David Burt was one of the few who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. He's gambling that history is going to repeat itself soon. | Continue reading
An engineering professor who accepted donations from Epstein is advising a freshman seminar at MIT this semester. | Continue reading
Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030. | Continue reading
Voyager 2 passed through the borderland between the Sun and interstellar space and found something new and puzzling that Voyager 1 missed. | Continue reading
Mozilla's letter comes after Motherboard published a Comcast lobbying document, in which the ISP pushed back against a form of browsing data encryption. | Continue reading
The only working rover on Mars continues its journey through a crater that once held water. | Continue reading
'Dead Cells' was made in an environment where workers shared equal power, equal pay, and equal profits. That's not how things will work at the new studio, Evil Empire. | Continue reading
Even in 2019, women in Silicon Valley experience extreme forms of pregnancy discrimination. | Continue reading
David Burt was one of the few who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. He's gambling that history is going to repeat itself soon. | Continue reading
Gabapentin is approved for treating seizures and nerve pain, yet 95 percent of the time it’s used for other conditions, without strong research to back it up. With recent links to overdose and reports of suicide, why is still being used so much? | Continue reading
Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO’s exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire' last year. | Continue reading
But at least it’s open source and transparent, unlike efforts by countless other companies, those same data scientists say. | Continue reading
A small group of drug users swear by purposefully bad trips. In them, they find positive gain rather than just sweaty panic. | Continue reading
The move comes after Uber decided not to provide the location data according to a Los Angeles Department of Transportation deadline. | Continue reading
The controversial Israeli spyware company is more involved in hacking targets than previously believed, according to sources. | Continue reading
An international group of advocates are urging the U.N. to do something about the ostracization and violence. | Continue reading
How easy is it to exploit Airbnb? While searching for my grifter, I found out. | Continue reading
UAP eXpeditions is made up of former military officials, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and academics. | Continue reading
As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment? | Continue reading
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the social network will not accept political ads starting on November 22, and promised more details when the final rules are published in two weeks. | Continue reading
AlphaStar achieved Grandmaster status the old fashioned way: grinding through matches with human opponents to move up the leaderboard. | Continue reading
It's more likely that it's not that you're getting worse at video games, it's that everyone got a lot better. | Continue reading
That's the good news. The bad news is that the files being cataloged are the ones scattered in the photo you see here. | Continue reading
Corellium responds to Apple's lawsuit saying the startup is good for society and accusing Apple of owing it money. | Continue reading
"Worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced," Valve says. | Continue reading
The French Foreign Legion is where criminals and transients go for a new identity that's fraught with intense military training. "Dave" from Ottawa jumped into the fray before escaping in dramatic fashion. | Continue reading
The Tamagotchi-inspired device helps wandering hackers to crack Wi-Fi passwords while looking adorable. | Continue reading
The FANGo charger hijacks your phone and creates junk data by aimlessly clicking, searching, and scrolling through sites like Amazon and Youtube | Continue reading
Donut crumbs also once tested positive for meth. | Continue reading
The government will study DeLonge's mysterious 'exotic' metals, active camouflage, 'beamed energy propulsion' and a host of other wild technologies. | Continue reading
A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access. | Continue reading
Comcast has spent the last day trying to tell anyone who shared an article about its lobbying efforts that the lobbying is innocent. | Continue reading
Rectangles: A boring shape for boring people. | Continue reading
A New Hampshire lawmaker suggested that we shouldn't fix the $1,000 devices we buy and instead we will "just get a new one." | Continue reading
The harvesting of peat has created jobs and heated homes across Ireland for centuries, but local environmentalists say it’s time to start treating the land differently. | Continue reading
Some cybersecurity experts and regular users were surprised to learn about a Chrome tool that scans Windows computers for malware. But there’s no reason to freak out about it. | Continue reading
"Nobody is running the day-to-day business. It's such a shit show," said one current employee. | Continue reading
We spoke with Johan Anderson about his storied career, from early days to dealing with the failings of Imperator: Rome. | Continue reading
Technologists, hackers, and journalists recap the third episode of the final season of the realistic hacking show. | Continue reading
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects. | Continue reading
Visual crashes boil down to a glitch in the way we recognize and understand images. | Continue reading
'Spacetime foam' might just be the wildest thing in the known universe, and we're just starting to understand it. | Continue reading
Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States. | Continue reading
Venture capital subsidizes unprofitable businesses like WeWork and Uber. Society pays the price. | Continue reading
A look at the logic behind putting those convicted of certain crimes behind bars on weekends while letting them go free during the week. | Continue reading
Motherboard has obtained a leaked presentation internet service providers are using to try and lobby lawmakers against a form of encrypted browsing data. | Continue reading