked on SOHOpelessly Broken, which discovered over 50 new 0-day vulnerabilities in network routers and served as the foundation for the first-ever router hacking contest at DEFCON in IoT Village. This is part of How Hacking Works, a series that seeks to demystify the security research world. Learn more at: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/topic/how-hacking-works

The rechargeable batteries in your laptop, your cell phone, your headphones: all of these can be used to power your life and take you off the grid. DIY Powerwalls – rechargeable lithium-ion battery installations, made from recycled batteries – are the future of power, whether you know it or not. We visited Jehu Garcia, a DIY Powerwall builder and enthusiast, and the folks at EV West in Southern California as well as the University of Michigan Battery Lab to see just how DIY Powerwalls can power your home, your car, and even the rest of your neighborhood. Jehu Garcia's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jehugarcia Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

If the processes powering the fusion reactor at the Sun's core could be recreated on Earth, it would be one of the most important events in the history of our species. Nuclear fusion power plants could end our dependency on fossil fuels and provide a virtually limitless, highly efficient source of clean energy. We went to two of the world's leading nuclear fusion research centers—Sandia National Labs in New Mexico and General Fusion outside Vancouver—to see how close we are to bringing the power of the stars down to Earth. Check out CNET's channel for more: http://bit.ly/2gpeXdr Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler tests whether he — as a novice — is able to replace the RAM in his brand new, 21.5 inch iMac. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

A mile under the Earth’s crust, inside the gold mines of South Africa, lie the deepest living animals on the planet. These creatures are called nematodes, and they’re the tiniest multicellular worms on Earth. The discovery of these worms thriving in extreme Earth environments previously deemed uninhabitable has opened up clues and implications for potential non-intelligent extraterrestrial life. The nematode that Belgian zoologist Gaetan Borgonie discovered was nicknamed the “Devil Worm,” because it was found over two miles underground at over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Check out CNET's channel for more: http://bit.ly/2gpeXdr Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

WATCH THE FIRST EPISODE NOW: http://bit.ly/2yuwDPF Check out CNET's channel: http://bit.ly/2gpeXdr Dear Future is Motherboard and CNET's new documentary series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us. Fusion energy, DIY off-grid energy systems, decentralized mesh networks, the search for life on other planets, and humanoid robots aren't far-off science fiction, they're breakthroughs that are happening right now. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The ubiquity of drones in the modern world has recently birthed a new sport: drone racing. Motherboard’s Erik Franco went to meet drone racing 'it' girl Zoe Stumbaugh as she prepares for a major race and competes with the fastest model she's ever built. WATCH NEXT: The Drone Engineer Helping Farmers Work Smarter - http://bit.ly/2y1Odqi Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

As we near the release of the iPhone 8, Motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Koebler, wanted to get a sneak peak so he ordered a dummy model from China. READ MORE: http://bit.ly/2wYlX8W Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Speed Daemons, we explore how Miami's natural environment and complex history led to its love affair with speedboats. We met with the racers, manufactures, and stuntmen who are the center of Miami's speedboat obsession. Our host manages to get to the heart of the story but loses his shirt in the process. See more 'Speed Daemons' on Go90: http://go90.show/2wktoss Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Speed Daemons, our host Derek Mead seeks to understand the individuals and machines that venture at high speeds through the brutal terrain of the Mojave desert. Derek gets some first hand experience of the desert with the help of legendary trophy trucker, BJ Baldwin, who drives our host at 120 miles an hour and soars 25 feet into the air. But to also tap into the history of desert off-roading, Derek spends some quality time with dune buggy spirit animal, Willie Kalajian, a man who's dedicated many decades of his life to living in the desert and fixin' up VW Bugs. In this episode we learn how the extreme conditions of the Mojave desert can create such incredible pieces of technology like trophy trucks and dune buggies and colorful characters like BJ and Willie. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The meteoric rise of ethereum has fueled something of a gold rush for people looking to get in on the action by mining ether themselves. This requires building a custom “mining” computer from scratch, which isn’t quite as hard as it sounds. In this how-to video, Motherboard contributor Daniel Oberhaus walks you through the step-by-step instructions for building an ethereum mining rig from the ground up. By the end of the tutorial you’ll be well on your way to mining ether and contributing to the maintenance of the ethereum network with your own computing power. MATERIALS LIST: (1) MSI Z-170a Motherboard - http://fave.co/2vGI3LV (2) 470rx Gigabyte graphics processing units - http://fave.co/2h0XzyP (2) powered risers - http://fave.co/2h19X22 (8) ½ in. aluminum angles, cut to 14 inches - http://fave.co/2h1a1P8 (5) ½ in. aluminum angles, cut to 24 inches - http://fave.co/2h1a1P8 (3) 1x2 wooden blocks - http://fave.co/2h1uyTJ (1) 1000 watt Corsair power supply unit - http://fave.co/2vH129p (1) Intel Celeron G3900 central processing unit - http://fave.co/2h132pH (1) 4 GB stick of RAM - http://fave.co/2vGLcvc (1) power switch - http://fave.co/2h0y0hE (1) ethernet cable - http://fave.co/2h1diOs (1) 16 GB USB stick - http://fave.co/2vGJMkk (1) computer monitor - http://fave.co/2vH9y8i (1) computer keyboard - http://fave.co/2vGPIK6 (1) computer mouse - http://fave.co/2h1iGRC (1) pack of zipties - http://fave.co/2h11I69 (36) self-driving screws - http://fave.co/2vGLjXP Disclosures: VICE Media earns a small commission on products sold through these links. Daniel Oberhaus owns and mines ethereum. Credit: The Noun Project Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Symbiotic, Motherboard travels to South Africa for a firsthand look at the traditional sangoma practice of smoking vulture brains, which has come under criticism from conservationists and sangomas alike who worry it's contributing to endangering certain species of Africa's vultures. WATCH NEXT: Curing Impotence with Endangered Frog Juice - http://bit.ly/2suFahH Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this Pilot of Math that Explains the World, Motherboard talks to Yaneer Bar Yam, founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute who used new physics based math to explain the correlation between food supply and the Arab Spring. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Most environmental issues are caused by the living but have you ever considered the environmental impact of death? Alkaline hydrolysis, a greener alternative to burial or flame-based cremation, uses a combination of water and potassium hydroxide to decompose bodies. It doesn’t require burial space, uses 1/12 the energy of traditional cremation and doesn’t produce toxic gases or air pollutants. Motherboard spoke to Terry Regnier at Mayo Clinic to find out more about the process. WATCH NEXT: Frozen Faith: Cryonics and The Quest to Cheat Death - http://bit.ly/2ratrkm Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Speed Daemons, host Derek Mead immerses himself in the underground culture of Los Angeles street racing. Taking an unexpected approach to this subject, we focus less on the legality of this LA pastime and more on the craftsmanship and inventiveness of how they build their cars. Taking a wider look, we use this subculture to understand how the urban landscape of Los Angeles created an environment ripe for a dystopian-like nightlife, where its streets are being repurposed for racing Frankenstein cars at speeds over 100 miles an hour. WATCH NEXT: Who Killed the Smart Gun? - http://bit.ly/2nZFErL Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Future Shock, Motherboard speaks to Steve De Jarnatt, writer and director of Miracle Mile, a "missiles in the air" doomsday sci-fi thriller from 1988 set in Los Angeles, as the country preps for nuclear annihilation. More than just a period flashback to cold war paranoia, this cult film feels eerily prescient of the current tone of nuclear escalation between North Korea and the US, and a warning to the future. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard visits a nuclear waste site near Kincardine, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Huron and a stone’s throw from the Great Lakes. We take you to the incinerators that turn waste into ash, and go inside glowing white rooms where row upon row of massive containers hold high-level nuclear waste—these containers are warm to the touch. Canada is debating what to do with it nuclear waste. Plant operators want to build an underground vault—a deep geological repository (DGR)—in which to stash the low- and intermediate-level waste: stuff like mop heads and machine parts. It would be the first of its kind in Canada if it goes ahead, and in this video, we travel to Kincardine and ask the mayor and local residents their thoughts on hosting a nuclear waste dump. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD WATCH NOW: POWER Ep 5: Meltdown http://bit.ly/2q2z5cp Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard takes you inside the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, just outside Toronto, which provides 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity. Stand next to the giant turbines. Hover on the edge of the glowing waste pool, where used-up nuclear fuel is kept. And go inside the control room that oversees everything around the clock, 24/7. Called “the Big Kahuna” of nuclear plants, Darlington is undergoing a $12 billion refurbishment so it can keep supplying nuclear energy to the grid for another 40 years. Public tours ended after 9/11 due to security concerns, but we are taking you inside. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard takes you inside the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, just outside Toronto, which provides 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity. Stand next to the giant turbines. Hover on the edge of the glowing waste pool, where used-up nuclear fuel is kept. And go inside the control room that oversees everything around the clock, 24/7. Called “the Big Kahuna” of nuclear plants, Darlington is undergoing a $12 billion refurbishment so it can keep supplying nuclear energy to the grid for another 40 years. Public tours ended after 9/11 due to security concerns, but we are taking you inside. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD WATCH NEXT: Exploring An Underground Dark Matter Lab in 360°: http://bit.ly/2lmuW0W Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard straps a camera to a helicopter and flies over the power-hungry city of Toronto and the two nearby nuclear plants: the Darlington and Pickering Nuclear Generating Facilities. Host Kate Lunau describes Ontario’s changing energy picture and why we’re relying so heavily on nuclear power to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, while taking a hard look at the problems that come with this reliance, including what to do with the waste. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard explores what would happen in the event of a nuclear catastrophe in Ontario, where millions of people live within an hour’s drive of a nuclear plant. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, residents within 10 kilometres of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Facility received anti-radiation pills to protect them in the event of a nuclear accident. We take you inside the emergency tents where gear is stashed to prepare for any possibility, and ask operators of these plants how likely it is we could see a nuclear meltdown in Ontario. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this 360/VR video, Motherboard goes inside the Pickering Nuclear Generating Facility, which is Canada’s oldest functioning nuclear plant. Critics say it’s time to shut the plant down. As of now, the Pickering plant is set to run to 2018, but operators have applied to extend the license to 2024, citing our growing energy needs. The nuclear plant is located in the middle of the growing community of Pickering, Ontario, where residents are torn over what to do about it. In this video, we join a protest on the beach, meet plant employees who trust its safety, and speak with residents who’ve just gotten used to living down the street from a nuclear plant. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

America is a gun culture. It always has been. With an estimated 260 to 300 million guns in the national gun stock today, firearms aren’t going anywhere. And it would appear the political will to craft robust nationwide gun control legislation remains dead in the water. But with an epidemic of mass shootings, and gun accidents devastating communities nationwide, a small movement seeks to change the very technology at the heart of firearms. Yet the players behind this movement to create user-authenticated firearms, or so-called smart guns that only fire in the hands of approved users, are blocked at every turn. A Smarter Gun, an original documentary investigation from VICE’s tech channel Motherboard, is the story of why. WATCH NEXT: The Gun That Aims Itself - http://bit.ly/2nHJAQN Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Learn about the subterranean worms hinting towards life on Mars: http://bit.ly/2yuwDPF Doug Vakoch is a former SETI member who founded METI International in 2015, an organization trying to craft and send targeted interstellar messages to extraterrestrials. However, his work has become the center of an international debate on whether humans should try to actively contact other lifeforms without global consensus. In the third episode of Exo, Motherboard goes to San Francisco to meet with Doug, and to hear from those who think his project is dangerous. WATCH NEXT: Tracking Bacteria on the Space Station Could Help Us Survive Beyond Earth: http://bit.ly/2ne7Ed7 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Exo, Dr. Chris Mason is using genetics to understand how humans might prepare for —and defend themselves against— life in space. As one of 10 investigators on NASA’s twin study with Scott and Mark Kelly, Chris examines how the human body changes in space at a molecular level. His quest to map the DNA of microorganisms on Earth and the International Space Station has revealed the vast and alien nature of life as we know it. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Lynn Rothschild is engineering microorganisms in her NASA lab to understand the potential for life on other planets. Using astrobiology and synthetic biology, Rothschild examines the origins and evolution of life on Earth to answer the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? According to Rothschild, probably not. Archival credits: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA AMES Research Center NASA Johnson Space Center NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies European Space Agency Photographers/Animators: ESO / C. Malin - Christopher Malin ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calcada ESO / C. Malin ESO / M. Kornmesser NASA, ESA, L. Calcada, Solar Dynamics Observatory ESA / Hubble (M. Kornmesser) ESA / Hubble (M. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The future of urban farming is in shipping containers. In this 360 video, Motherboard goes to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to visit a high-tech, hydroponic farming that's fueling a new food revolution. By growing energy-efficient, locally-sourced, and GMO-free greens for Brooklyn's immediate communities, the farmers of Square Roots are breaking away from the traditional, transport-heavy, industrial food system and blazing the trail for the future of super-efficient urban farming. WATCH NEXT: Exploring An Underground Dark Matter Lab in 360°: http://bit.ly/2lmuW0W Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St Paul, Minnesota is a yearly gathering of top engineers who face-off to see whose unmanned snowplowing robots can best clear the most snow, without any human intervention. WATCH NEXT: The Master Microfixer Teaching the World to Fix iPhones: http://bit.ly/2liHQZK Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Using her background in molecular genetics, Jessa has pioneered a new form of board-level iPhone repair. She's teaching the world to fix devices that no one, not even Apple, thought it was possible to fix. Follow Jessa Jones and iPad Rehab on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2mD1NL6 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this pilot episode to Motherboard's 360° Field Trips Series, we go to SNOLAB, an underground laboratory that studies groundbreaking neutrino and dark matter physics. Watch our documentary about SNOLAB: Inside the Dark Matter Lab Buried Over a Mile Underground - http://bit.ly/2l5jQJ2 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

SNOLAB, one of the world's premier laboratories, searches for dark matter, supernovas, and neutrinos 6,800 feet underground. Motherboard meets the scientists and staff who make this place a leader in research and scientific exploration. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

When Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi film The Running Man first premiered in 1987, it presented a dark vision of the US in the year 2017: economically depressed, ruled by the military, and obsessed with a reality TV show. It seemed far-fetched at the time, even to its creators. But on the eve of reality TV-star-turned President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it seems more timely and plausible than ever. Watch all the parallels between this retro sci-fi film and reality in our inaugural episode of Future Shock. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The world of plastic surgery is undergoing its own kind of facelift — of the social media kind. Today, there’s a small yet growing wave of surgeons who are sharing their surgeries with millions of viewers on social media in an effort to knock down the final frontier of privacy and show the world what really happens in the operating room. In this episode of My Life Online, we meet Dr. Matthew Schulman, one of Snapchat’s most popular plastic surgeons and the man behind the snapchat account @nycplasticsurg. We join him in the operating room as he broadcasts a tummy tuck surgery in order to demystify the procedure to his millions of followers. WATCH NEXT: Meet the Machinists Who Keep the New York Times Running: http://bit.ly/2gwRSDj Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking toward the margins of tech to find the people keeping older machines alive and running. In the first episode of State of Repair, we visited the New York Times printing plant to meet Greg Zerafa, Jerry Greaney, and Chris Bedetto, who are part of a dying breed of machinists that keeps the newspaper's eight three-story printing presses humming and spitting out hundreds of thousands of newspapers every single day. WATCH NEXT: The Cyborg Beetles Designed to Save Human Lives: http://bit.ly/2gZajCf Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In the future, we may have remote-controlled insects to reach places humans cannot. At least that's what Dr. Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer from Singapore, is hoping. Motherboard went to Dr. Sato's lab in Singapore to take one of his cyborg beetles for a test flight. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Located in the arctic circle, The Global Seed Vault isn't simply just a large storage facility for seeds from around the world. The vault is protecting the world's agricultural genetic diversity and protecting our future food supply in case of catastrophe. WATCH NEXT: The Lab That Simulates Bomb Blasts: http://bit.ly/2eO7apB Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Earlier this week, Dr. Kate Rubins safely returned to Earth from space. Today, MOTHERBOARD is interviewing her about her time aboard the International Space Station and what it means to be the first person ever to sequence DNA in space. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In this episode of Humans+, we meet Nicky Ashwell to learn about the technology behind her bionic hand and what the prosthetics of the future could look like. WATCH NEXT: This Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm Can Touch and Feel: http://bit.ly/2bShxqj Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Dr. Nakamatsu, colloquially known as Dr. NakaMats, claims to be the most prolific inventor in the world. He holds 3,500 patents and counting—more than any other inventor living or dead. He recently celebrated his 88th birthday and plans to live to 144, while dealing with his greatest challenge yet: treating his cancer. Motherboard met up with Dr. NakaMats at his birthday party to talk about the importance of inventing, and why he plans to keep innovating for another 60 years. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Virtual Reality isn’t new. But in today's luxury real estate market it’s giving the super rich a chance to tour properties without having to see them in person. For Motherboard's Luxury Week, we went to Manhattan to see how the wealthy use VR to buy multimillion dollar properties. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Most engineers try to keep things together. Dr Arun Shukla does the opposite. He tries to break them apart. He shoots bullets, sets off blasts and strikes things with mighty force all in the name of science. In this episodes of Lab Spaces, Motherboard visits Dr. Shukla and his lab in Rhode Island to break stuff and better understand fracture mechanics. WATCH NEXT: Do Nootropics Give Esports Gamers an Edge?: http://bit.ly/2d06hbM Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Nootropics, or smart drugs, were once the domain of a select few biohackers testing the limits of brain enhancement. But Nootropics are becoming more mainstream, leaving many to wonder what effect smart drugs will have on esports—one of the most rapidly growing spectator sports in the world, where cognitive enhancement could become a competitive advantage. In the third episode of Humans+, Motherboard goes to San Francisco to meet with Ben Watley and Alex Novosad, two members Gankstars, one of the first esports teams to be officially sponsored by a Nootropics company, to see how smart drugs could be a game changer in the world of professional gaming, and whether they will give gamers a competitive edge. WATCH NEXT: The Man Biohacking Encryption From His Garage: http://bit.ly/2bCaUsT Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Anything with a chip in it is vulnerable to attack. Your contactless credit card, your office key card, your passport—as more processes become automated, more opportunities open up to hackers. In the third episode of Can I Hack It?, made possible by Mr Robot on Amazon Prime, we visit Adam Laurie, better known by his hacker name Major Malfunction. Laurie specialises in hacking devices that use RFID, or radio frequency identification. He’s a white hat researcher who finds ways to hack into products in order to test their security, and he also runs the London chapter of the Defcon hacking community. From his home in the British countryside, Laurie tells us how hacking has changed over the decades and demonstrates just how easy it is to pull information from a contactless card or clone a passport—but he promises he’s deleted the details he hacked from us. WATCH NEXT: The Man Biohacking Encryption From His Garage: http://bit.ly/2bCaUsT Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

A pioneer in the biohacking scene since the mid-2000s, Amal Graafstra's been experimenting with RFID implants for more than a decade. Now Graafstra is developing implants that go beyond RFIDs. In episode 2 of Humans+, Motherboard travels to his company Dangerous Things' garage headquarters to get an early look at UKI, a prototype implant focused on encryption that's expected to be released in 2017. Amal hopes that this technology will bring us one step closer to merging our physical and digital identities, but how will society react to having these technologies implanted beneath our skin? WATCH NEXT: This Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm Can Touch and Feel: http://bit.ly/2bShxqj Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In the first episode of Humans+, Motherboard dives into the world of future prosthetics, and the people working on closing the gap between man and machine. We follow Melissa Loomis, an amputee from Ohio, who had experimental nerve reversal surgery and is going to Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab to test out its latest Modular Prosthetic Limb, a cutting-edge bionic arm funded in part by DARPA. Neuro-interfacing machinery is a game changer in terms rehabilitating patients, but what possibilities do these advancements open for the future? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

While all eyes were on Pittsburgh-based biotechnology startup Grindhouse Wetware, biohacker Amal Graafstra was quietly building the world's first implant-activated smart gun inside his Washington garage. Graafstra, who's been active in the DIY bodyhacking scene since the mid-2000s, recently granted Motherboard an exclusive look at the prototype inside the garage headquarters of Dangerous Things, a biohacking company he's run out of his home since 2013. WATCH NEXT: Who Killed the Smart Gun? - http://bit.ly/2nZFErL Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

You think about securing your laptop, but what about your desk phone, monitor, or printer? In the second episode of Can I Hack It?, made possible by Mr Robot on Amazon Prime, white hat hacker Ang Cui demonstrates hacks on “embedded devices”—objects that contain computing systems but that you wouldn’t necessarily think of as computers. At his office in New York, Cui shows us how he can turn an office phone or printer into a bugging device using a piece of malware he calls “funtenna.” This exploit makes the equipment transmit data over radio frequencies so it can be picked up by an antenna—without the hacker ever having to go near the device. It’s a pretty high-level hack, but as Cui says, if he’s thought of it, you can imagine someone else has. Click here to watch Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime: http://amzn.to/29zli1w Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

The Swedish Fish Theory is an idea born of Reddit that suggests that packaging candy when sending in items for repair can lead to a quicker turnaround and better service. Motherboard's Joseph Neighbor meets with the originators of the theory, those that have tested it, and experts in behavioral economics to see if this personal touch in an otherwise impersonal interaction really changes anything. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

In the future, your surgeon could be a machine. Teleoperated surgical robots can be controlled from a distance to operate on patients in hard-to-reach places. But as information travels between a human on one side of the world and a robot on the other, it’s vulnerable to attack. In the first episode of our series ‘Can I Hack It?’, made possible by Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime, Motherboard visits researchers at the University of Washington who are exploring how teleoperated surgical robots could be hacked—so they can spot vulnerabilities before human patients are at risk. We get hands on with the RAVEN II surgical robot and find out for ourselves how difficult it is to control when a hacker takes over. Could we be risking assassination by hacker? Watch Mr. Robot on Amazon Prime: http://amzn.to/29zli1w WATCH NEXT: Greatest Moments in Hacking History: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace: http://bit.ly/1P59xNw Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Bertrand Piccard is a dreamer. The Swiss psychiatrist, inspired by a family lineage of explorers and innovators, holds the record for the first non-stop balloon flight across the globe, with partner Brian Jones. Now, along with his partner André Borschberg, he also holds the distinction of completing the first ever Trans-Atlantic solar powered flight with the innovative experimental aircraft, Solar Impulse 2. WATCH NEXT America's Ex-Drone Pilot: http://bit.ly/29lvcn6 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

For decades residents of Reunion, a small French Territory in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lived in relative harmony with the surrounding ocean and its inhabitants. However, since 2011, a rise in shark attacks has forced many to come to terms with the spike in fatal encounters with sharks and turn to science to address this unexplained phenomenon In the full length documentary of "Surrounded: Island of the Sharks", Motherboard watches the full saga unfold. Presented by The Shallows. In Theaters Now. https://youtu.be/EgdxIlSuB70 WATCH NEXT: The Search for New Antibiotics Under the Sea: http://bit.ly/28SbFOR Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Since 2011, Réunion Island, a tiny French territory in the Indian Ocean has been dealing with a shark problem of a magnitude they’ve never encountered before. But rather than accept their situation, the residents of Réunion are turning to science to deal with the root of the problem, and to better understand the reasons behind the sharks' unexpected behavior. WATCH PART 1: http://bit.ly/28Nbu30 Presented by: The Shallows. In Theaters Friday, June 24. https://youtu.be/EgdxIlSuB70 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

For years, the residents of Réunion, a small island off the coast of Madagascar, have lived in coexistence with the vast ocean and its shark inhabitants that surround it. But since 2011, the number of shark attacks has increased to the point of crisis for the small island, leaving many puzzled as to what changed. In part one of this documentary, Motherboard investigates the potential ecological and man-made causes for this recent spike in contact between humans and sharks, and its impact on the evolving complexity of the relationship between man and nature on this tiny island. Presented by The Shallows. In Theaters June 24. https://youtu.be/EgdxIlSuB70 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

On July 4th, 1996, aliens attacked our planet, destroying our cities. The Las Vegas Ruins Tourism Board welcomes you to come to Vegas and experience a vacation like no other. Presented by Independence Day: Resurgence. In theaters June 24th. his content was paid for by the advertising partner and created in collaboration with VICE creative services, independently from the Motherboard editorial staff. WATCH NEXT: What Do Kids Think of the Internet?: http://bit.ly/1VZBA87 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Concept/Scriptwriting: Romain Thomassin Production: Emma Starzacher Directed By: Ghost+Cow

This short form Motherboard discussion series poses the question as to why certain objects are still relevant in society. Why haven't certain objects or technologies been modified or enhanced? Is it simply because they work? This pilot episode questions why we still use paper checks. Motherboard's Kaleigh Rogers interviews Quartz columnist Matt Phillips, writer of the Atlantic article "The Spectacular Decline of Checks." Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

We often talk about science and the future, but what do kids actually think about the future? After all, they will be the ones living it. In this pilot episode, Motherboard talks to kids about the Internet. WATCH NEXT: Technocatharsis - Neill Blomkamp Frees Himself from His Monitors: http://bit.ly/1P6PXk1 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

What happens when you ask Motherboard readers to send you snail mail from the internet? After sending out a request to readers for packages, Motherboard's own Jason Koebler intends to find out. In this Pilot episode of I'll Open Anything, Jason is joined by Motherboard Growth team member, Evan Rodgers, to open our first package with smelly results. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Our relationship with technology is tenuous at best. We increasingly depend on it to live, but it can also ruin our lives. In this pilot episode of Techno Catharsis we go to Vancouver to meet up with sci-fi film director Neill Blomkamp of District 9 fame to run over his laptop with a hummer, and to talk about why this hateful device is ruining his life. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

In this pilot episode of Greatest Moments in Hacking History, hacker Samy Kamkar talks about the time he created a worm in 2005 and accidentally took down Myspace. WATCH NEXT: Is Uber Killing the Yellow Taxi in New York City?: http://bit.ly/25xMeW4 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Motherboard is known for its award-winning documentaries (and we'll continue to put them out, we promise) but this week, we wanted to try something new. How can we explore our favorite topics in science and technology in different video formats? Join us as we introduce pilot episodes for five new experimental series. You'll see animated hacking, pontifications on obsolete technology, a certain sci-fi director confront his complicated relationship with computers, and more. PILOTS: 1:35: I'll Open Anything 5:00: Whiz Kids 8:50: Greatest Moments in Hacking History 14:20: Why Is This Still a Thing? 18:57: Technocatharsis We'll roll out a different pilot episode each day this week here and on Motherboard.vice.com. So go ahead and join us, and let us know what you think: [email protected]. Welcome to Motherboard's inaugural Pilot Week. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Which of These Five Shows Should Motherboard Make More Of? : http://bit.ly/281mpA3 A trailer for Motherboard's Pilot Week, a weeklong release of short form experimental videos. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

As Uber's stranglehold over the taxi industry increases, some New York yellow cab dispatchers have found themselves in an unprecedented predicament: sitting on millions of dollars worth of medallion yellow cabs, but not enough drivers to drive them. WATCH NEXT: Stress Testing Drones in a High-Tech Wind Vortex: http://bit.ly/1THE7Ea Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

As drones are becoming more commonplace in cities, so are drone accidents. People are crashing their brand new toys and flying them places they shouldn’t be like crazy. Part of this is thanks to the complex wind environments in built-up areas, which can make drones go out of control. In the latest episode of Lab Spaces, Motherboard's Jordan Pearson visits WINDEEE, the world’s first hexagonal wind testing chamber where scientists are pushing drones to their limits in order to learn how to make drones safer in the future. WATCH NEXT: Frozen Faith: Cryonics and The Quest to Cheat Death: http://bit.ly/1XjcfpN Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

What if we could use technology to cheat death? It's an idea that seems like science fiction, but for a small group of people known as cryonicists, the hope of one day being able to successfully freeze and re-animate a person after death remains something worth fighting for. In Frozen Faith, Motherboard explores the world of cryonics, and meets the people who embrace the notion that one day technology will become sophisticated enough that we can actually cheat death. Is this modernity’s antidote to death or just pseudo-science, inspired by sci-fi? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Clad in scuba gear, with an air tank attached to his back, a casual observer might mistake William Fenical for a particularly intrepid archaeologist. But rather than examining the artifacts hidden away at the bottom of the sea Bill is looking for antibiotics to save human lives. In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard meets Fenical and his team at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to learn about the future of antibiotics, and speak to specialists and researchers about just how important these discoveries are to ensuring a future of the human race against the ever growing threat of resistant disease. WATCH NEXT: Meet the Scientists Hunting Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes: http://bit.ly/26dK9jp Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

About the size of Central Park and a few miles off the coast of Long Island, Plum Island houses the nation's only laboratory that is capable of conducting live research of foot-and-mouth disease, a highly contagious animal disease that hasn't struck the US with an outbreak since 1929. Because of this, visitors are strictly forbidden unless they've received security protocol from the Department of Homeland Security. The lab's very location on an island was intentional when it was built in 1954: so nothing reaches its shore, and nothing leaves. Motherboard gets a rare peek inside the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, and speaks to the scientists tasked with developing foot-and-mouth disease vaccines at one of the most protected labs in the world. WATCH NEXT: Meet the Scientists Hunting Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes: http://bit.ly/1VqyjP5 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The mosquito is historically one of the most deadly animals on the planet, spreading epidemics such Dengue, Malaria, and now Zika at alarming rates. In this episode of Symptomatic, Motherboard travels to the front lines of the fight to contain the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the deadly carrier of diseases that have plagues humanity such as Dengue, Yellow Fever, Chikunguna, and now Zika. From a high tech firm in the UK working to genetically turn the mosquito on itself, to the people working day and night in Houston Texas to keep the mosquito from spreading the disease to the US, can we ever defeat these disease carrying mosquitos, or will we have to live with them forever? WATCH NEXT: Worshipping Immortality at the Church of Perpetual Life: http://bit.ly/1V27h0y Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

WATCH PART 1 NOW: http://bit.ly/1Sb0sGx For as long as humans have existed, we’ve have had a complicated and deadly relationship with disease and contagion. But our battle with pathogens is only beginning, and in fact it’s getting more and more complicated. With the advent of better transportation, exponentially increasing urbanization, unequal development, and rapidly evolving microbes and viruses, our largest, and perhaps most deadly, epidemics are still to come. In our three-part documentary series Symptomatic, Motherboard dives into the world of disease prevention and containment. From scientists working around the clock to curb the spread of the Zika virus, to the people hunting the oceans for new life-saving antibiotics, to those working in high risk facilities to keep deadly livestock diseases out of the US, we meet the people responsible keeping us safe from the next catastrophic outbreak. Episode 1 Premieres 4/13 Episode 2: 4/15 Episode 3: 4/19 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

What if immortality was possible? Motherboard explores a unique church in the heart of Hollywood, Florida where the parishioners believe that immortality is attainable through the progression of science and technology. In addition to physical eternal life, they also believe that technology will advance to the point that humans will no longer have to endure the setbacks of a biological body through having their consciousness digitized into a computer. We spend time with Bill Faloon, the founder of the church and former embalmer who feels that mankind's biggest initiative should be defeating aging and death. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Action Bronson visits a high-tech dabs lab in this deleted scene from F*CK, THAT'S DELICIOUS on VICELAND. WATCH NEXT: New Friends in Strange Places (F*CK, THAT'S DELICIOUS Episode 2): http://bit.ly/1nUzHer Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Released in the early 1980s, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was once a powerhouse in home computing. With a library consisting of mostly educational games, Hunt The Wumpus, a map-based puzzle/adventure game, always stood out. Abandonware returns to analyze Hunt The Wumpus, the TI-99/4A, and the mysterious life story of Wumpus' creator and self-proclaimed Neo-Neuro-Cyber-Shaman, Gregory Yob. WATCH NEXT: 'Connected' - A Sci-Fi Short Starring Pamela Anderson: http://bit.ly/1o2ceZx Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

WATCH THE FULL LENGTH FILM: http://bit.ly/1T0oNjb Connected is a portrait of a woman grappling with aging, self-perception, and transformation in a technologically optimized world. Jackie (Pamela Anderson) is a burnt-out AuraCycle instructor in the midst of a midlife crisis. She's obsessed with self-improvement podcasts (voiced by Jane Fonda), and she is soon drawn to an advanced yet enigmatic wellness spa that promises to enhance her mind, body and soul. Guided by her effortless and nubile mentor, Luna (Dree Hemingway), Jackie will give up anything to feel “connected" -- to herself, to the future, and to a precarious sense of perfection. The full film will premiere on Motherboard on Monday, February 8, as part of Motherboard Visions, our new and ongoing initiative to showcase the future of film. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Motherboard writer Daniel Oberhaus is livestreaming his nightly rest as a tribute to You'll Sleep When You're Dead, a series about the future of sleep. See more stories here: http://motherboard.vice.com/youll-sleep-when-youre-dead Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The KiraVan is meant to be the ultimate exploration vehicle—a ’Swiss army knife on wheels.’ A pet project for designer Bran Ferren, who named the van after his daughter Kira, the KiraVan also acts as a test bed for travel tech and vehicle engineering. In the latest episode of Voyager, made possible by KAYAK.co.uk, Motherboard visits Ferren in LA county to see his souped-up caravan, which comes complete with everything from cameras and thermal imagers to an accompanying motorbike hoisted on the back. Formerly president of R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering, Ferren’s certainly not short of ideas to add to his design. After a tour, we take the KiraVan for a test drive. Could this be our ride to far-flung destinations in the future? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

For the past decade, Vint Cerf has worked at Google as the company's vice president and chief internet evangelist. But in the 1970s Cerf co-invented some of the technologies and standards that underpinned the creation of the internet, and are still in use today. Motherboard sat down with the Father of the Internet at a charity event benefiting the Canadian Hearing Society to talk about data breaches, the Internet of Things, and how companies such as Google are working on new initiatives to close the digital divide. Watch Next - The City That Has Its Own Operating System: http://bit.ly/1mfLBPu Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

After injecting himself with ancient bacteria found in Russian permafrost, Anatoli Brouchkov says he feels healthier than ever before. But the geocryologist admits that his self-administered treatment was a stunt; the real science happens in his lab at Moscow State University, where he analyzes strains of bacteria to tease out the keys to longevity. We caught up with Brouchkov while he was in Canada recently, investigating Arctic permafrost, to talk about everything from everlasting life and whether ancient bacteria could be the key to longevity to 3.5 million year old bacteria-infused martinis. Zazdarovje! Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Now it’s easy enough to book a flight to anywhere in the world, the tourism industry has its sight on the next frontier: space travel. In the second episode of our Voyager series, made possible by KAYAK.co.uk, Motherboard explores the existing space tourism industry to get a glimpse of where we might be holidaying in the future. We visit space travel agency Space Adventures, meet a space tourist who travelled to the International Space Station, and get the closest possible to space travel on Earth: a zero-gravity flight. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos @avantgrant @fergusonben #followers

Acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks spoke to Motherboard in 2012, in this previously unreleased animated excerpt. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/oliver-sacks-on-the-kind-of-hallucination-he-would-liked-to-have-had Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The Internet of Things is advancing on a metropolitan scale, with citywide sensors able to track everything from pollution to crime. In the UK, the Bristol Is Open project is a pioneering effort to connect all these streams of data into one “programmable city.” In the first episode of the UK Motherboard Show, made possible by CISCO, we visit Bristol to see the newly networked metropolis. We’re then joined in the studio by Bristol’s Director of Futures Stephen Hilton, Internet of Things designer Anab Jain, and former hacker Jake Davis to discuss our hyperconnected future. What are the benefits of digitising our daily urban lives? Will we have to compromise our privacy or security to access them? The Bristol project shows that smart cities aren’t on their way, they’re already here—and we need to decide how we want them to shape our lives. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

If there’s one place on Earth you can already get a glimpse of our robot-assisted future, it’s Japan. Routinely at the forefront of robotics research, the country has brought us some of the weirdest automatons, most lifelike androids, and cutest helper-bots. Nowhere is this more evident than at Nagasaki’s Henn-na Hotel, a hotel run by robots that opened this year. Walk into reception and a mechanised dinosaur will guide you through check-in; go to your room and a luggage bot will wheel your suitcase along beside you; get ready for bed and your own robot companion will turn out the lights. Henn-na Hotel CEO Hideo Sawada sells his offering as part of a utopian vision where robots take over manual labour so humans can turn their attention to more creative pursuits. Replacing staff with robots might reduce labour costs, but their appeal to visitors needs to last beyond novelty value. Motherboard host Ben Ferguson checks into the robot hotel in the first episode of our new travel series Voyager, made possible by travel tool KAYAK (http://www.kayak.co.uk/). The robot workers he meets are courteous and communicative, but can they emulate the human warmth of their flesh-and-blood counterparts? Could robots really be our future holiday companions, or do man and machine ultimately get lost in translation? WATCH NEXT: The US Military's Robot World Championship - http://bit.ly/1PGsLNt Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

In this episode of Lab Spaces, Motherboard visits a former bomb shelter that’s now home to colonies of mosquitoes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Researcher Sarah Kelly rears the mosquitoes from egg to adult so they can be used for testing products such as repellents and insecticides that could someday help prevent the spread of deadly diseases. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Since the first European colonists set foot in Manhattan in the 1600s, New York City has been losing the war on rats. A recent estimate put the number of rats at around 2 million, about a quarter of the city’s human population, and any efforts to prune that population down have seen limited success. Rats continue to infest basements, parks, and apartment buildings, chewing through car wiring and the city’s underground communications, and although reports of rats starting a new plague epidemic may be exaggerated, they do undermine quality of life and cause a lot of costly damage. But now, an aggressive commitment to rounding up these highly unpopular rodents is finally showing real results thanks to a new strategy dedicated to getting inside the rats’ heads—finding their burrows and targeting them in their nests. In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard meets up with Matthew Frye, an urban entomologist at Cornell University’s integrated pest management program. He’s going to show us how we can use learn from animal behavior to hunt rats. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Abandonware is a new show that showcases the strange, forgotten artifacts from videogaming's past. On this episode we go in-depth on one of the weirdest videogames to ever get a major release - Sega's Seaman for Dreamcast. A life simulator that requires a microphone peripheral to control, this game takes our hosts over three weeks in real-time to finish. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

This DIY surveillance camera will scan your face, then speak aloud what it sees. We brought the tech into the streets. Read More on MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/1NklqAY WATCH NEXT: Is DIY Brain Shocking the Future of Therapy? http://bit.ly/1KGq7pN Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

We've all experienced brain freezes, more commonly known as the ice cream headache. One minute you're enjoying a frozen treat, and the next you're doubled over, wondering where it all went wrong. At least we thought everyone experienced these inexplicable cold induced headaches until we found out that one of Motherboard's staffers has never had a brain freeze. Is it possible to avoid this strange and painful phenomena? We decided to design a slushy-slurping challenge to find out. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a film that's just about what it sounds like: Three scouting friends and a cocktail waitress team up to save the world from zombie doom. We here at Motherboard are stoked that our friends at Paramount hooked us up with the trailer, and hope you enjoy it. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse hits theaters October 30. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

In this episode of Upgrade, Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The world's largest crude oil transporter has a secret buried deep in the Great Lakes—two aging oil pipelines that transport 23 million gallons of crude oil through the largest body of fresh water on earth. Enbridge, the company that operates the pipelines, insists that the two 20-inch pipelines stretching across the Straits of Mackinac could last indefinitely. But one look at the company’s environmental record tells another story: Enbridge had more than 800 spills in North America between 1999 and 2010, dumping nearly 6.8 million gallons of oil. The largest spill released one million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, only a few hours drive away from the Mackinac Straits. Activists and advocates have independently verified that parts of the pipeline—built in 1953—are sitting unsupported on the bottom of the lake and in major need of repair. Motherboard travels to Michigan—oil spill central—to investigate the threats of crude oil being transported through one of the largest freshwater ecosystems in the world by a company with one of the most egregious environmental records. WATCH NEXT: The Magnetic Wand That Cleans Oil Spills - http://bit.ly/1Mi0SZf Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Brandon Bryant, a former drone pilot and sensor operator for the of the US Air Force, quit his job after 5 years of being in the Drone Program left him emotionally traumatized. In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard speaks with Brandon about his feelings of responsibility for the remote killings of people with predator drones, its connection to Germany's drone program, and why ultimately drone warfare makes us lose our humanity. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Before GIFs and net art, there was Telidon. Telidon was a protocol invented in Canada in the late 1970s that let people dial in to central servers over the phone lines to view computer graphics on their TV sets. Telidon was mainly meant for online shopping and banking, but it wasn’t all business. Artists in Toronto obtained one of the desk-sized computers used to create Telidon graphics and formed a thriving community around it before Telidon disappeared in the mid 80s. We catch up with the original Telidon artists and find out what it was like to be a true pioneer in the world of art made with machines. Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that strapping electrodes to your head and running a small amount of electrical current through it can actually help it perform better. It’s a field called transcranial direct current stimulation, and it’s getting very popular with the DIY community—all it takes is a 9-volt battery, a current regulator, and some electrodes. Motherboard’s Jason Koebler purchased a tDCS device from Reddit for a couple bucks, but it was daunting to strap something an internet stranger sent him to his head. So, he went to Brooklyn College to meet with Elizabeth Chua, a scientist researching how tDCS affects memory. Chua talked about the potential medical benefits of using tDCS, demonstrated her research-grade device, and helped him try out the DIY Reddit brain shocker. Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Watch Next: A Monkey Head Transplant - http://bit.ly/1K7LgYY Teen Plans to Cheat Death by Freezing His Brain: http://bit.ly/1I2Quou Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The world’s larger particle collider is back in action and colliding particles at greater energies than ever before. We visit the scientists hoping that the unprecedented power could lead to evidence for theories like supersymmetry—brand new physics that could shed light on some of the remaining mysteries of the universe. Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d MOTHERBOARD goes behind the scenes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in Los Angeles, where teams behind the world's most advanced search and rescue robots compete for millions of dollars in prize funding from the US Department of Defense. Think of it as Game 7 of the World Series of ground-based, semi-autonomous robots, two of which we first met while filming our documentary INHUMAN KIND. Which robot will come out on top, and which robots will crack under the pressure? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Motherboard spends a day with Martin Cooper, the father of the first ever portable, handheld cell phone. If I were the brains behind a revolutionary invention that would reshape the world as we know it, I’d brag about it to everyone, but not before rubbing it in the face of my fiercest competitor. And that’s almost exactly what Martin “Marty” Copper, inventor of the cell phone, did when he created the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the world’s first ever handheld portable telephone. It was 1973 and Marty was walking through the streets of New York as journalists faithfully watched him make the first handheld mobile phone call to none other than AT&T’s cellular network engineer and chief nemesis in the cellular race, Joel Engel. Marty revealed to us that when Joel picked up there was silence at the other end of the line, “I suspected he was gritting his teeth,” Marty says with a light-hearted smile and a grain of cheekiness. After that moment, our way of communicating as a society—from butt-dials to GIF texts—would never be the same again. The World Health Organization once described cell phones as “possibly carcinogenic” but that hasn’t hindered cell phones from overtaking our planet’s total population; making Marty’s legendary creation a hallmark of modern man’s innovation akin to that of the wheel. The cell phone was mainly born out of a dissatisfaction with the constraints of the car phone. Early on, Marty and his associates at Motorola knew the future of telephony lied in mobility. Up until 1973, mobile cellular telephony was tethered to vehicles. Placing and receiving calls from a car was a game-changer at the time but Marty disliked the idea of having to be in a car in order to make a call on-the-go. “Freedom means you can talk anywhere,” he says. The forefather of mobile communications hasn’t stopped looking forward. His vision of future cell phones range from personal servers implanted in our bodies, to artificial intelligence and the obsolescence of apps. At one point in our interview, Marty breaks the fourth wall, addressing our cameras directly: “Instead of us looking for the app, the app ought to find us,” he says with a glint of eureka in his eyes. As we celebrated his past innovation and joked about today’s relentless mobile connectivity, it was clear that 86-year-old Marty Cooper had a zest for the future that was undeniable. After all, that’s where we’ll spend the rest of our lives, in the future, probably hunched over our cellphones. Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Crowd-funding campaigns can raise money for some pretty wacky projects, such as asteroid defense or images of brains on LSD. But rarely do you hear of campaigns raising funds for military equipment. Enter the People’s Project, a volunteer-led organization based in Ukraine that has a section currently raising funds for a military drone. Check Out the Drones, Robots, Rockets and Bombs Playlist: http://bit.ly/1LnR9OT Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Motherboard meets John Romero, one of the creators behind Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and Quake, breakthrough games that all but created the first-person shooter genre. Watch Episode 1: Meet The Programmer Behind 'Centipede' - http://bit.ly/1BscC3q Read: 'Brutal Doom' Makes One of the Best Games Ever Made Even Better - http://bit.ly/1AwFdtI Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Here at Motherboard, we've been watching the emerging hobby-sport of first-person drone racing ever since we first strapped on VR goggles in the Bronx, New York, and flew tiny robots across a park in the middle of winter. That's why, when we heard Canada's first organized drone racing would be taking place in a town called Clinton, Ontario, in rural Canada, we sent VICE Canada's Patrick McGuire to document the festivities. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Dona Bailey was the software developer and programmer behind Atari's 1982 shoot' em up game Centipede, and although her name might not immediately ring a bell, her impact on video game culture has. In this episode of "Hello World" Motherboard heads to Arkansas to speak to Bailey about being a video game pioneer and how she came to develop one of the most well known and formative games in history. Up Next: Simulating a Climate-Changed Earth Atop the Seinfeld Diner - http://bit.ly/1IBnvGb Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d NASA’s top climate scientists study some of the world’s most advanced computer models in the same building that Jerry Seinfeld once ordered cereal for lunch. The Goddard Institute for Space Studies is perhaps the nation’s premier climatology hub, and it’s where director Gavin Schmidt attempts to predict what, exactly, will happen as humanity loads the earth with planet­ scorching greenhouse gases. In this Transmissions short, we’ll sit down with Schmidt, who has been director since 2013, when he took over for the grandfather of climate science James Hansen, to discuss what makes a good model—how they work, how accurate they are, and what kind of technology goes into making them what they are. Also: Do they say we’re doomed? Read the full piece on Motherboard - http://bit.ly/1IBnvGb Read: A Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Is Thinning From Two Sides and Now We Know Why - http://bit.ly/1KJGJs4 Watch Next: Up Next: The Researcher Who Chases Drunk Fish with Robots - http://bit.ly/1cx96P2 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Nicole Angemi aka @mrs_angemi (https://instagram.com/mrs_angemi) is a pathologist’s assistant in real life, but online she owns one of Instagram's most controversial accounts, posting photos from autopsies in order to educate people about the human body. In this episode of My Life Online, Motherboard goes to New Jersey to visit Ms. Angemi to talk about her mission as Instagram's most famous coroner and about those who would like her account deleted. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d The Hurt Locker got it only partly right. Just ask Brian Castner, a former bomb technician with the US military. He served three tours in the Middle East, two of which were spent leading an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, and deployed small remote-controlled robots to battle a blitz of insurgent-rigged car bombs and improvised explosive devices in and around Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2006. Castner and his crew grew so reliant on these machines, which can disarm explosives from afar, that they considered them part of the team. Years later, does he still feel an attachment to the machines? We met Castner to find out. Up Next: The Dawn of Killer Robots - http://bit.ly/1HqRnVk Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

When Professor Maurizio Porfiri looks at fish, he sees more than just a bunch of aquatic animals - he sees an animal that could someday replace the rat as the key to better studying and understanding human and animal behaviors in laboratory research. But fish can be unpredictable, which is why Porfiri has dedicated his life's work to building the ultimate robotic fish. Up Next: The Dawn of Killer Robots - http://bit.ly/1HqRnVk Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA’s six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It’s a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race. Read Now: The Evil 'Star Wars' Robot Who Owns the Term 'Meatbag' - http://bit.ly/1Hy6KLU Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Watch the full length documentary here: http://bit.ly/1yCE0zW Robots. They’re here, they’re getting smart, and some, at least, are being outfitted to kill. Should we meatbags be worried? Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Right now, in the 21st century, South Korean scientists are actually working to resurrect the prehistoric woolly mammoth using cloning technology and the flesh of perfectly preserved specimen once buried in Northern Siberia. The hope is that if they can find an active cell from the meaty leg of a 40,000 year old frozen mammoth, it could hold the keys to bringing back the extinct species. At the same time, shady tusk hunting Siberians looking for mammoth ivory support the Korean cloning project, by discovering frozen mammoths in the quickly melting permafrost of the Russian Far North. This bizarre supply chain inspired us to travel to Seoul, Yakutsk, and Moscow, to learn about humanity’s quest to both profit from, and clone, the legendary woolly mammoth. Read More: Cloning a Mammoth is Only the Start: http://bit.ly/1PjU7ap Up Next: The Fight for Whale Hunting in the Faroe Islands: http://bit.ly/Whale-Hunting Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

WATCH NOW ON MONTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/1FheGS0 Right now, in the 21st century, South Korean scientists are actually working to resurrect the prehistoric woolly mammoth using cloning technology and the flesh of perfectly preserved specimen once buried in Northern Siberia. The hope is that if they can find an active cell from the meaty leg of a 40,000 year old frozen mammoth, it could hold the keys to bringing back the extinct species. At the same time, shady tusk hunting Siberians looking for mammoth ivory support the Korean cloning project, by discovering frozen mammoths in the quickly melting permafrost of the Russian Far North. This bizarre supply chain inspired us to travel to Seoul, Yakutsk, and Moscow, to learn about humanity’s quest to both profit from, and clone, the legendary woolly mammoth. Full documentary premieres April 8th. Up Next: The Fight for Whale Hunting in the Faroe Islands: http://bit.ly/Whale-Hunting Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

There’s not much agriculture in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North Atlantic, roughly equidistant from Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. Aside from the sheep that freely roam the fjords and a few root vegetables, the Faroese have always relied on the surrounding sea as a source of fish, seabirds, and the pilot whales they slaughter in a hunt known as the grindadráp, or grind. "Grind,” which rhymes with wind, is Faroese for pilot whale, and can refer to the event of the whale slaughter, the whale meat, or the whales themselves. Hunting whales for food is a tradition as old as the islands have been inhabited. But in the past few decades, animal activists have taken issue with the grind, despite Faroese insistence that it is sustainable and humane. Motherboard visited the Faroe Islands to see a grind first hand as the Faroese defend their way of life against pressure from a visiting Sea Shepherd operation. Read more here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fight-for-whale-hunting-in-the-faroe-islands-inside-the-grind Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The Faroe Islands are a tiny archipelago in the North Atlantic, and those who live there have always relied on the sea to survive. This includes seabirds, fish, and pilot whales, which the Faroese hunt for food in a slaughter they call "the grind." In recent years, activists from the conservation organization Sea Shepherd have conducted extensive campaigns in the islands to attempt to stop the grind. In the summer of 2014, we went to the Faroes to see for ourselves how the rural realities of Faroese life conflict with environmentalist idealism, and how the ancient hunting tradition continues to play out in an increasingly modernizing world. Up Next: Peru's Erection Dealers - http://bit.ly/Perus-Erection-Dealers Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d As we race into the future of space travel, electric cars, and high impact sports, some of our biggest challenges are not actually how we design our future modes of transportation but what we actually build them with. It’s a brave new world, and with a new world, we need new materials. Unlike its soft padded equivalent, syntactic foam may be the material key to protecting ourselves in the future. Read more about the future of material science on Motherboard: http://bit.ly/Shark-Dick Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

When we first met drone designer Andy Shen, he was standing in a freezing park in the Bronx, zipping his mini quadcopter around at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour in a first person view drone race. But there was more buzzing around the park that day than just his quadcopter. The pilots there were stoked about a secret project Shen had been working on for months: The world's first-ever Nerf-disc shooting drone. Late last month, Shen finally got the production model of his Blast quadcopter, and he agreed to let us test it out in an empty warehouse in Brooklyn (it's been too windy and miserable in New York to fly outdoors). The Blast has the potential to be a game changer. When Shen and rival racer and drone designer Ryan Gury spoke to us last time, they hinted that racing was just the first part of what would become a new sport. Once drones were (safely) armed, Mario Kart-style races, with projectiles and obstacles would be possible, they said. Shen's drone is a step toward that future. Shen and Gury went head-to-head in the world's first ever drone dogfight, and, while there wasn't really a winner owing to the warehouse's difficult flying conditions, it certainly seems like we could be watching the beginning stages of a new sport. MORE DRONES FROM MOTHERBOARD: This Is How You Race a Drone in the Snow: http://bit.ly/1AVIuR0 The Iranian Drone That Saves Lives: http://bit.ly/1uwofEO Dive-Bombing Drone Confronts Goose Poop: http://bit.ly/1zHDUFc Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

Electric cars seem like the perfect solution to reducing smog and our dependence on oil, except for one thing: Batteries just aren't all that great. While fast-charging systems like Tesla's Supercharger network can help, Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde in the Netherlands is looking at the problem from a different angle. Why are we focusing on the vehicles and not the roads themselves? After all, roadways are ubiquitous, and have the potential to be transformed into smarter, responsive interfaces. Enter the Smart Highway, a collaboration between Studio Roosegaarde and Dutch construction company Heijmans that introduces a prototype for what could eventually become the road of tomorrow. Up Next: Inside A Chinese Bitcoin Mine - http://bit.ly/Chinese-Bitcoin-Mine Beaver Slayers of Patagonia - http://bit.ly/Beaver-Slayers China's Smog-Sucking Vacuum - http://bit.ly/smog-vacuum Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

What is the future of technology? And how will it change everything? In the last 100 years technology has shown what the world looks like from the surface of the moon. It's unlocked the building blocks of life, connected the world in an instant, and doubled human lifespan. In a brand new series, Invention Factory, GE explores the unlimited potentials of technology and unlocks the human elements that lie within each–seeing how data can help people fall in love, how a lighter engine can open up the world to a billion more people, and how the mind can push the human body to limits never thought possible. Subscribe to GE's YouTube channel to follow the Invention Factory series as it rolls out: https://www.youtube.com/user/GE Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

The world of FPV racing is still tight-knit: It's a segment of a segment of the growing but still relatively small drone industry. But that might not be the case for long. These homemade machines can fly at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour, making it the perfect option for people with a speed obsession but can't shell out for a private jet. Those who race say it's going to be on ESPN one day, that we'll have drone racing stadiums, and leagues, and maybe even Mario Kart-style combat. MORE DRONES FROM MOTHERBOARD: The Iranian Drone That Saves Lives: http://bit.ly/1uwofEO Dive-Bombing Drone Confronts Goose Poop: http://bit.ly/1zHDUFc Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

In 2014, before Ethereum and altcoin mania, before ICOs and concerns about Tether and Facebook's Libra, Motherboard gained access to a massive and secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China. This is the infrastructure that keeps the digital currency’s decentralized network up and running, and its operators were profiting big time. The mine we visited was just one of six sites owned by a secretive group of four people, part of a colossal mining operation that, as of our visit, cumulatively generated 4,050 bitcoins a month, equivalent to a monthly gross of $1.5 million as of 2015. Since then, the cryptocurrency mining world has become even more extreme. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos

In 1946, importing 25 pairs of beavers from Canada to Chile in order to foster a fur trade in an economically lackluster territory of Patagonia seemed like a smart idea. However, no one would have imagined these incisor-toothed vermin would one day lay waste to Patagonia’s forests. Today, there are roughly 100,000 beavers in the region and their environmental destruction has allegedly led to the most transformative destruction of its southern ecosystem since the last ice age. We traveled to the southernmost tip of Chile to meet the beaver hunters in charge of crudely restoring order to its ecosystem. More Symbiotic: "Scrotum Frog Boner Juice" - http://bit.ly/1C6SggS Watch: "Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days" - http://bit.ly/1siAyGn Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

China is in the midst of a massive industrial and economic revolution which has required large expenditures of energy. Although it is one of the world's leaders in green energy ventures, most of China's energy comes in the form of coal. We all know fossil fuels come with a hefty environmental price and they have definitely left China's mega cities with a gnarly air pollution problem. In Beijing, the majority of the factories are located right on the outskirts of the city, often laying a blanket of thick grey smog in the air. This smog which contains a class of particle known as PM 2.5 amongst other terrible things, and has lead to spikes in pulmonary diseases and other health issues among Beijingers. In this episode of Upgrade, we head to the Netherlands to talk to Daan Roosegaarde, an artist who focuses on social design projects aimed at stirring up conversation. His latest project involves a giant ionic smog crushing vacuum that he wants to put in a park in Beijing so it's citizens can enjoy clean air. Check out more episodes of Upgrade: Aquapods Are the Future of Oceanic Fish Farming: http://bit.ly/Aquapods The Magnetic Wand That Cleans Oil Spills: http://bit.ly/Magnetic-Oil Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

If you're a national army in the market for a brand spanking new jet, smart rifle, or drone, you might consider checking out CANSEC, Canada's premier defense trade show. While Canada is known as a peacekeeping nation and for ​turning down (publicly, at least) George Bush's invitation to invade Iraq in the "Coalition of the Willing," military exports ​are booming as of late. And every year at CANSEC, held in Canada's quiet capital of Ottawa, Canadian and international defence and security contractors hawk their wares to soldiers, generals, and defence officials from Peru to Israel. While the military products on site aren't for sale per se, defence companies use CANSEC to showcase their best hardware to serious national armies looking for upgrades. With the support of the Harper government, sales of Canadian defence merchandise are rising: The latest available government figures put sales increasing between 2010 to 2011, with later years reportedly expected to spike. Last winter Canada touted one of the biggest arms sells in its history: a $10 billion deal for General Dynamics Canada to build light armoured vehicles for the Saudi Arabian Army. So while you might think Canadians love their Alberta crude oil, maple syrup, and hockey players—they also don't mind peddling military and security hardware the world over. Read: Canada Is Selling Arms to Everyone It Can - http://bit.ly/1uU7QrM Check out 'Who Killed the Smart Gun?' - http://bit.ly/2nZFErL Watch VICE's documentary 'SOFEX: The Business of War' - http://bit.ly/1yYPa0H Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Ralph Baer, who developed the first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, died in December of 2014 at the age of 92. Back in 2009, we chatted with Baer about his impact on the industry. Read More: Ralph Baer Changed Your Life - http://bit.ly/12ZMen8 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d When the bicycle became popular in the beginning of the 19th century in southern Germany, England, and France, it was the first machine that championed private transportation. Almost 200 years after the invention of the vélocipède and Drais’ dandy horse, personal mobility is one of the highest imperatives in a globalized world. Today, our streets are filled with fixed-gears, roadsters, rickshas, BMX, and electric bikes. The ​Human Power Team has demonstrated just how fast you can go with pure muscle power. The third model of the Dutch team’s high-tech recumbent bicycle, the VeloX 3, reached a speed of 133.78 km/h, setting a new world record for the fastest pedal-powered vehicle. We visited the Human Power Team in their workshop in Delft, where lead engineer Dennis Berckmoes, although still in the middle of making the final preparations for their next record attempt, walked us through the details of the engineering process, that he and his colleagues from the student team go through every year, designing a new highs-peed prototype. All of the components of the VeloX4, from the chassis made of extremely hard but super light carbon, to the aerodynamics that are tested in the wind tunnel of a space center, to the special gear system, to the 3D-printed special parts, are individually designed and produced. “This is Formula 1 for bicycles,” as Dennis put it. Read more on MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/1zR7a9K Check out The 20-Year Old With a Plan to Rid the Sea of Plastic: http://bit.ly/Ocean-Clean-Up-Kid Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

While American Predator drones drop missiles on suspected terrorists in Yemen, one Canadian drone maker is deploying his “Goosebuster” on packs of pesky geese pooping on a beach in Ottawa, Ontario. After city officials tried using dogs, pungent fertilizers, and human decoys to ward off nesting geese, whose prodigious poop output was leading to dangerously high E. colilevels on a public beach on Petrie Island, they turned to Steve Wambolt, an-ex IBM and Corel employee who designed a hexicopter system fit with lights and blasting predator noises. “I spent a couple weeks researching and coming up with the lights and sounds to add to the drone,” said Wambolt who originally tried to sell the city a means to survey property using his remote control drone system. Instead, Orleans wardcouncilor Bob Monette, who made ridding the beach of geese part of his mandate, suggested using the drone for the task. “From there we came up with a process on how to best scare geese and seagulls with the drone,” Wambolt said. Over 100 geese were living in the area, chilling on a newly built city beach, eating grass, and leaving drying feces everywhere that granulates into the sand and waterfront. All those birds produce a lot of feces. In fact, statistics show that, over the course of a year, 4,000-plus geese calling the Ottawa River home discharged some 3,600 kilograms of goose poop. Nationally, the destruction of natural habitats have removed the geese's natural predators, while suburbanization (and the tasty lawns of homes, parks, and golf courses) have left Canadian geese populations booming. And all their poop makes for a ripe breeding ground for bacteria, including E. coli. Luckily for Ottawa beach dwellers, Wambolt’s non-lethal system has had devastating effects: Last year Orleans Online reported 140 geese were spotted at the beginning of the season, with less than 24 by the end. Starting early in the morning, Wambolt has his drones dive-bombing unsuspecting geese who are chased away to alternative grazing lands. Like other migratory birds, the Canadian goose has migratory patterns and traditional nesting grounds they return to yearly. With repeated and scheduled flights, his Goosebuster disrupts this pattern by retraining the goose to think a predator is in the area. “The Goosebuster drone appears as a predator,” he said. “We have the advantage of being able to fly and chase the geese a short distance. It uses custom lights and sounds designed to (scare) geese.” Politicians, who’ve spent over a million dollars redeveloping and renewing the beachfront to attract visitors, are praising the new city drone program. “Since Steve began flying the drone, the beach has only been closed for one day and was one of the most open beaches in the City,” said councilor Monette, adding that E. coli rates dropped after Goosebuster patrols started. Other municipalities have made calls to Wambolt for the Goosebuster drone to protect crop yields and patrol their beaches. Ultimately, with increasing environmental changes, more Canadian cities might turn to Goosebuster, before other Canadian waterfronts go to the geese. Watch 'The Iranian Drone That Saves Lives' - http://bit.ly/1uwofEO Check out the Drones, Robots, Rockets and Bombs playlist: http://bit.ly/1p1tNYC Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Tang and freeze-dried ice cream is fun to consume for about five minutes of your life. When you’re 10. But when you’re floating in space, the limited culinary options leave something to be desired. In fact, astronauts on long trips typically don’t eat enough. That’s where SPOT and ROGR come in: a smart growing chamber and gardening robot, respectively, currently being developed by a graduate team at the University of Colorado Boulder. The goal is to be able to grow fresh fruits and vegetables in the space environment. Not only will that allow astronauts to get some variety in their diet, but it gives them access to living, green, growing life in what is otherwise a sterile, metal box. Astronauts have reported greatly enjoying previous experiments that gave them a chance to tend to plants in space and help something thrive. Eventually, SPOT and ROGR could help establish greenhouses on Mars to provide sustainable, fresh produce for colonies on the red planet. Check out the latest installment of our series Spaced Out to find out how it will all work and see if you can watch it without getting an unnatural craving for fresh, green lettuce. They make it look so good! Check out Video Game Designer Lord British Go to Space: http://bit.ly/1zQIQZ3 Click to watch 'Will Humans Ever Live on Mars?' - http://bit.ly/1EzBhE1 Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Click to subscribe: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD What's life like for the grandson of the greatest marine explorer in history? Well, we're giving you a peek into how Philipe Cousteau Jr., son of the late Philippe Cousteau and the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, is filling the wet suits of his famous family members. Just like his relatives, Cousteau is fascinated with adventure and nature and has been a filmmaker, host on Animal Planet, and champion of the environment. In his own words, Cousteau tells us about the past, present, and future of his fascinating life. Visit Frank & Oak: http://bit.ly/1zmGu4M Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Earth is the only home we've ever known, and it's treated us well so far. But whether it’s climate change, an apocalyptic asteroid, or some horrifying disaster we don’t even know about yet, the Earth won't live forever. Luckily for us, we’re in the middle of a new space race—one fueled not by countries trying to plant a flag on the Moon, but by explorers looking to get rich on Mars and beyond. The hope of these entrepreneurs is that in their quest for dollars, we'll find a way to help humanity settle on new worlds. Read more: http://bit.ly/1tmOqx7 Click to watch Video Game Designer Lord British Go to Space - http://bit.ly/1wJFJ2j Meet Scotland's DIY Rocketeers: http://bit.ly/DIY-Rocketeers Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

There aren’t many places you can conveniently launch a homemade rocket. But a blustery Scottish moor, reachable only by winding roads that twist around reservoirs, wind turbines, and plenty of sheep, is one of them. Every year for a week in August, a group of amateur rocketeers convene at the Fairlie Moor Rocket Site, not far from Glasgow, to blast their DIY shuttles and spaceships into the skies. This is International Rocket Week. Read More: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-scotlands-diy-rocketeers Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

In parts of Peru, there's an ancient culinary delicacy that consists of liquefying a rare frog. Drinking the concoction is said to cure a wide range of ailments, including bronchitis, tuberculosis, asthma, arthritis, even impotence. The amphibious garnish in question is not just any frog, but the critically endangered Telmatobius culeus, or more commonly known as the scrotum water frog, which is endemic to the Lake Titicaca region. As unflattering as it sounds, the nickname is rather apt considering the croaker's many blanket-like skin folds that cover its body; think of it as amphibious version of a blubbery bulldog. Frog Juice, or Jugo de Rana, as its referred to in Spanish, has been dubbed the Peruvian Viagra. It's a concoction that's believed to have strong medicinal powers with purported benefits including increased blood flow, lung function, and more poignantly, sexual stimulation. Motherboard correspondent Mariano Carranza traveled to Lima and discovered some frog juice at an open-air, mom n' pop shop in the streets of Puente Nuevo. Symbioticis a new Motherboard series that delves into the beautiful and twisted interactions between man and animal and the interdependent tussle between the two species in the name of mutual survival. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Read: The Rhino Horn Crisis and the Darknet - http://bit.ly/1w2WFhV Watch: "Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days" - http://bit.ly/1siAyGn Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Boyan Slat's story is not quite that of a 20-year-old Wunderkind who magically found a potential fix to a longstanding problem. It's perhaps more accurately described as a combination of personal dedication and trial and error. When going through his old prototypes for a technology that would passively scrub oceans of plastic, he's almost embarrassed of his early concepts. "But that's what science is really," Slat said. "It's a work in progress." The crowdfunding campaign behind Slat's Ocean Cleanup Project was announced with strong bidding, no matter: "With two million dollars we can make a theoretical concept come true." With just two days left in his campaign, Slat successfully collected the funding for his project, bringing him one step closer to realizing a vision of plastic-free oceans. Read more on MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Ocean-Clean-Up-Kid Read Now: Welcome to Garbage Patch State - http://bit.ly/Y7Xmv5 Click to watch "Garbage Island" on VICE: http://bit.ly/1DxzpOz Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD In our final episode of season two of Sound Builders, presented by Harman, we head over to downtown Brooklyn, to spend the day with Andy Cavatorta. He's an inventor, sculptor, and instrument designer whose latest quest to program robots to make music has led him to the creation of his magnetized piano harp. Cavatorta is no stranger to building his own instruments. His most recent claim to fame was his role in developing a homespun instrument for experimental musician Björk. In preparation for her 2013 Biophiliia tour, Björk commissioned Cavatorta to build harps that swung like multi-string pendulums and triggered musical patterns from Earth's gravitational pull. For his latest musical creation, Andy has mounted a caboodle of magnets onto a piano's frame. Once the magnets are activated, electromagnetic vibrations pull and release the piano's steel strings in a bloom of various pitches in harmonic succession. By doing this, Andy has managed to feather dust an instrument that was created many centuries ago and offer it a new sonic vocabulary by tapping into the piano's uncharted harmonics. Indeed, our exchange between sound and instrument is an ever-evolving one that reminds us that an old dog can indeed learn new tricks. While excavating new sounds from an old instrument is enough to make an audiophile tinkle his pants, it's the instrument's new interfaces and unique dialogue between the tactile and the magnetic player that's the real kicker. While one player is able to stimulate electromagnets by playing the keyboard, another tactile player can pluck, hammer, and touch the steel strings of the piano harp in order to shape their harmonic nodes and further manipulate the sound. Here we see how Andy's multi-player magnetic piano harp can be a standalone instrument, but its inception was originally planned to be a cog in a larger wheel of organized sound. On November 16th at Littlefield in Brooklyn, composer Molly Herron will debut her ​New Music for New Instruments (http://bit.ly/1ogA90L) concert in which Andy and his electromagnetic harp will play alongside other instrument builders to create a symphony of sonic delight. To learn more about harnessing the power of music, also check out " The Distortion of Sound," a new documentary about the decline of high-fidelity sound. Catch all previous Sound Builders episodes here: http://bit.ly/ZGFB7l Watch Episode 1: http://bit.ly/Xdj2p5 Check out Sounder Builders season 1: http://bit.ly/1qCzF9t Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She's a sonic artist and environmental designer who's developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression. Channeling a plant's sentience into an instrument is no obvious feat. Mileece's background as an audiophile and programmer dovetailed to turn a garden into an organic medium for music. She pulls this off by attaching electrodes to leafy limbs, which conduct the bio-electric emissions coming off living plants. The micro-voltage then gets sucked into her self-authored software, turning data into ambient melodies and harmonic frequencies. It's simply not enough for these green little squirts to just spit out noise. All this generative organic electronic music must sound beautiful, too. As a renewable energy ambassador, Mileece's larger goal behind her plant music is to enhance our relationship with nature. And if plant music can have a pleasing aesthetic articulation then hopefully we all can give a greater damn about our environment. While some may see the paradox in an organic medium generating electronic music, Mileece does not. She sees this as a symbiotic relationship, a vital one, and one that hints to a larger relationship she's been trying to unify, which is that between humans and nature. To learn more about harnessing the power of music, also check out "The Distortion of Sound," a new documentary about the decline of high-fidelity sound: http://distortionofsound.com/ Watch Episode 1: http://bit.ly/Xdj2p5 Check out Sounder Builders season 1: http://bit.ly/1qCzF9t Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD After spending the last month feather dusting episodes from season one of Sound Builders, we're positively tickled to bring to you a fresh batch of sonic-bending episodes. In this latest installment of Sound Builders we meet today's sonic artists who are pushing the audio experience to a whole new level by harnessing sound and technology to create their own instruments. Hosting this time around is singer, artist and frequent Blood Orange collaborator Samantha Urbani. In episode one, we go to Bushwick to meet with Brooklyn-based, interactive sound artist Adriano Clemente. He's a DJ, hacker, gamer and music producer but to sum things up, we've dubbed him a techno-collagist. It's the most accurate description for Adriano, since he uses a multitude of existing technology and custom parts whose official purposes are hardly designed for making music. We see this firsthand when our host Samantha had her arm turned into an analog instrument. With a medical sensor strapped to her forearm, Adriano was able to turn her muscle contractions into data to perform and compose music through the rarely explored art of biofeedback. Adriano goes on to explore the relationship between body, sensors and sound by showing us how a piezo contact microphone can be used to transform any piece of backyard junk into a percussive and melodic instrument. Some people call it physical modeling synthesis but we just call it pretty much amazing. Adriano's objective is clear: to create a new kinesthetic approach to sound design that totally flips our notion that music is made from a traditional instrument or from interfacing with your mouse, keyboard and screen. This kind of research in tactile, computer music embodiment is not only important for reimagining our conventional vision of an instrument, but also for cutting in half the frustration from wanting to perform in front of millions but having no idea how to play a single note. To learn more about harnessing the power of music, also check out "The Distortion of Sound," a new documentary about the decline of high-fidelity sound: http://distortionofsound.com/ Check out more episodes of Sounder Builders: http://bit.ly/1qCzF9t Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Back in June, Motherboard, deviantART, and Microsoft Surface partnered to launch the Transformation Challenge, a contest in which we asked artists to use a three-panel strip to show us a transformation of who they are now into what they could be. In this video, we join Nas Basha, one of three winners of the Transformation Challenge, as he spends a collaborative weekend in New York City with animator and illustrator, Dash Shaw. All of their entries were clever, intelligent, and just weird enough, and we were stoked to send each of them off to work with the likes of Dash Shaw, Jasper Wong, and Jordan Crane. Naturally, we had to bring our cameras along. Sponsored by Microsoft Surface: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/why-surface/for-creating Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Back in June, Motherboard, deviantART, and Microsoft Surface partnered to launch the Transformation Challenge, a contest in which we asked artists to use a three-panel strip to show us a transformation of who they are now into what they could be. In this video, we join Hugh Ebdy, one of three winners of the Transformation Challenge, as he spends a collaborative weekend in Los Angeles with cartoonist Jordan Crane. All of their entries were clever, intelligent, and just weird enough, and we were stoked to send each of them off to work with the likes of Dash Shaw, Jasper Wong, and Jordan Crane. Naturally, we had to bring our cameras along. Sponsored by Microsoft Surface: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/why-surface/for-creating Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD We've been running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch here this month. But first, here's Ranjit Bhatnagar, a veteran sound builder with Brooklyn hackerspace ​NYC Resistor perhaps best known for putting himself through the "28 Instruments, 28 Days" challenge each February. When we caught up with Bhatnagar in 2010, he was busy hotwiring an old accordion into something altogether bizarre. Call it a keycordian. "I don't have much of a music background," Ranjit admitted. "I wasn't sure that I would develop any musical talent in messing around with these things, but I'm glad I'm actually getting a little bit of progress there." Stay tuned for the premiere of our next season of Sound Builders right here on Motherboard Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD We've been running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch here this month. First, we revisit artist and musician Ken Butler, who's on a mission to create artworks that reference the ergonomic relationship that a "guitar" has to the human body. Sometimes, as he told us in 2010, on a tour of Anxious Objects workshop in Brooklyn, that means rewiring the image of an instrument as a cultural weapon. A hatchet-turned-violin? Check. A hockey stick/tennis racket mashup that you can play as a guitar, bass, or violin, and also as a percussive instrument? Check. For Butler, the shape, size, and tonal possibilities of Frankensteined sound devices are seemingly limitless. "These are all made of existing things," Butler said. "If you can vibrate it, there's nothing you couldn't make into an instrument. Absolutely nothing." Stay tuned for the premiere of our next season of Sound Builders right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD We've been running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch here later this month. First, here's Steve Mann, a professor and instrument designer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Some call him the world's first cyborg. When he's not fighting for you cyborg rights, Mann uses an unlikely pairing of brainwaves and compressed hydraulic fluids to rethink how to create sound. Back in 2010, Mann, who also founded the Wearable Computers Group at MIT's Media Lab, invited us to his Toronto studio to hear about some of his past inventions, and also check out his underwater pipe organ. It's a highly-tactile, mellifluous instrument that Mann hopes will offer a new method for the deaf and blind to create music. He calls it the Hydraulophone. Stay tuned for the premiere of our next season of Sound Builders right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD We've been running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch here later this month. First, here's the robo-stylings of Eric Singer, a musician and founder of both The League of Electronic Music Urban Robots (LEMUR) and The Madagascar Institute, a Brooklyn-based collaborative arts project. Singer has previously sonified fire, balls of slime, and other far-flung organic matter. But in 2010, when we visited Singer in his basement workshop in Pittsburgh, he showed us some of his new MIDI-based robotic instruments. Among other things, he gave us a demo of a robot guitar he'd been working on. Naturally, it looked nothing like a guitar or a robot. But it still shreds. "Soon robots will take over and rule the world, and this is my way of getting on their good side first," Singer told us. "Don't kill him, he's in the band." Stay tuned for the premiere of our next season of Sound Builders right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Listen up: We're running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch on Motherboard next month. First, let's revisit Reed Ghazala, who's been called the father of circuit bending. "I've been accused of starting the first electronic art movement," Ghazala told us back in 2010. "If that's true, that was better than the other things I could've done." Clad entirely in purple, a sort of modular J. Mascis, Ghazala would show us his boyhood home in suburban Cincinnati—where the chance-driven sound generating technique was born in the late 1960s—before we holed up at his Anti-Theory Workshop on the other side of town. There, he played our flesh (seriously) and an array of other manipulated consumer electronics, all blipping and blorping to the rush of simply not knowing what you're going to get when you bend, say, a children's toy radio. Stay tuned for the premiere of Sound Builders season two right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Listen up: We're running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over to the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch on Motherboard next month. First, here's Italian sound designer Diego Stocco. Perhaps best known for sonifying the elements—trees, dirt, sand—not tapping conventional electronics, creating otherwise listenable compositions that many "professional" musicians are prone to dismiss as mere trifles, Stocco invited us out to LA back in 2010 because he'd decided to make a new kind of instrument. We tagged along as he gathered supplies, built the thing in his backyard (not before a pasta break), and finally, sound checked his Mad Max-looking bass-like invention. Stay tuned for the premiere of Sound Builders season two right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD Listen up: We're running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over to the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch on Motherboard next month. But first, here's married electronic psych-pop duo Peaking Lights, best known for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and various other lo-fi radio gear. Back in 2010, they invited us over as they prepared for tour, giving us a run down of the completely untechnical, yet highly rigorous process of Frankensteining long forgotten consumer electronics. They even took us out rummaging for the raw materials—hunks of wood, metal, and plastic—with which they hope will change, not merely make sounds. Stay tuned for the premiere of Sound Builders season two right here on Motherboard. Watch More Sound Builders: Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics: http://bit.ly/WLJ0Rh Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Mac'-Style Bass With Pipes: http://bit.ly/1zw8QGx Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/1uPrlqt This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds): http://bit.ly/1xZ8S75 This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like: http://bit.ly/1pAHieX The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars: http://bit.ly/1o9Hdk3 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover 'Monkey Island,' an area inhabited solely by former lab tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars. We go to the island, interview the locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago. Read: These Chimps Helped Us Find a Hepatitis Vaccine. Now They've Been Left to Die - http://bit.ly/1LRZR7U This documentary is a Motherboard production, made possible by 20th Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Also check out our fictional narratives, set in the world of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes": Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/motherboardtv More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

Five years after the Simian Flu all but wiped out humanity, an orphaned teenage girl survives by bartering things she has stolen from dead people's homes. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes present this short film directed by Daniel Thron in a series inspired by the ten years between The Rise and The Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes http://www.dawnofapes.com/ Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Watch the full documentary on MOTHERBOARD now: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/island-of-the-apes In this upcoming documentary on Motherboard, our crew goes to Liberia to discover 'Monkey Island,' a place solely inhabited by former lab tested chimpanzees. We talk to the locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago. Coming soon to Motherboard. This documentary is a Motherboard production, made possible by 20th Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. http://www.dawnofapes.com. Watch the MOTHERBOARD Shorts 'Before the Dawn of the Apes': Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Amidst a widespread viral outbreak known as the 'Simian Flu,' a mother is quarantined after testing positive for the virus, leaving her husband and daughter to fend for themselves. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes presents this moving short film directed by Isaiah Seret in a series inspired by the ten years between The Rise and The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes http://www.dawnofapes.com/. Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

The journey of a shotgun through the hands of several ill-fated owners as the 'Simian Flu' ravages the world around them. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes present this ambitious short film directed by "thirtytwo" in a series inspired by the ten years between The Rise and The Dawn Of The Planet of the Apes http://www.dawnofapes.com/ Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1): http://bit.ly/1lPc0jY Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5): http://bit.ly/1kafvx1 Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10): http://bit.ly/1olqeJa Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Szs518 In our latest episode of Spaced Out with Friends, we hang out with Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, who's an actual, bonafide space buff. Einziger studied the history of physics at Harvard, and as such was uniquely suited to wax poetic on our celestial future. "To set foot on another celestial body, that would be crazy," he said. "I dunno, I would just want to go for a long walk, take a look around, and see if there are any green, funny-looking people walking around." Spaced Out with Friends is a series of interviews with assorted (and sometimes unexpected) folks about the infinite frontier. It's all in support of Ticket to Rise, in which one lucky earth dweller can win a trip to space. For a chance to be on one of the first shuttles out, visit UrgencyNetwork.com/Space Click here to watch Spaced Out with Linkin Park: http://bit.ly/1mTOFuN Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://www.youtube.com/user/MotherboardTV?sub_confirmation=1 Over the course of our "Phreaked Out" series, we've seen how devices such as urban control systems, moving vehicles, and smartphones are not impervious to hacks when connected to a network—cellular or wi-fi. In our third and final episode,we check out a slate of real-time phone hacks to tackle the question of mobile phone security. Unlocking L.A.'s Traffic Grid: Phreaked Out (Episode 1): http://bit.ly/1r03DpC How to Hack a Car: Phreaked Out (Episode 2): http://bit.ly/1ps2BB7 All The Ways To Hack Your Phone: Phreaked Out (Episode 3): http://bit.ly/1mfBwef Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://www.youtube.com/user/MotherboardTV?sub_confirmation=1 Some say Dr. Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas' brew brings the dead back to life. A MOTHERBOARD documentary on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist whose proprietary chemical formula rehydrates corpses for identification. Read more on MOTHERBOARD: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/still-life Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Watch now on MOTHERBOARD! http://motherboard.vice.com/read/still-life A teaser for MOTHERBOARD's upcoming doc on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist who has perfected a special chemical formula that rehydrates corpses for identification. Some say his brew brings the dead back to life. Still Life premieres June 3. Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Click here to watch Episode 3 now! http://bit.ly/1mfBwef In this episode of "Phreaked Out," we met some of the top security researchers at the center of the car hacking world. The goal isn't to make people crash: They highlight security holes in order to highlight flaws in car technology, intended to pressure auto manufacturers to be a few steps ahead of their friendly foes. Information security researcher Mathew Solnik gave us a first-hand demonstration on how to wirelessly send commands to the car and remotely tell it what to do. With a little over a grand and about a month of work, Solnik found time outside of his full-time job to reverse-engineer a car's computer system to make it ready for a takeover. From his laptop, he was able to manipulate the car's engine, brakes and security systems by wirelessly tapping into the Controller Area Network, or CAN bus, network. Without getting too deep into the details—both for legal reasons and due to my own training-wheel knowledge of such things—he was able to do so by implementing some off-the-shelf chips, a third party telematic control unit, a GSM-powered wireless transmitter/receiver setup, and a significant amount of know-how he's accrued over the years. The reason for such additional hardware was to make our older, mid-sized sedan function like a newer—and arguably more vulnerable—stock vehicle, which these days often come with data connections. (We would have loved to tinker with the latest, most connected car on the market, but since we were on a shoestring budget and it's incredibly hard to find a friend who's willing to lend their car for a hacking experiment, our pickings were slim.) With that said, a car whose network system is connected to a cloud server and accessible by Bluetooth, cell networks, or wi-fi is potentially vulnerable to intrusion. Unlocking L.A.'s Traffic Grid: Phreaked Out (Episode 1): http://bit.ly/1r03DpC How to Hack a Car: Phreaked Out (Episode 2): http://bit.ly/1ps2BB7 All The Ways To Hack Your Phone: Phreaked Out (Episode 3): http://bit.ly/1mfBwef Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Check out Episode 2 now! http://bit.ly/SkrmB7 In the debut episode of our three-part series titled "Phreaked Out," we took a retrospective look at one day in August of 2006, when two Los Angeles traffic engineers, Kartik Patel and Gabriel Murillo, remotely accessed the city's traffic control system and tampered with the light sequences at four main intersections of the city, as part of a labor union protest. Although there was little evidence of the attack, their alleged disruptions were reported to have triggered a state of gridlock that lasted days. In 2009, Patel and Murillo copped to the crime, which stood as a reminder that the city of Los Angeles, like countless other metropolises, relies on a certain degree of computerized and internet-connected control systems that are vulnerable to exploitation. Unlocking L.A.'s Traffic Grid: Phreaked Out (Episode 1): http://bit.ly/1r03DpC How to Hack a Car: Phreaked Out (Episode 2): http://bit.ly/1ps2BB7 All The Ways To Hack Your Phone: Phreaked Out (Episode 3): http://bit.ly/1mfBwef Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Watch Episode 1 on MOTHERBOARD now! http://youtu.be/hcoVMXLTQzw Security is fleeting, especially when it comes to the protection of our connected devices. In our three-part documentary series titled "Phreaked Out", Motherboard meets face-to-face with today's most talented security researchers and white hat hackers to get a firsthand schooling on the various ways to breach our most commonly used devices. Whether these connected networks control our cities, cars or phones, one thing's for certain, is that with enough determination, nothing is secure. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD for the best documentaries in tech and science here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Your neighborhood quadcopter probably doesn't have the ability to launch Hellfire missiles, but just saying the word "drone" conjures up images of flying, buzzing death. But what about drones' potential for saving lives? We've seen how drones can be a crucial asset to search and rescue operations, but Iran's RTS Lab has taken an entirely new angle. RTS's Pars drone carries a payload of life preservers that can be delivered to a drowning swimmer far faster than a lifeguard. As we saw in testing in the Caspian Sea, the drone can also work at night, using bright lights, biothermal sensors, and a built-in camera to stream video to rescuers on shore. The concept works well, and it's an excellent example of how powerful drones—which are cheaper and easier to use than just about any other aerial delivery vehicle—can actually be. Here in the US, where the FAA remains steadfast in its desire to squelch the nascent commercial drone industry, this Iranian drone built of Chinese parts sets an example of what can be done when we set our eyes to the skies to do good. Read about the legality of drones here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/commercial-drones-are-completely-legal-a-federal-judge-ruled Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

By reversing its aging process when it gets sick or injured, Japan's tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is one of the only known animals that has figured out how to defeat death. Motherboard goes to Japan to visit the only researcher in the world who is studying the microscopic animal to see if humans can eventually do the same. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/could-the-immortal-jellyfish-help-humans-live-forever Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

From Motherboard Italy: We visited Nicola Vitiello, a young researcher at the Institute of Biorobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, to check out the CYBERLEGs project he's working on. The effort represents the cutting edge in the world wearable robotics, and is aimed at developing an "artificial cognitive system for trans-femoral amputees' lower-limb functional replacement and assistance​." In other words, the project hopes to let people who've lost their legs walk again. Researchers are studying body movements in fine detail to both replicate and improve them, in order to allow robotic prostheses work as seamlessly as possible.​ Of course, if Vitiello and company can build robotic legs that are faster and stronger than a human's, what's stopping them from bringing on the cyborg revolution? Made curious and concerned by half a century of sci-fi dystopias, we spoked directly with Vitiello, who explained how the prototype legs are designed and manufactured—and promised that they'll only be used for good. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

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In Pasaje 18 of Lima's Polvos Azules shopping mall, you'll find racks of DVD burners humming away while flourescent lights cast their glare across the glitter of thousands of bootleg movies in their telltale cellophane wrappers. If you want it to be, it's a scene right out of cyberpunk. But for many Peruvians, whose access to things like Netflix is hampered by some of the slowest internet speeds on the globe, bootleg DVDs remain a primary source for accessing current movie releases. Motherboard's Mariano Carranza recently paid a visit to Lima to check out how DVD bootleggers operate, and they said Johnny Law has cooled on the piracy crackdown in recent years. It hasn't always been that way; in 2006, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) estimated that some 98 percent of music distributed in Peru between 2004-2005 was pirated. As a shop owner named El Chino told us, "I had problems with the law about 11 years ago. They'd stop by and confiscate my films. But they don't do that anymore, mainly because this has grown too much." Peru's high piracy rates show that there's a market for music and movies with huge potential for monetization. As the EFF has argued, restrictive copyright powers aren't the answer, as eliminating piracy completely is impossible. But if stemming rampant privacy is the goal, continually improving delivery of copyrighted content to consumers is key. "I'm your your dealer. I deliver your pirated films," bootlegger Santos Demonios said. "Your visual drug." Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Our latest doc is about clinic in Los Angeles that uses virtual reality simulations to treat war veterans with PTSD. With host Jody Mitic, a former master sniper for the Canadian military, this short doc explores the efficacy of these systems to treat a highly mysterious mental condition. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-clinic-battling-ptsd-with-virtual-reality Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

The more we learn about our brains, the more we discover just how fragile they are. When concussions happen, it's extremely important to manage an athlete's recovery to prevent him or her from getting further damage. That's where Sway Balance comes in. An athlete's balance is one of the most obvious things affected by a concussion, but using balance as a recovery metric requires objective data typically gleaned from highly expensive force platforms. Sway Balance instead uses an iPhone's accelerometer to track an athlete's balancing ability against a known baseline. It's a smart app, and one that already counts a number of universities as partners, who are all interested in developing cheap, easy-to-deploy tools to ensure their athletes' safety. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/are-you-concussed-theres-an-app-for-that Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Doug Coulter used to build signal processing and radio gadgets for our favorite three-lettered intelligence agencies, but for the past decade or so, Doug's chosen to explore his engineering interests in the isolated backwoods of Virginia, absent from any pesky boss or sticky bureaucracy. After tiring of living with a meth head who had a trigger finger itchier than an Appalachian mosquito bite, Doug gave his ex-housemate the boot and confiscated his weapons, thus paving the way for his new found love for gunsmithing. Doug has since open sourced his gun and ammo making techniques on his well-trafficked engineering forum. But Doug's most exciting creation is his guerilla-engineered nuclear fusion reactor. Doug's pursuit for a limitless source of clean and self-sufficient energy takes place in what he calls his "den of creative chaos," which is essentially a cluttered workshop in the entrance of his home, directly underneath his bedroom. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-diy-engineer-who-built-a-nuclear-reactor-in-his-basement Watch 'Who Killed the Smart Gun?': http://bit.ly/2nZFErL Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

On August 31st, 2013, Nyad jumped into the shark-friendly waters of Cuba and swam some 110-odd miles—without the protection of a shark cage—to eventually reach the shores of Key West, Florida, some 53 hours later. Nyad's superhuman feat was an extremely personal mission that was made possible with the support of a motley crew of scientists, oceanographers, navigators, and physicians. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-swim-from-cuba-to-florida Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Protei is an open source oil spill cleaning robot designed by MIT-dropout Cesar Harada. This sailboat drone is a powerful weapon in the battle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, while preserving the safety of the workers who would otherwise be exposed to the toxic mess. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

The Delancey Underground is an initiative to build the first underground park in an abandoned trolley terminal in the New York City subway system. The technology uses bowl-like collectors and fiber optic wire to funnel sunlight from the street above, bathing the park in natural daylight and allowing enough light for plants to thrive. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Motherboard attended The Kong Off 3 in Denver, where we spent four loopy days in a dark arcade documenting the action-packed rivalry between two of Donkey Kong's fiercest adversaries: Hank Chien, a 39-year old plastic surgeon who graduated from Harvard and 22-year old French Canadian meathead, Vincent Lemay. Following the cultural success of 2007's King of Kong documentary, which followed the joystick jousting between former reigning champ Billy Mitchell and family man challenger Steve Wiebe, a second generation of DK contenders has appeared. This is the story or brains versus brawn in the world of competitive arcade gaming. Read more on MOTHERBOARD here: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-new-kings-of-kong Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, author of dozens of books on computer and real-world security, was tapped by The Guardian to help the newspaper decode the NSA documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. We met with him in Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk about the risks of widespread digital surveillance, the problem with thinking about those risks, and the ways that the public can demand change. Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

We used the deep web to find out just how easy it was to buy guns, drugs, and other contraband online. WATCH NEXT: Who Killed the Smart Gun? - http://bit.ly/2nZFErL Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Is Soylent the future of food? CEO Rob Rhinehart lived on his liquid invention for 30 days straight, and the feat propelled him to internet fame and fortune. So I decided to become the first person to repeat his feat—for a month straight, I'd try to live on nothing but the chemical cocktail, just like Rob. Along the way, I'd investigate the how an artificial food replacement might impact human health, Silicon Valley, and the world at large. This is the story of life after food. Read more on MOTHERBOARD here: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/soylent-no-food-for-30-days Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Watch the full length documentary on MOTHERBOARD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg&list=PLTlJK3kwZIbQg4PuYQ7g-4sfqKdq6XxuT Is Soylent the future of food? CEO Rob Rhinehart lived on his liquid invention for 30 days straight, and the feat propelled him to internet fame and fortune. So I decided to become the first person to repeat his feat—for a month straight, I'd try to live on nothing but the chemical cocktail, just like Rob. Along the way, I'd investigate the how an artificial food replacement might impact human health, Silicon Valley, and the world at large. This is the story of life after food. Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe here now! http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE-The-Creators-Project The Creators Project YouTube channel, a partnership with Intel and VICE, is the premier home for digital arts and culture on the web. Subscribe now for cutting-edge looks at art, technology, film, fashion, music, and more. Music: "The Mother We Share" Performed by CHVRCHES Check out more from The Creators Project here: Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6uqON-thyrbyAiB8LYlhvyyIDSAHpd7s "Box": a mind-blowing short film by Bot & Dolly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo&list=PLDAB90D28D4CC2602 Turning Weapons Into Instruments | Pedro Reyes 'Disarm': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQp16D-TqQ&list=PL6B88E96539650D44 Phoenix - Trying to Be Cool (Official Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePvsCfKHJg&list=PL99DB3EFE762A6052 Anthony Howe's Otherworldly Kinetic Sculptures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshSaF_juGs&list=PL6B88E96539650D44 Leaders Of The 3D Printing Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4Xw8f9LCc&list=PL3300B405DFEA70F8 Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCreatorsProject/videos Like The Creators Project on Facebook: http://fb.com/thecreatorsproject Follow The Creators Project on Twitter: http://twitter.com/creatorsproject Read our Tumblr: http://thecreatorsproject.tumblr.com/

In 2005, artist Jennifer Kanary's sister-in-law committed suicide while suffering from a psychotic episode. This event led Jennifer to develop Labyrinth Psychotica, an experience designed to give people more insight into how it feels to suffer through psychosis. Users are strapped into virtual reality gear and transported into the mind of a psychotic girl named Jamie. The whole experience lasts twelve minutes, during which 'normal' reality gets increasingly intertwined with Jamie's psychotic reality, making it more and more difficult to distinguish between what's real and what's not. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Humanity just made a small, bloody step towards a time when everyone can upgrade themselves towards being a cyborg. Of all places, it happened in the back room of a studio in the post-industrial German town of Essen. It's there that I met up with biohacker Tim Cannon, and followed along as he got what is likely the first-ever computer chip implant that can record and transmit his biometrical data. Combined in a sealed box with a battery that can be wirelessly charged, it's not a small package. And as we saw, Cannon had it implanted directly under his skin by a fellow biohacking enthusiast, not a doctor, and without anesthesia. Called the Circadia 1.0, the implant can record data from Cannon's body and transfer it to any Android-powered mobile device. Unlike wearable computers and biometric-recording devices like Fitbit, the subcutaneous device is open-source, and allows for the user the full control over the data. Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

As compared to their gasoline counterparts, electric motors have near-instant torque and linear power delivery, both important qualities when pushing a motorcycle to the limits of grip. Motherboard recently got to see just how effective the electric RS could be when we were given a demo by a former pro racer around a private race track in upstate New York. Given the slow growth of the electric vehicle market and resultant charging infrastructure—it's about as straightforward a chicken-egg scenario as one can get—can high-end electric vehicles break the stalemate? That's been Tesla's plan, with a goal of not just building electric cars, but better cars. Mission's plan is similar—build the best electric bike possible, and those that can afford it won't have to worry about compromises. For EV builders, it's important to prove to the market that electric vehicles can compete, something the RS does well. But the huge question is when the technology will trickle down to cheaper models and more potential buyers. Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Al Gore is worried about the future. We're at a point, he says, where the very survival of civilization as we know it is at risk. But he's optimistic, too, for a number of reasons. Motherboard sat down with the world's most famous—and certainly busiest—vice president to talk about two possible futures. In one, Americans kick-start an "Occupy democracy movement" to restore our political system, which Gore says has been "hacked," to come together to fight climate change. In the other, human civilization literally lies in ruin. Here's how Al Gore thinks things will unfold. Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we've heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes. The PGF's closed-loop system is based off jetfighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of "skill-free killing". In LONG SHOT Motherboard visits West Texas, the frontline of smart weapons. We get a backcountry crash course through the PGF, hear about TrackingPoint's plans to apply its system to a veritable suite of advanced weaponry, all built on custom software that promises to have novice shots like us to killing at 1,000 yards—and in the near future, potentially 3,000 yards—with single-shot accuracy, and try to untangle an increasingly knotty firearms debate in light of the so-called gamification of killing and, sadly, yet another mass shooting. Has killing become too easy? Read more on MOTHERBOARD here: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/long-shot-inside-the-scope-of-smart-weapons Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD for the best documentaries in tech and science here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we've heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes. The PGF's closed-loop system is based off jetfighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of "skill-free killing". In LONG SHOT Motherboard visits West Texas, the frontline of smart weapons. We get a backcountry crash course through the PGF, hear about TrackingPoint's plans to apply its system to a veritable suite of advanced weaponry, all built on custom software that promises to have novice shots like us to killing at 1,000 yards—and in the near future, potentially 3,000 yards—with single-shot accuracy, and try to untangle an increasingly knotty firearms debate in light of the so-called gamification of killing and, sadly, yet another mass shooting. Has killing become too easy? Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

You should subscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk This hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation's oldest and largest open-air collection of rotting corpses. Motherboard explores the Univ. of Tennessee Body Farm. Originally released in 2009 on http://motherboard.vice.com Read other related Motherboard Articles | 'The Creature Shop': http://bit.ly/16hG4MQ 'In the Future, We May Be Able to See More Mass Graces From Space: http://bit.ly/14IAzTK Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists -- Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg -- with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts and music. They say that TV is garbage -- and they want to turn that shit into gold. So they create live remixes of broadcasts using pure information to filter and direct the look and feel of their videos: deconstructing the 2008 presidential debates by using word-count as an aesthetic variable, for example. "Essentially what we're trying to do is like take the television studio and turn up the acid," Rothenberg says. Originally released in 2011. Read more here: http://bit.ly/1aQoZv2 Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD We meet Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist who paints with exploding gunpowder. Originally released in 2009. Read more here: http://bit.ly/17VM3ch http://bit.ly/14VfRDJ Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL And be sure to follow us. Facebook: www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD It was 3 PM when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard for the first episode of our series, Experimental Music. Oh, and we wanted to make some slime with him. We arrived at 11 PM and started setting up in Dan's space. Then we opened some brews, unpackaged our slime materials, and did science with him while he chatted about his quest to balance being a serious composer with being an electro-pop genius. It's two parts Bill Nye, 1.5 parts "Meet the Band," and 100 percent awesome. Originally released in 2012 on http://motherboard.vice.com Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard on Youtube now: http://bit.ly/17CdIPk If there is anybody working in the field of robotics whose success we are equally amazed by and terrified of, it is Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai. While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more "sophisticated" side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill, naming his company after the fictional cyborg firm responsible for the Terminator and trying to develop his own version of the exoskeleton from Aliens (which he's named HAL, no less). And yet for all the red flags, Professor Sankai's CyberDyne seems poised to contribute more to humanity than any of its competitors. Their HAL (or Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton has the ability to augment the wearer's strength by 80% and could drastically improve the lives and mobility of the old and disabled. Thanks to Sankai, we could be living on the cusp of a brighter and much awesomer world in which the lines separating man and machine are blurred to the benefit of all. Of course, that's what they said about SkyNet. Originally released on Motherboard in 2010. Watch another video about Professor Sankai here: http://bit.ly/1dmNqP3 Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the backyard of his Morelos home/laboratory. Originally released in 2011 on http://motherboard.vice.com Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

In 2009, Motherboard's then editor, Sean Yeaton, did the world a small service and dusted off Mark David's Box of Tapes. The tapes are a hastily edited set of clips gleaned from old cable access shows recorded by the deceased Mark David. The first stack of plastic from the dingy box we've got the luxury of feasting our cold, glassy eyes on is 'Tech Talk.' Brought to you in five short parts, 'Tech Talk' explores the most cutting-edge technology from the year 1980. In episode one, guest Monsignor Ron Duffy of the Vatican's Robotics Originally released in 2009 on motherboard.vice.com Check out HIGH COUNTRY: The Future of Weed: http://bit.ly/High Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD now: bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD And be sure to follow us: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more villified than any other American scientist in the 20th century, he always dismissed his critics as lacking in common sense or patriotism. Amid Cold War paranoia and fears of the Soviet nuclear program, the stakes were simply too high: for the free world, building the most powerful weapon in history was a matter of life and horrible death. To make his point, Teller pointed to his first-hand experience with tyranny, first under the Communists and then the Fascists, who raised hell across Hungary before he fled in the 1930s for America. His scars weren't just psychic: a streetcar ran over Teller's foot during his early years, leaving him hobbling for the rest of his life. Originally released in 2012 on http://motherboard.vice.com Read more here: http://bit.ly/1exBYAU Check out 'The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer' here: http://bit.ly/1cQHsJ4 You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Travel with Vice comics editor Nick Gazin to Atlanta for Dragon Con, a two-day bacchanalian orgy of sci-fi and comic book fans going bananas in the city's hotel rooms. We dive deep into the chaos with hundreds of cos-play and sci-fi fans, and then almost get arrested for talking to Carrie Fisher from Star Wars. Originally released in 2012 on http://motherboard.vice.com Read More Here: bit.ly/1exBYAU Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Matthew Deutsch is a singular teenager. He is not only afraid of dying, but he's made plans to put his brain on ice after he does so that he might be revived in the future. At 17, he is very likely the youngest cryonics candidate in the world. I met the Maryland high schooler in his element, last October at the Singularity Summit at New York's 92nd St. Y. There, he and hundreds of other expert and amateur technologists rubbed elbows with futurist luminaries like Ray Kurzweil, investor Peter Thiel, techno talker Jason Silva, and Aubrey de Grey, the biologist-philosopher who calls aging a disease. Deutsch says it was de Gray, in the documentary Do You Want to Live Forever, who inspired him to sign up with a neuro contract at Alcor Life Extension Foundation — or rather, to ask his parents to sign him up. Originally released in 2011 on http://motherboard.vice.com Read more here: http://bit.ly/12HgxMS Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Paul Hellyer recently stirred up global controversy when he testified before a half-dozen former US representatives that aliens exist. As Canada's former Minister of Defence, Hellyer is the first and only cabinet-ranking official from a G8 nation to publicly state a belief in extraterrestrials. MOTHERBOARD visits Paul Hellyer at his cottage in the sleepy and scenic woods of Ontario to find out more about his extraterrestrial claims. This is Paul Hellyer in real life. Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf And on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ And on Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. In 2011 Motherboard met Stelarc, a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and has been screwing with his body in the furtherance of art, technology, and cyborg rights. Originally released on Motherboard in 2011. Check out 'Colombia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines' here: http://bit.ly/15iNTiD You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Despite the fact that the city is mostly surrounded by water, you won't find anyone swimming off the shores of New York. That'd be nasty. Nearby rivers suffer from ongoing pollution issues caused by PCB contamination, accidental and non-accidental sewage discharges, urban runoff, heavy metals, furans, dioxin, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. You know, shit that makes mutant fish and whatnot. I'm not saying people should ever swim in the toxic rivers, but wouldn't it be nice? A few dudes in Brooklyn think it's a cool idea, so they're planning to build a plus sign-shaped pool, appropriately named Plus Pool, that will float in New York's surrounding waters. What's nuts is the thing will actually be filled with river water that it'll have cleaned because the pool is a huge filter, too. Originally released on Motherboard in 2012. Read more here: http://bit.ly/12OXu2j Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

A hovel of MIT grads slam energy drinks and chain cigarettes in a marathon robotics session. Originally released on Motherboard in 2009. Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL And follow MOTHERBOARD. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You Should Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD now: http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Vanessa Harden is like the 'Q' of the guerrilla gardening world. Her designs range from modified shoes that plant seeds to specialized flowerpot-dropping handbags. Surprisingly, those who run our cities don't look kindly on those seeking to alter the landscape without permission, so Vanessa has integrated clever gardening kit into everyday attire of the urban professional to disguise clandestine gardening activities. In 2011, Motherboard met Vanessa in her South London studio to find out how she got involved in this "underground" scene, and why she feels her own unique brand of eco-technology may help make the metropolises of the world greener places. She showed us firsthand the different techniques and technologies she employs in her designs and what other innovations she has pioneered. Then we headed out into the city to meet guerilla gardener guru Richard Reynolds to discover the fruits of his labor blossoming in grass verges and central conservations throughout London. The two put Vanessa's designs to use, and discussed how they have been received in the guerilla gardening community. Originally released on Motherboard in 2011. Check out 'Columbia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/1axjrEL Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Motherboard's initial online impression of fringe presidential candidate, Vermin Supreme, was that he was dead serious, terrifying, and a weird guy that was going to enslave us all. Supreme is recognizable by his elaborate wardrobe and ludicrous political platforms. He has run in many local, state, and national elections in the U.S. since the 80s, but in 2012, during his attempt at claiming the White House, he became full-on Internet famous thanks to the proliferation of kitschy fan art and YouTube videos. Originally released on Motherboard in 2012. Check out 'Colombia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines' here: http://bit.ly/15iNTiD Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny, tiny living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope. Davidson is also the discoverer and curator of the "Silicon Zoo," a collection of infinitesimal drawings etched directly into the circuitry of mass-manufactured microprocessors by their designers, and running the gamut in shape and style from a 2mm-long Crayola crayon to a Waldo one-third the width of a human hair. It's like tiny graffiti for nerds (regular nerds, not graffiti nerds). Read more: http://bit.ly/14gWd1V Check out 'Colombia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines': http://bit.ly/15iNTiD Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

When he was a senior in high school, Richard Garriott sold video game he'd designed to a distributor. The video game creator has one foot in the real world, another in the virtual world. Garriott, also known as Lord British, now resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that's the dream home of any grown-up kid. But his favorite place to live is a five-bedroom fixer-upper 250 miles above Earth. In 2008, Garriott parlayed his success in the videogame industry into a lifelong dream: Fly to the International Space Station. Originally released on Motherboard in 2011. Read more here: http://bit.ly/11litd7 Check out 'Colombia's Coke-Smuggling Submarines' here: http://bit.ly/15iNTiD Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Colombian drug traffickers up the ante with homemade coke-smuggling submarines. Originally released in 2011 on http://motherboard.vice.com Read more here: http://bit.ly/150nwhp Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series. Watch Part 2 here: http://bit.ly/1aeoTvX Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s- against all odds- pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, choch. But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more, also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at his suburban McDonalds he works out of to pick his brain about picking other people's brains. And monkeys'. You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Originally released on Motherboard in 2009. Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should subscribe to Motherboard now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-MOTHERBOARD Watch part 1/2 here! http://bit.ly/18PEJPW Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s- against all odds- pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, choch. But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more, also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at his suburban McDonalds he works out of to pick his brain about picking other people's brains. And monkeys'. Originally released on Motherboard in 2009. Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Mexicans conquer the last bastion of US/Japanese superiority: competitive robotics. Originally released in 2009 on http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

You should click here now to subscribe to Motherboard on Youtube: http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Oscar Niemeyer is the man who created Brazil's crazy space-age moon-capital. In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior plateau (read: nowhere). To facilitate this sensible endeavor they enlisted Oscar Niemeyer -- an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York -- to build a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto. Brasilia provided Niemeyer the perfect template to test out all the theoretical business he and his modernist colleagues had been cooking up for the past two decades. Together with urban planner Luis Costa, he designed a functionally integrated city full of massive concrete mushroom buildings and swooping aluminum spires and twisty overpasses and skyways and symbolic edifices and designated "sectors" where no one would ever have to watch out for traffic or wait at a stoplight. It's basically the bastard child of Alphaville and Albany, NY, and to this day remains a benchmark in what we really hope the future is going to look like. It also sealed his reputation as one of the century's most influential architects and certainly its most inlfuential Brazilian. Then an anti-communist military junta seized control of the country and kicked him out. Originally released on Motherboard in 2009. Read more here: http://bit.ly/VLkJEh Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

In 2009, Motherboard traveled to Tokyo to learn about how Tatsuya Matsui wants to make his robotic children part of your everday life. Aiming to use functionality as a form of expression, Matsui has a successful line of full body and upper torso mannequins that display clothing and jewelry in a dynamic way. These mannequins, especially the robot "Pallete," strike a variety of poses, and learn how to act by taking note of what poses consumers smile at and respond well to. Matsui's charismatic creations have been used by Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, and the MOMA. Originally released on Motherboard in 2009. Read more here: http://bit.ly/12H5FOQ Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Mark Pauline is the founder of Survival Research Laboratories, a mythical moniker among weird-techies, art-punks and general violence seekers across the globe. Pauline began his work in the 80s in the San Francisco punk and art scene defacing billboards and organizing public pranks. Through the decades, he has become a pioneer in technological and performance arts. His vaguely anthropomorphic creations are some of the most dangerous machines ever made, rivaling the military, but instead of turning their threats on us, the machines blow each other up and let us watch. Originally released on Motherboard in 2011. Check out 'The Future of Weed': http://bit.ly/High-Country Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience." Originally aired on Motherboard in 2011. Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/146oqYW Check out 'The Future of Weed' here: http://bit.ly/16ENKaV Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk And follow us here: Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

MOTHERBOARD met up with Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov at his Global Future 2045 Conference in New York City to talk about immortality, spirituality, and the coming age of cybernetic avatar-based living. Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf And on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ And on Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

John Coster-Mullen is a truck-driver with minimal college education who taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made. "The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they are to make," admits Coster-Mullen. Last year, Motherboard visited Coster-Mullen to talk with him about his life project--reverse engineering the atomic bombs America dropped on Japan. His findings are available in a book he continuously updates and publishes himself called Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, which has received rave reviews from the National Resource Defense Council, which says of Coster-Mullen's project that "nothing else in the Manhattan Project literature comes close to his exacting breakdown of the bomb's parts." Coster-Mullen gives an intensely technical history of the atomic bomb, which is centered around a detailed explanation of how the bombs were built, including exact dimensions and configurations, inside and out. For almost ten years, Coster-Mullen painstakingly analyzed photographs and interviewed more than 150 scientists, engineers, and others involved in their development. The result is an unprecedented and highly accurate recreation of the bomb on paper, both in its mechanics and history. Coster-Mullen's ambitious project is certainly a neat example of the ingenuity that led America to be the first to develop the atomic bomb. But it's also a stark reminder that our most powerful technologies can end up being reworked and used in other ways, by people much less friendly than truck drivers with lots of time on their hands. Originally released in 2011. Read more: http://bit.ly/120Tyr7 Check out 'The Future of Weed' here: http://bit.ly/16ENKaV Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Meet Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared "the most clever child in the world." She learned to read at three and published her first novel when she was seven. When Motherboard hung out with her in 2009, she said she sees herself as an "educator, poet and humanitarian." In this short video Adora interviews SETI astronomer Jill Tarter about her search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life. Originally released in 2012. Click here to check out Drone On: the Future of UAV Over the US! http://bit.ly/Drone-On Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us here! Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

In HIGH COUNTRY, Motherboard heads to Denver--ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a booming tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of weed--to inhale the newest high-tech highs. We visit the key players scaling up this new green tech, wrap our heads around all the money to be made, crack open the confusing science of America's No. 1 cash crop, and smoke dabs. HIGH COUNTRY originally aired on http://Motherboard.VICE.com. Read part one: http://bit.ly/1b05NYU Read part two: http://bit.ly/11rE41X Suscribe to MOTHERBOARD! http://bit.ly/17CdIPk Follow us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/ZPHrSf And on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Wb05QZ And on Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

In 1999, Joe DeNardo moved into a house in Olympia, Washington. His roommate, Kevin Doria, turned out to share his interest in music. Within a few months the pair began playing heavy, looped guitars in their basement, under the name 1000 AD. In 2001, they changed their name to Growing and in 2004 they moved to Brooklyn where they still reside. Stints at All Tomorrow's Parties, and with bands like Hot Chip, Boris, Sunn 0))), Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, and OOIOO brought Growing to wider audience and expanded the band's musical spectrum. Always expanding their sonic vocabulary, this album welcomes member Sadie Laska (of IUD), who has increased the depth of the act's sound with varied electronics, samples, and vocal parts. Now they're exploring electronics and computers in ever new and less categorical ways. Motherboard visits the practice space of the band one day before the release of their eighth album PUMPS! and the start of a 6 week North American tour in support of it. We also capture their first show of the tour in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and talk with the band about their sound. Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/electric-independence-growing#ixzz2S9ekMWDj Follow us: @motherboard on Twitter | motherboardtv on Facebook

Since starting her blog, "Generación Y," in 2007, Sánchez has become the Castro regime's most internationally visible opponent. Her site gets millions of hits per month, and hundreds of thousands of people follow her on Twitter, and she uses those platforms to shed light on life within the western hemisphere's last true dictatorship. For more, check out the full post on Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/yoani-sanchez-dissident-blogger Follow Motherboard on Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard and like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/motherboardtv

Last summer, Motherboard met Mohammed and Nadia, a couple from Tripoli who had left their distressed home for six months to live in Jordan, where they hoped to conceive through in vitro fertilization with the help of one of the region's best doctors, and full government backing, as promised. Though they hadn't been hurt in the war, they considered it the government's duty to pay for their treatment. "We came here with their support, with their understanding that they would pay our bills," said Nadia. The process would turn out to be much more costly than they could have imagined. Read the original post: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/libya-in-vitro Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Follow Motherboard on Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Read our Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Motherboard TV: Behind the Scenes of Alan Moore's "Jimmy's End" By Kevin Holmes Many of Alan Moore's comics have been adapted for the big screen, but not many of them have met with his approval. So he went and wrote his own screenplay, the first one he's ever written, which turned into the film Jimmy's End. Pairing up with director Mitch Jenkins they've created an experience not unlike Moore's celebrated Watchmen--a rich, multilayered film with a narrative that will reward repeat viewings and will live on beyond the rectangular box of the screen, spilling out into the real world. The film is set in an alternate version of Northampton--Moore's hometown--in a working men's club, and explores an underlying dream time that coexists next to our own world, a nightmarish place of sleazy clowns and uncanny environments where some very strange things happen. Motherboard went behind the scenes to talk to Moore, Jenkins, and the cast and crew about making and creating this disturbing, intoxicating film. Distributed by Motherboard Jimmy's End: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/motherboard-tv-alan-moore-s-jimmy-s-end--2 The prologue: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/alan-moore-s-first-film-is-a-surreal-interactive-neo-noir-and-here-is-the-nsfw-prologue-video See more content at: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us See more videos (like this one): http://www.youtube.com/motherboard Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/motherboard Like us on the internet: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv

Oscar Niemeyer 101 - Motherboard Video for more architectural videos: http://www.architecturalvideos.blogspot.com Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Follow Motherboard on Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Read our Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin. Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Follow Motherboard on Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Read our Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

For one weekend every two years, the viral internet comes together IRL. Yup, it's as bad as it sounds. Bad, that is, in the Michael Jackson sense. ROFLCon, the brainchild of a few Harvard undergraduates, is a biennial gathering of the Internet's foremost makers of viral memes, their hardcore fanboys, and the net researchers who get excited about them (with a hefty dose of chin-rubbing, no doubt). Motherboard was at the second installment to hear from some of the biggest web celebs, those fleeting hits powerhouses that keep the Internet rolling on the floor laughing their three-wolf-moon t-shirts off or whatever: people like David After Dentist, Charlie 'Keyboard Cat' Schmidt, "the original Borat" Mahir, Ben Huh (The Cheezburger Network), the creators of This Is Why You're Fat, Regretsy, FU, Penguin, Stuff White People Like, and Alexey Vayner). Beyond luck, a penchant for irony and weirdness, and a keyboard (cat), there's no formula for getting your 15 MB of fame (or infamy). Then again, it may not matter. On the web, even failure will get ROFL'd right over. Tell us what you think in the comments below. And please, no flaming.

A year after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death, Motherboard wanted to see what he was up to on the other side. Motherboard editor Sean Yeaton sat down with Betsy Cohen, one of the top 10 psychics in New York and VICE's psychic medium to check in. Read more on Motherboard: Motherboard.tv/psychic Ask Betsy Cohen questions on Reddit today at 2pm EST: http://redd.it/11km6k Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Follow Motherboard on Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard Read our Tumblr: http://motherboardtv.tumblr.com/

Next Food Network Star Justin Warner uses jellyfish and ants to make a meal designed to sustain the savage hordes during the apocalypse. Hot Plates is Motherboard's palate-twisting take on the standard cooking show. Read the recipe at http://bit.ly/NCaIUx Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

In June 2012, we spoke to aquanauts on board Aquarius Reef Base, off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. This may be the last mission of the sealab: NOAA has recently cut funding for Aquarius. See the main film, "NEEMO Saves the World," at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7msH2Swq4 Read more at http://motherboard.vice.com

The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the particle and its energy field. But the LHC didn't do it alone. The search has been a massive, costly and unprecedented international effort that began thousands of miles away, at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie. read more at: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/25/motherboard-tv-a-death-on-the-frontier--4 Special thanks to Funky 49. "Particle Business" can be viewed in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaG6umMkbxg And more about Funky 49 here: http://funky49.bandcamp.com/

Music by Burning Star Core: https://burningstarcore.bandcamp.com/ Forty three years ago, on July 16, 1969, and forty two years before the Space Shuttle landed for the last time, three men would travel to the moon, set foot there, take a few photos, and come back. In tribute, I made this video with music courtesy of Burning Star Core using amazing lift-off footage captured from the umbilical tower of the Saturn V launch pad by a 16mm camera that was running at a whopping -- but normal-for-NASA -- 500 frames per second. See more at motherboard.vice.com http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/16/turn-it-up-to-apollo-11-an-hd-remix-of-rare-footage-of-the-first-moon-launch

The day before scientists at CERN announced they had discovered a "Higgs-like" particle, we asked some people in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, about it. We used every response we got to make this video. Read more at Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/4/hipster-pop-quiz-what-is-the-higgs-boson

David Rees is not kidding. He really does sharpen pencils for a living. Read more here : http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/4/19/motherboard-tv-the-finer-points-of-david-rees-artisanal-pencil-sharpener

Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond. Read more at http://motherboard.vice.com/read/motherboard-tv-free-the-network

Here is the teaser peek at our latest feature documentary, Free the Network, which looks at how DIY hack-tech is changing the discourse of modern day protests. Our story follows the trials of a pair of college dropouts who head up the Free Network Foundation, a peer-to-peer communications initiative seeking to liberate the global Internet from corporate clutches by building their own decentralized, cooperatively owned, free network, one wifi hotspot at a time.

A trailer for Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog.

Motherboard's 30-minute film on the grassroots movement to make thorium nuclear power a reality. Read more: http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/9/motherboard-tv-the-thorium-dream

Jason Silva, "techno-optimist transhumanist wunderkind," on the power of the technology we use every day and how it's informing the next evolutional revolution.

Watch the full video here: http://motherboard.vice.com/video/motherboard-tv-motherboard-meets-evan-glodell--2

Watch the film in its entirety at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9Ll5EX1jc. After the Fukushima disaster, nuclear energy faces it's biggest questions in decades. But a ragtag band of Internet enthusiasts is on a mission to spread their answer: more nuclear power than Walt Disney could have dreamed up, green enough to save the climate (the energy secretary and NASA's chief climate scientist are curious) and safe enough that if you walked away from the reactor it would calmly turn itself off. There's just one problem: the idea was already killed by the government forty years ago. Bringing it back won't be easy. But some are staking their whole livelihoods on it. That's just what life's like with the thorium dream.

See more at http://motherboard.tv/2011/7/8/shuttle-diplomacy-watch-neil-degrasse-tyson-explain-how-the-space-shuttle-was-never-really-about-science. Recorded at the World Science Festival, May 2011, New York City. By Alex Pasternack. Edited by Christopher O'Coin (http://chrisocoin.com/)

The Mind - Benders: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and the Hallucinogens, ca. 1970. ARC Identifier 13260 / Local Identifier 88.6. This film explores the history of hallucinogenic drugs, and specifically the effects and therapeutic uses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Combining graphics that suggest a hallucinogenic experience, snippets of interviews with users (who explain their reasons for taking the drug) and doctors, and taped sessions of research with volunteers, the film delves into the destructive as well as possible positive uses of the drug.

Never Four-get. Shot by Song Hia. See more at motherboard.tv

For more see http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/10/14/chuck-yeager-broke-the-sound-barrier-63-years-ago-today-video

Cousins Leon and Brian Dewan build every piece of their solid-state analog synthesizers. All the way down to the circuit boards. Motherboard stopped by their lab for a visit.

When American troops arrived in Nagasaki and stumbled upon one of the cameramen, from the legendary film company Nippon Eiga Sha, shooting amidst the rubble, they promptly arrested him and confiscated his film. The Americans would halt the entire production in fact. When they let it continue, they did so as producers, paying for the production and thus retaining the right to the film - and the right to keep it concealed for decades. Read more at Motherboard.tv

1 Hour 14 Minutes - Apollo 11 Post Flight Press Conference. Read more at Motherboard.tv