Radio Motherboard
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Description
The future is wonderful, the future is terrifying. We should know, we live there. Whether it's on the ground or on the web, Motherboard is traveling the world to uncover the stories that will define what's coming next. New technologies, cultures, and discoveries are constantly reshaping this old planet of ours. And it's happening faster than ever before. Radio Motherboard is all of that, in a fast-paced, fun, and informative podcast.
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CleanNet Neutrality | Net Neutrality | 12/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStress Week: Drone Therapy | Stress Week: Drone Therapy | 12/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStress Week: How to Hack New York Stress | Stress Week: How to Hack New York Stress | 12/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonus: Rebuilding the Swamp | Bonus: Rebuilding the Swamp | 11/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJane Goodall on chimps, feminism and Donald Trump | Jane Goodall on chimps, feminism and Donald Trump | 10/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCyberwar | Cyberwar | 10/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Tide Is Shifting in Silicon Valley | The Tide Is Shifting in Silicon Valley | 9/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPirates and Robots: A Conversation With Annalee Newitz | Pirates and Robots: A Conversation With Annalee Newitz | 9/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBig Tech's Blackballing of Neo-Nazi Sites Shows Who Controls the Internet | Radio Motherboard | 8/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFacebook Wants to Convince Us That VR Is Cool | Virtual reality adoption has been slow. Despite promising leaps in the tech over the past several decades, relatively few VR headsets have been sold worldwide, especially compared to smartphones. Can the world's most popular social network bring V... | 8/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInfamous Hacker Kevin Mitnick Tells Us How He Created Fake Identities | Radio Motherboard sits down with infamous hacker and computer security expert Kevin Mitnick—AKA The Condor—to discuss internet safety, online privacy, and the art of hacking. | 7/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGender-Swapping Sci-Fi With 'Ancillary Justice' Author Ann Leckie | The award-winning sci-fi novelist's new book 'Provenance' is due out September 26. A far-flung space empire on the verge of internal collapse? Check. A multi-body artificial intelligence that calls all people "she"? Si. Tea? O... | 7/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is Bitcoin really for? | Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies aren't just for making money. Enthusiasts often believe the technology could help give rise to a political revolution. But of what kind? On this week's episode, we talk to two researchers about the ideology ... | 7/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLooking Into the Future With Kim Stanley Robinson | Description: We talk to the award-winning sci-fi author about his new book, New York 2140. | 7/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRadio Motherboard Live: What Is the iPhone? | It's the 10th anniversary of the iPhone! Motherboard's Jason Koebler talks to Brian Merchant, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, about how Apple's most groundbreaking products changed our lives. | 6/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Update to Your Motherboard | Motherboard has a change in management! Starting today, Jason Koebler is taking over the keys to this website as its new editor-in-chief. To set a course for the future of the site, he sat down with Derek Mead—who had been running Motherboard for... | 6/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHow the Grateful Dead Anticipated the Future | Radio Motherboard talks time travel, sound tech, and why we're all living in the Grateful Dead's future, with Amir Bar-Lev, director of the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary about the band. | 6/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIntroducing Science Solved It | A mystery is only as good as its solution…at least, that’s what host Kaleigh Rogers believes. Science Solved It is a new weekly show from Motherboard that introduces listeners to the world’s greatest mysteries that were solved by science, with ins | 4/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVote for Motherboard, Come on Our Show! | We'll be back with a new episode tomorrow, but in the meantime, please vote for Motherboard in the Webbys: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2017/podcasts-digital-audio/general-podcasts/technology ... Then tweet at us telling us you voted... | 4/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWasting Time on the Internet | Have you ever tried a digital detox? Or spending less time on Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit? Kenneth Goldsmith definitely hasn't. He's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches a class called "Wasting Time on the Int... | 4/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Only FCC Commissioner Still Fighting For Your Online Privacy | Congress just voted to repeal the FCC's privacy rules that prevent your internet provider from selling your personal data to the highest bidder. Last week, Radio Motherboard talked to Mignon Clyburn—the only Democrat on the commission—who is still.. | 3/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYou Have the Right to Repair Your Electronics | Radio Motherboard talks to Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, and Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.org about legislation that is moving through eight states that would require electronics manufacturers to enable you to fix your things. The bills . | 3/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIntroducing pluspluspodcast, a new show from Motherboard | Motherboard is launching a brand new show! This is a preview for "pluspluspodcast," a fully produced, documentary-style show that takes you on the road with Motherboard reporters as we meet with the people who are helping shape our shared, cr... | 3/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLIVE PODCAST: The Motherboard Guide to Defending the Future | Radio Motherboard's first ever LIVE EPISODE! On February 12, the Radio Motherboard crew recorded a podcast in front of a live audience at the Work x Work On Air festival. We talked about what it means to be vigilant in Trump's America and dis... | 2/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe End of Ownership | The internet of things, End User License Agreements, and Digital Rights Management are increasingly being used to give electronics manufacturers control and ownership over your stuff even after you buy it. Radio Motherboard talks to Aaron... | 2/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeme Warfare | Radio Motherboard discusses the extent that memes have taken over political discourse with Ryan Milner, a College of Charleston assistant professor who wrote his PhD. dissertation on memetics. We also discuss the idea of meme warfare, meme... | 1/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSuper Mario Is Not a Human Being | A preview for the new Nintendo Switch has brought us to the startling realization that Super Mario is not a homo sapien. On this episode, we discuss the geographic location of the Mushroom Kingdom and how excited we should be for Nintendo’s new... | 1/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Race to Save Government Science From Trump | Dozens of scientists working at schools like the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Toronto, and a handful of others are frantically working on a series of projects to preserve government science from alteration or deletion . | 1/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Disease We're Getting Wrong | Diabetes is usually considered a disease of excess—so why are so many starving people in India getting it? | 12/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Will We Have 'Westworld' Robots? | Like much of America, we are big fans of HBO's 'Westworld,' but not because of the science in the show. To be honest, the show doesn't really bother trying to explain how its hosts work, but in doing so, it allows the show to ask so... | 12/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour Next T-Shirt Could Be Made Out of Seaweed | Motherboard takes a trip to Biofabricate, a synthetic biology conference at the Parsons School of Design. We talk to Aaron Nesser and Kenji Higashi, two entrepreneurs who are hoping that fibers made of spider silk and alginate could help clean up our d. | 12/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump's Powers | Motherboard's writers, editors, and contributors have spent the last week talking to activists, researchers, and policy makers about the powers that Donald Trump will inherit when he takes power in January. There's little sense in speculating... | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonald Trump's Dystopia and Black Mirror | We couldn't ignore the fact that an impending Trump presidency feels like a Black Mirror episode. We discuss his campaign and the election through the lens of Black Mirror, and discuss 'San Junipero,' 'Men Against Fire,' and ... | 11/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Black Mirror' Season 3 Episodes 1-3 | We’ve always sort of called Charlie Brooker’s “Black Mirror” the Motherboard show, because while we love tech, we’re probably a bit more wary of its ability to lean dystopian than your average tech publication. So this week and next, we’re g | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWerner Herzog On Science, Language, Mars, and His Volcano Fever Dreams | Werner Herzog doesn’t care what you think about him, about his mythos. He does care about myth, the stories people tell and why. His newest movie, "Into The Inferno," in which he tours six active volcanoes around the world, is as much about t... | 10/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Berlin Station' and 'Americatown’ | 'Berlin Station' is a new spy drama/thriller from the cable network EPIX, which focuses on a leak of classified information at the titular CIA office, and the agents tracking it down. Motherboard spoke to series writers Brad Winters and Larry... | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleaniPhone Touch Disease | Tens of thousands of iPhone 6 Plus phones have been spontaneously losing their touchscreen capability because of an engineering flaw, but Apple still won't admit there's a problem. Motherboard spoke to Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, about what... | 10/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLuxury Week | Motherboard reflects on a week exploring time, money and how we decide what to value. | 10/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Periods | Periods are having a moment in mainstream consciousness. We talk to Kiran Gandhi, a drummer and activist about how the technology and ideas are menstruation are changing, and what it was like to run a marathon “free bleeding.” | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Facts Don't Matter in the 2016 Presidential Election | Between the hours of 3 AM and 5 AM Friday morning, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm in which he was, you know, just saying that Hillary Clinton helped former Miss Universe (and a target of Trump’s misogyny) Alicia... | 9/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan 'Snowden' the Movie Save Snowden the Man? | At times, Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ feels like a remake of ‘Citizenfour,’ Laura Poitras’s Oscar-winning documentary. Citizenfour is the superior film, but Stone’s spy thriller is still a fun look into this generation’s most important whis | 9/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRocko's Modern Life Predicted Our Lame Future | On this episode of Radio Motherboard, we speak with Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, about the show's upcoming hour-long special and how a show about a 90s vision of modern living has stayed relevant today. We also chat with Sean Y... | 9/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInside the Tesla Gigafactory | Elon Musk’s new temple of energy is open for business in the middle of the desert outside Reno, Nevada. A few weeks ago, I went to the opening of the Tesla Gigagfactory, where Musk proposes to ramp up production of car batteries to the point where... | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Real Impact Your Phone Has on the World | Your phone uses the equivalent of two refrigerators’ worth of electricity every year. If you add in all of the electricity required to store and move data across high-speed cable and wireless networks and climate-controlled server farms to... | 9/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeslie Jones and the Ethics of Amplifying Online Harassment | Soon after news broke that Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones’s website had been hacked and replaced with stolen nude photos and racist memes, I got an urgent email from Whitney Phillips, one of the world’s foremost experts on online trolling and... | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Hacking | As our lives become ever more digitized, the security of our data will become ever more important to protect. So far, judging by the daily routine of data breaches and large scale hacks, it seems like we're failing to secure our most precious... | 8/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean#fsociety Episode 1: How a Motherboarder Became a Writer for Mr. Robot | Hello, friend. If you’ve been a Radio Motherboard listener, you know that we’re big fans of Mr. Robot, USA’s moody, disorienting hacker drama. In fact, Motherboard and Mr. Robot’s respective moods align so closely that Amy Teitel, a former... | 7/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHello World | Radio Motherboard's Jason Koebler and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai are going to talk about the real-life hacks that we see in Mr. Robot season two. This is #fsociety, coming your way all summer. | 7/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitReflecting on 'Independence Day,' the Greatest Hacking Movie Ever | This podcast contains spoilers for Independence Day and Independence Day 2: Resurgence. We had 20 years to prepare. That's the tagline for Independence Day 2. It refers to Earth, and how long we had to get ready for a second alien... | 7/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInside the Dark World of Online 'Competitive Tickling' | David Farrier is used to uncovering bizarre information. But his latest project investigating the online world of competitive tickling was a lesson in the strange side of life, even for him. We talked to the journalist and filmmaker about his new... | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Skipped Showering for Two Weeks and Bathed in Bacteria Instead | For two weeks, Motherboard writer Kate Lunau skipped her soap and deodorant—spritzing herself with a “live bacteria spray” instead. Her goal was to colonize her skin with ammonia-eating bacteria, which are supposed to neutralize the smell of sweat | 6/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Case for Giving Everyone Free Money | Sometime in the last few weeks, or months, or years, you may have heard about this idea called “universal basic income.” It’s the idea that maybe governments should give a monthly stipend—no questions asked—to everyone who lives there. It’s | 6/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Uber Left Austin | Remember when Uber came to your city? It was probably exciting—you could hail a car without talking to anyone or standing on a cold, rainy corner. It’s so easy, maybe you thought. Maybe the taxi commission or some local politicians expressed worry a | 5/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Moon Walking, Alien-Hunting, Psychic Astronaut Who Got Sued By NASA | Edgar Mitchell, who passed away in February at the age of 85, was exceptional, even among astronauts. Like an archetypal moon man, he was a Boy Scout and a military test pilot with a protestant upbringing and an impressive command of engineering and ae. | 5/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Battle for Klingon | Even if you’re not a Trekkie, you’ve got to feel for the Klingons of Earth. Their language is under threat of being taken back by the very company that commissioned its creation, raising the very important question: Can a language even be copyrighte | 5/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe DeLonge Con | Former Blink 182 guitarist Tom DeLonge has a new project: telling the world the truth about UFOs. DeLonge has always been interested in the supernatural, and he’s been researching and reporting the topic as part of a multimedia project called Sekret M | 4/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Silicon Divide | We often talk about the gender gap in Silicon Valley—there are far too few female computer engineers and startup founders—but there’s one field where women do dominate Silicon Valley: public relations. Most research suggests that about 70 percen | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFronterizas (en español) | En esta edición muy especial de Radio Motherboard, viajamos a la zona fronteriza entre los Estados Unidos y México para evaluar la viabilidad de "control remoto," una nueva táctica de contrabando en que los migrantes guía de contrabando a tra... | 4/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBorder Lines | In this very special edition of Radio Motherboard we travel to the US-Mexico borderlands to gauge the viability of "remote control," a new smuggling tactic in which smugglers guide migrants across the border by phone. | 4/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSong Exploder, Exploded | Ever notice that the piano part from “Dancing Queen” is tucked into the end of MGMT’s song “No Time To Pretend”? Or that The Album Leaf kept the squeaking of an old piano pedal in the final recording of their song “The Outer Banks?” These | 4/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTo Block or Not to Block, Featuring Talib Kweli | Twitter is a place where anyone can say anything, to anyone, at any time. But what happens when you don’t want to hear what someone else has to say? What if someone is attacking you personally, or getting all their friends to attack you? On this week | 3/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHow 'The X-Files' Got Its Creepy Theme Music | Hollywood, 1992. Mark Snow was already a pro at TV scores—dramas, procedurals, comedies—when a producer recommended him to Chris Carter, a veteran of Disney TV movies who needed music for a new TV pilot, The X Files, an unlikely supernatural procedu | 3/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitDouble Episode! Cortana Abuse/Why Humans Should Be More Like AI | Sometimes, it can be hard to know how to act around artificial intelligence. In the first half of Radio Motherboard this week, staff writer Jason Koebler explores how people treat Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana when no one’s listening. (A s | 3/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitHow to Think About the Biggest Earthquake Ever | So scientists are saying an earthquake—a quake that is so big and so powerful you probably can’t even properly comprehend it—is probably going to hit your city, hard. It could be five years out, ten years, fifty years, or it could be tomorrow. But | 3/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhy You Should Own Your Cable Box | The tyranny of the set-top box may soon be over. The way it works now, you’re forced to rent a cable box from the likes of Time Warner Cable and Comcast to the tune of about $230 per year. The very idea that in 2016 you need a dedicated piece of ha | 2/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanApple vs the FBI | Earlier this week, a federal judge in California ordered Apple to help the FBI brute force hack into the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, setting up a legal showdown that could have far-reaching ramifications for the fu | 2/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitVideo Games Are Missing Black Voices (Literally) | There aren’t many black characters in video games with speaking roles, which is why it’s controversial when some of them are voiced by white actors. The most recent example is Nadine Ross, the strong, black, female antagonist in the upcoming Unchart | 2/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Hyperloop | The hyperloop, Elon Musk’s futuristic, tube-based “fifth mode of transportation” has stoked imaginations unlike any recent transportation technology except for maybe self driving cars. Lots has been said about it—Musk called it a “cross betwee | 2/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKickstarter - Failure to Launch | The Zano drone raised £2.3 million in one of the most successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns of all time. A year later all the money is gone, Zano’s creator is having a nervous breakdown, and its 13,000 backers are livid. | 1/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitA Practical Guide to Sleep Hacking Your Room | What does it take to get a good night’s sleep? In this episode of Radio Motherboard, managing editor Adrianne Jeffries talks to the greatest sleep hacker she knows: her little brother William. We cover blackout curtains, smart light bulbs, sleep headp | 1/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitFree Basics | If you live in India, or happen to have visited in the past month, you probably noticed the seemingly-ubiquitous advertising for something called Free Basics. It's what you might call a full-court press: full-page ads in newspapers, billboards, an... | 1/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Community-Owned ISPs Building an Alternative to Big Telecom in New York City | If you want high speed internet in most any spot in New York City, you’re stuck with Time Warner Cable. Or at least, that’s how it usually works. But increasingly around the city, citizens and small community groups are setting up their own locally | 1/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explicit2015 - The Year in Science Fiction | 2015 was a banner year for science fiction; Motherboard's resident sci-fi editors, Claire Evans and Brian Merchant, review the year of Mad Max, Ex Machina, and, yes, Star Wars. These are the top stories about the future of 2015. | 12/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTranshumanists in Their Own Words | Transhumanism, the idea that humans should use science and technology to extend our natural abilities, is the religion of the 21st century. It's a concept that has been around since the 70s, but seems to be resonating with a growing number of peop... | 12/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEverything You Wanted to Know About the New York City Subway | The New York City subway is sprawling system, with more than 5 million people per day (and sometimes many more, on special occasions) passing through more than 460 stations. There is probably someone who knows more about the intricacies of the system t. | 12/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCryptoparty in Harlem | Ever heard of a cryptoparty? It’s a gathering of people interested in privacy and encryption. You’ll often hear of cryptoparties in association with other techy, geeky spaces or organizations, and they’re usually dominated by computer-savvy nerds | 12/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitNASA's Long-Lost Lunar Rover | Earlier this fall, we brought you the curious story of a long lost lunar rover prototypetested by NASA in the 1960s. At the time, we decided to keep some of the details off the record, but for this week's podcast, we delve deep into the rover... | 12/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExpliciteSports, Adderall, and Nootropics | It's Lit Up week at Motherboard, which means we're talking about drugs. And what's more fun than that? Weekend/gaming editor Emanuel Maiberg and managing editor Adrianne Jeffries pop some Alpha BRAIN and OptiMind to try and perk up the ... | 11/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Big Guns Go Down | Earlier this week, Motherboard published a year-long investigation that revealed the Pentagon has been sending defective gun parts to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. In more than 60 cases, the barrels of guns have literally exploded and, in at least . | 11/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy 'Fallout 4' Is a Niche Video Game | Did you hear? Fallout 4, the video game for people who are serious about video games, is finally out. Do you care? If you're reading this rather than obsessively exploring a post nuclear disaster Boston, maybe not. Or maybe you're just taking... | 11/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhy Putting Your Water Damaged Phone in Rice Is Dumb and Doesn't Work | One time, I misjudged the depth of a creek, stepped in, and was literally in over my head. Not that much of a problem, except I had various electronics in my backpack. As thousands (millions?) of people have done, I stuck my phone and camera in a bowl . | 11/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMr. Robot | It's been an astoundingly good couple years for television shows and movies that fit into the Motherboard orb of interest. Whenever people ask me what Motherboard is, I tell them we write about stories that are like Black Mirror, but real. Now, I... | 10/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Culture Where the Dead Walk Among the Living | It's almost Halloween, so Motherboard is exploring the very nature of fear. Why do we still get scared by things that no longer represent any threat to us? How has technology changed how we feel fear? And what happens in a culture that reveres dea... | 10/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhy Does Facebook Suggest You Friend Your Tinder Matches? | When you log into Facebook, you'll see a list of "suggested friends." They're full of people you went to high school with, random colleagues, and a bunch of people that you do sort of know ... but why does Facebook know that you kno... | 10/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMotherboard Discusses 'The Martian' and Why We Killed Comments | Two major, solar system-shaking things happened this week. 'The Martian' came out, and we're all thankful that it ended up being a very good film. And Motherboard killed comments. These two things aren't even remotely related, but ... | 10/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitVint Cerf, Peeple, and Elementary School Sci Fi | Radio Motherboard talks to Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet and Google's "internet evangelist," about the company's plans to fly internet-providing balloons over the developing world, encryption and security, and a horr... | 10/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitYeast That Make THC, Climate Divestment, and Cliff Diving | Scientists have just proven for the first time that it's possible to engineer yeast to make THC, arguably the most important chemical in marijuana. But do we want to get high using lab-made drugs when the real thing works so well? On this week... | 9/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitForever War, Superbugs, and an Ultrasound That Controls Your Brain | This week is ALL FRONTS, Motherboard's deep dive into what a future of forever war looks like. On this episode of Radio Motherboard, we talk about what it means to always be at war and how technology and automation have made it possible to stay in... | 9/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitiPhones, Free Money, and Hacking Team | If you've been listening to Radio Motherboard the last few months, thank you very much: It's been a bit of a roller coaster as we try to figure out a format and recording setup that works best for us, and it's been a blast experimenting.... | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAre You a Jerk If You Vacation in Cuba? | If you're American, it's easier than ever to go to Cuba, a country that's remained, mas o menos, off limits for the last 60 years or so. In fact, you can go to cheapair.com, buy a ticket, fill out a couple forms confirming you fit into o... | 9/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Pokemon World Championships | Who goes to the Pokemon World Championships in 2015? Well, we did, for one—mostly to find out who else was there. Well over a decade after its heyday, Pokemon is still going strong. There's now nearly 800 Pokemon, but there are still lots of kids,... | 8/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAre Uber Drivers Employees? | Uber drivers set their own hours, file taxes independently, and often own their cars. They don’t get health insurance from Uber and they don’t wear uniforms. And yet, Uber controls much of what they do by setting prices, handling their tips, and mic | 8/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Would-Be Astronaut | Brian Shiro really wants to go to space. He wants to go to space so badly, in fact, that he’s applied to NASA’s astronaut program. Twice. Both times he fell just short. He’s hoping the third time’s the charm. Until then, he’ll be heading up As | 8/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitTwilight of the Bomb | We travel to the crater of the first atomic bomb with one of the youngest and last surviving Manhattan Project scientists. This is his story. | 8/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSleepaway Camp for a 38-Year-Old Computer | When did you get rid of your last computer or cell phone? It was probably pretty recently—we replace our technology all the time. But it's not this way for everyone: A contingent of diehard retro computing enthusiasts are still programming, hackin... | 7/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMeet Motherboard | For the last six months or so, you've been listening to us talk at you about simulated universes and head transplants and transhumanism and all sorts of topics (and we thank you very much for that). But we haven't really told you all that muc... | 7/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat Have We Learned from the Ebola Outbreak? | It’s now been just over a year and a half of the biggest Ebola outbreak in history. We’ve dabbled in vaccines, but the best prevention method is still abstaining from contact with symptomatic patients, and the best treatment is still basically hydra | 7/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitGawker vs Hulk Hogan | In October 2012, the gossip site Gawker published an edited video of Hulk Hogan having sex. In response, the former pro-wrestler sued the company. It's now going to court in a case that could have wide-ranging consequences for the First Amendment. | 7/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAMERICA VOTES | On this most American of holidays, it’s a good time to take a look at how we select the people who run this ol’ country many of you call home. Like everything else, social media and technology are playing a huge role in campaign strategy. Much | 7/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Will World War III Look Like? | We assume that the next world war will be a technological one, but the United States and its potential adversaries are increasingly developing tech designed to blast enemies into the past. In Ghost Fleet, real cybersecurity and war experts Peter W. Sin | 6/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitSmartphones Make Dating Terrible (Feat. Aziz Ansari) | We're all living two lives. We've got whatever's going on in the physical world, and then we've got our online personas—our Facebook and Twitter profiles, our Gchat lives, our Reddit accounts, our OKCupid and Tinder profiles. How do... | 6/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThis Is Your Brain on Technology | What happens to our brains and our psyche when a huge portion of humanity spends their lives persistently jacked in to their computers, their tablets, their smartphones, their screens? We don't really know—in a sense, we're performing one mas... | 6/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMad Max, Ex Machina, and Tomorrowland—Motherboard's Summer Sci-Fi Bonanza Extravaganza | It's only June, and it's already been a very good summer for sci-fi. From the soaring optimism of Tomorrowland to the postapocalyptic dreariness of Mad Max to the outright unsettling nature of Ex Machina, there's already been plenty of s... | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitElon Musk's Plan for Humanity | We talk about Elon Musk and his companies, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity all the time, but what is Musk's longterm plan? How do the companies fit together and, should Musk manage to create a reusable rocket or launch an array of internet-providi... | 5/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe History of Bitcoin | In this episode of Radio Motherboard, we talked to New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper about the process of researching his new book about Bitcoin. We also spoke to Courtney Marie Warner, who loves Bitcoin, even though it put her boyfriend in pris. | 5/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSee, Click, Kill | *This podcast contains spoilers for the movie Good Kill* The military's drone pilots are physically removed from the battlefield, but, seven days a week, they spend 12-hour days staring at a screen, waiting for orders to kill from above. And then... | 5/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitAre We Living in a Simulation? | The world seems real, but is it really? As humans get better at simulating artificial intelligence, it seems at least plausible that we could create life that is both conscious and has free will. And if we can create conscious life, who's to say t... | 5/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEmbedding With the Internet's Worst Trolls | Why would someone willingly spend years hanging out with people who make fun of recently dead teens? To write a book about the experience, of course. Motherboard meets Whitney Phillips, a Humboldt State University researcher and author of 'This... | 4/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Human Head Transplant | In 2017, Valery Spiridonov hopes to become the first human to have his head transplanted onto a new body. We talk to Val, his would-be surgeon Sergio Canavero, and Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist about the process. Then, Motherboard's staff talks ... | 4/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitGoodbye, Meatbags! | Do we have to die? The world's first transhumanist candidate for president doesn't think so. | 4/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEverything You Need to Know About the Silk Road Trial | The Silk Road trial has only been going on for two weeks, and already it’s had its fair share of drama: There have been setups by the prosecution, accusations and alternative theories tossed out by the defense, and, yes, selfies. Moth | 3/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitCopyright Law Is a Beautiful Trainwreck | If you see the words “copyright” and “law” juxtaposed next to each other, and your eyes glaze over, we don’t necessarily blame you. But copyright law is insane, and a wonderful, constant source of nutty human interest cases that explore ev | 3/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitWhat Would a ‘Serial’-Like Murder Investigation Look Like Today? | The first season of the ultra-popular podcast Serial is over, but lots of questions remain, in no small part due to the lack of evidence tying then-high school student Adnan Syed to the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Huge swaths o | 12/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitA Conversation With Laura Poitras, Director of ‘Citizenfour’ | In her filmmaking, the director Laura Poitras—my guest on this edition of Radio Motherboard—likes to document reality as it happens, those moments of uncertainty that often don’t appear on film. “There’s something about how we look at the | 12/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEverything You Ever Wanted to Know About ‘Interstellar’ | Interstellar may not be a great film—then again, it might be—but it does cut to the heart of quite a few of the themes we regularly hit on here at Motherboard: Space colonization, ecological collapse, near and far future dystopias, theoretical physi | 12/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I love Vice/Mobo
But I'm kind of baffled how Vice could allow something of such poor quality to be published under their banner. I'm not talking about the content (content is incredible) but sound quality is so bad that I can't listen to it while working in my shop. I really wish these guys were given the proper equipment and time to polish this podcast. Vice has really slacked in the podcast world and to finally find this and realize how poor the sound quality is was a big let down.
One of my favorite podcasts
This podcast picks awesome thought provoking topics to discuss and the hosts are very like-able. If you like technology they have a one of a kind podcast that you need to subscribe to.
