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Motherboard travels the world to uncover the tech and science stories that define what's coming next for this quickly-evolving planet of ours.

A SMARTER GUN [44 MIN | 2017]

The players behind the movement to create smart guns that only fire in the hands of approved users, are blocked at every turn. A Smarter Gun, an original documentary investigation from VICE’s tech channel Motherboard, is the story of why.

America is a gun culture. It always has been. With an estimated 260 to 300 million guns in the national gun stock today, firearms aren't going anywhere. And it would appear the political will to craft robust nationwide gun control legislation remains dead in the water.

INHUMAN KIND [29 MIN | 2015]

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A Motherboard feature documentary about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots-the same platforms the military has weaponized-and to a pair of DARPA's six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots.

ISLAND OF THE APES [17 MIN | 2014]

The story of Liberia’s 'Monkey Island,' an area inhabited solely by former lab tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars.

Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover 'Monkey Island,' an area inhabited solely by former lab tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars. We go to the island, interview the locals and meet the scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago.

long shot [24 MIN | 2013]

Motherboard correspondent Derek Mead gets a back country crash course in the Precision Guided Firearm, a high tech self aiming rifle that allows beginners to kill at extreme distances, while trying to untangle an increasingly knotty firearms debate in light of this newfound gamification of killing.

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we've heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.
 
 

CLICK. PRINT. GUN. [24 MIN | 2013]

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Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun.

Like VICE News? Subscribe to our news channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out more episodes of Motherboard here: http://bit.ly/1nDXJJ5 Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he's putting all the information online so that others will join him.

STILL LIFE [36 MIN | 2014]

Some say Dr. Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas' brew brings the dead back to life. A documentary on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist whose proprietary chemical formula rehydrates corpses for identification.

Subscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://www.youtube.com/user/MotherboardTV?sub_confirmation=1 Some say Dr. Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas' brew brings the dead back to life. A MOTHERBOARD documentary on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist whose proprietary chemical formula rehydrates corpses for identification. Read more on MOTHERBOARD: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/still-life Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard

SPACED OUT: SPACE BEAR HUNTER [8 MIN | 2012]

Tardigrades or "Water Bears" are the only creatures that can survive the extreme conditions in the vacuum of outer space, and amateur naturalist Mike Shaw is obsessed with them.

Tardigrades or "Water Bears" are the only creatures that can survive the extreme conditions in the vacuum of outer space. Watch the comments response video here!

Free The Network [31 MIN | 2012]

Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond.

Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond. Read more at http://motherboard.vice.com/read/motherboard-tv-free-the-network