Motherboard Vice

Cyclodrones escort and protect you while you’re riding your bike

Jan 26, 2014

Someday in the not-too-distant future, you might take a bike ride with a couple of drones, one flying in front...

Reddit and Dogecoin are sending the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics

Jan 20, 2014

The Jamaican bobsled team, which was immortalized in the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings, qualified for Sochi after a 12-year absence...

Bitcoin is beginning to look like a legitimate currency

Jan 12, 2014

Bitcoin is difficult to categorize.  It's not really a commodity and not really a currency, it has created an entirely new...

40 years ago, Arthur C. Clarke predicted what computers would be like today

Dec 29, 2013

Arthur C. Clarke, best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, was able to not only able to predict what computers...

Martian colony reality TV show continues to make progress

Dec 28, 2013

Mars One’s goal is to build the first human settlement on Mars and essentially turn the whole mission into a...

Group of robots will compete to become the future of disaster response

Dec 6, 2013

A small group of robots will soon be competing at the DARPA Robotics Challenge as a part of an effort to  fast-track the...

Magnetic tape is humanity’s best hope for preserving its history

Dec 2, 2013

Scientists are currently working on way to ensure that the whole of humanity's history doesn't become lost in time. Modern...

The bitcoin pizza racket

Nov 29, 2013

It seems that everyone is making money of bitcoins these days, even pizza guys. Imagine selling lemonade on the street...

NASA’s halted research has serious implications for the future of deep space missions

Nov 23, 2013

NASA’s Planetary Science Division has been investing in Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG) technology with the intent to fabricate flight units...

German scientists have 3D-printed a dinosaur bone that was damaged in WWII

Nov 20, 2013

Many dinosaur fossils are preserved in plaster casts in order to protect them but it becomes difficult to remove the...

EPA promotes a reduction in the amount of ethanol required to be mixed into gasoline

Nov 17, 2013

Ethanol requirements were an attempt to curb global warming but proved to be wildly insufficient and possibly even detrimental. Now the Environmental...

Touring the deepest, darkest, unregulated parts of the internet

Nov 15, 2013

The Darknet is the name given tot he dark, unregulated parts of the internet that authorities can't reach. It is...