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The US Needs to Get Serious About Securing the Internet of Hackable Things
In an exclusive Motherboard op-ed, US Senator Mark Warner says last month's global WannaCry ransomware attack should be a wake up call for connected device security.
Deconstructing Binary Gender Norms Through Mutable Self-Portraits
Artist Alex Orellana deconstructs gender with photographs and code.
What’s Digitization Doing to Health Care?
New software is industrializing medicine by turning doctors into data entry clerks—and making them suicidally depressed in the process.
[Premiere] This Vaporwave Godzilla Was Born in Old Software Demos
Croatian artist Filip Ugrin dug up disks of old abadonware advertised in the sleeves of PC magazines.
SoundCloud Announces New Music Recommendation Feature Called The Upload
It uses machine learning to collect new music you might like in one place.
Clippy’s Designer Wants to Know Who Got Clippy Pregnant
Kevan Atteberry tells Motherboard about his role in creating one of computing history’s most iconic, notorious, and controversial characters (on a Mac!), and Clippy’s strange afterlife.
The Predecessor to Google Earth Was Clumsy, Yet Powerful
Terravision would have been weird and powerful, but it never stood a chance.
São Paulo’s Traffic Jams Are So Bad, It Made Mariana Avezum Design a Hyperloop Pod
The 27-year-old is still motivated by the legendarily bad congestion she experienced during her youth. Now she's helping build an alternate form of transit.
Programmers Are Racing to Save Apple II Software Before It Goes Extinct
We're living in a golden age of Apple II preservation.
How Third-Party Game Devs Reverse-Engineered Their Way Onto Your Consoles (and Into Your Heart)
Third-party developers weren’t always quite so revered in the video game industry, but a pair of legal decisions helped them earn their place at the table.