Radio Motherboard

Jul 24 2023 131 ep. 39 mins 8.5k
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Adam Conover Talks the Hollywood Strike

Jul 24 2023 43 mins  
It’s a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows you’ve had on your list forever. But did you know the people who make the fine entertainment you know and love are on strike? Both writers and actors are picketing, trying to get a fair shake out of the studios and companies that bet big on streaming

[Bonus] Introducing CYBER, a Hacking Podcast by Motherboard

Jan 23 2019 1 mins  
Motherboard has launched a new podcast, called CYBER. It's available on Apple Podcasts and on whatever app you listen to.Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franc

NASA Turns 60

Sep 30 2018 56 mins  
NASA turns 60 this week. We're joined by Former NASA chief technologist Mason Peck joins us to discuss the agency’s history of spaceflight milestones, which include landing humans on the Moon (six times!), putting rovers on Mars, sending probes to interstellar space, and partnering on the International Space Station. Beyond these physical exploration achievements, NASA has also r

[BONUS] Introducing Queerly Beloved

Sep 12 2018 20 mins  
If you've been enjoying Radio Motherboard, we think you'll also love our newest VICE podcast, Queerly Beloved.Queerly Beloved ​is a new podcast series from Broadly. Co-hosted by Broadly editor Sarah Burke and Fran Tirado of the popular queer podcast Food 4 Thot, it’s a multifaceted portrait of LGBTQ chosen family—the people who help us figure out who we are and inspire us to

Motherboard's New Crossword Puzzle: Solve the Internet

Jun 12 2018 18 mins  
Radio Motherboard talks to Caleb Madison and Marley Randazzo about Solve the Internet, Motherboard's new internet-themed weekly crossword puzzle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sex Workers Lobby Congress Against a Terrible Internet Law

Jun 07 2018 38 mins  
Radio Motherboard talks to Liara Roux, a sex worker who was part of the first ever organized effort by her industry to lobby Congress. We talk about SESTA/FOSTA, a law that puts sex workers in danger and has fundamentally changed the internet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PewDiePie, Alinity, and the Burden of Being a Female Streamer

Jun 05 2018 45 mins  
Radio Motherboard breaks down the harassment that has been leveled against Twitch streamer Alinity and other women online, as well as the phenomenon of YouTube's "Twitch Fails" videos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elon Musk, Then and Now

May 31 2018 38 mins  
Radio Motherboard pulls a 2015 interview with Elon Musk's biographer Ashlee Vance, and talks about how perceptions about Musk and his companies have changed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Facebook’s Reckoning with American Nazis

May 29 2018 61 mins  
After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amplifying the Alt-Right

May 24 2018 76 mins  
Whitney Phillips, the author of a new report called "The Oxygen of Amplification," talks about what she learned by talking to more than 50 journalists who covered the alt-right and white supremacists during the 2016 election cycle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.