If you weren’t alive to witness Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the Washington Mall 48 years ago this week, you might try to switch on the old YouTube and dial it up. But you won’t find it there or anywhere else; rights to its usage...

There are plenty of things that make Tabloid newsworthy – sex, Mormons, kidnapping, cloning – but it was by total chance that Errol Morris’ documentary opened in theaters just as the tabloid-worthy “British hacking scandal” was descending upon a slice of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid empire.

It was also by considerable...

In his review in the New York Times today, Michael Kinsley calls Page One, the documentary about the New York Times, “a mess.” He’s right, but not in the way he thinks it is.

This is a movie about the news industry: of course it’s messy. Director Andrew Rossi...

[Motherboard]: The Tacoma, WA-based company Internet Identity wasn't meant to be a security outfit. When Rod Rasmussen started it in 1996, he was providing simple enterprise services like email. And then, in 1997, as tends to happen on the internet, someone did something bad: they set up an...

When Space Shuttle Endeavor lifts off from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center next week as scheduled, it will be unusually notable. First, it's the second-to-last launch of a shuttle, before the whole program is retired later this year. Second, the craft's commander, Mark Kelly, is the husband of...

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Facing the likelihood of state budget cuts that would eliminate $15 million for library and reading programs -- and, apparently, a future in which people no longer read things on paper -- the city of Newport Beach is considering turning its first library into a...

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Somewhere in the wake of the panels and the keynotes, the trade show booths, pitch sessions, free tacos, apps, lines for free tacos, maps, parties, energy drinks, branded lighters, metrics reports, the impromptu meetings around tables already strewn with a forest's worth of...

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We all know that as technology empowers us to do more, it carries with it all manner of problems. But one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us: We're not free.

So argues Tim Wu, law professor,...

Motherboard.tv: Websites go down. Countries block citizens’ access. But entire countries’ websites don’t just disappear from the Internet.

And then they do. In Egypt, at precisely 12:34 a.m. EET (22:34 UTC) on Friday morning, the government apparently shut down Internet access not just...

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He’s reminded us of our terrible political discourse and gun control policies, but the insane 22-year-old who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders on Saturday isn’t a representative of Tea Party vitriol. A believer in government slavery and hologram worlds, a lover...

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After an advance screening of “The Social Network,” I met an excited film student from NYU outside the theater and asked him what he thought of the movie. He focused on the film’s contemporaneity, its speed, which I couldn’t stop thinking about either.

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“I’m sorry if they are disappointed.”

That’s how Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, actually responded to a USA Today reporter at a press conference today, in response to a question about how doggone annoyed newspaper readers and internet users were that

The Chinese government has been running a hacking ring that launched a hack attack on Google earlier this year, according to a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks yesterday.

And it wasn’t a simple matter of corporate espionage or a strategic show of cyber force: according to a secret “contact”...

Mention social good to generation Y -- or other generations for that matter -- and the focus easily turns to high tech innovation. It's an angle emphasized by big events like TED, which emit a steady feed of technology-heavy ideas.

Take the Rolex Young Laureates Program, the watch company's...

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Of course, science tells us, we’re all products of our environment. Just like our ability to be creative, our scientific prowess depends upon how easy it is for us to share ideas. And there’s no better place for...

If "The Social Network," a partly-fictional rendition of Facebook's founding, is version 2.0 of "The Great Gatsby" or "Citizen Kane," then "Catfish," a clever new documentary about fantasy, desire, and the slippery place of truth online, is "The Wizard of Oz" for the Internet generation. As the burgeoning "Facebook" genre...

Mark Zuckerberg is on a crusade to open up the world. It's a crusade that echoes the ambitions of emperors and kings, and it just so happens that he's got an imperial quality, the outgrowth perhaps of his academic interest in the classics. In a profile in this week's

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The morning of September 11 was a quiet one in New York City. And after the roaring boom of a commercial airplane smashing into a building, it didn't get very much louder. The chatter on the newscasts that morning was idling, wondering,...

Forget about the alarmism over what Facebook is doing to old ideas of privacy, or to our free time, or to our relationship with advertising. What does it mean for the social connections that help us live long lives?

The argument is well rehearsed: as much as we connect...

Public transportation is one of the world's great democratizing forces, and a major driver of its economic growth. Everyone can use public transit to get to work, to get to school, to get to the museum or the movies, to the game or to dinner, to go home.

But amidst...