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11:44

Addicted to Bitcoin: The Cryptocurrency Rehab Center

Motherboard goes to Castle Craig Hospital in Scotland, a rehabilitation facility that recently added treatment for cryptocurrency addiction to its gambling rehabilitation program.
Waypoint Specials
6:54

The World’s Fastest Speedcubers Are Teens

Speedcubing is a competitive sport that involves solving cube puzzles as fast a possible. Waypoint visits a recent tournament that was attended by some of the fastest and most passionate speedcubers in the game.
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3:55

Surveillance and the City: Know When You're Being Watched

Ingrid Burrington, author of "Networks of New York," explains how big cities like New York are constantly under surveillance.
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8:39

Inside the Beach House Connecting the World’s Internet

 We visit Denmark and talk to a marine maintenance manager to learn more about how undersea cables are crucial to data transportation.
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6:55

The City That Banned Bitcoin Mining

On March 15th, 2018, the city of Plattsburgh in upstate New York issued an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency mining.
Dear Future
12:12

Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit

When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a small group of people in Detroit is trying to change that.
VICE News Tonight on HBO
2:42

Immigrants' social media will be collected and kept forever by DHS

VICE News examines social media monitoring of immigrants after the DHS decision to use public data against them.
VICE News Shorts
3:23

Meet The World's First Emoji Translator

VICE News speaks to the world's first emoji translator about what it is he actually does
Transmissions
5:25

Battle of the Snow Bots

The ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St Paul, Minnesota is a yearly gathering of top engineers, who face off to see whose unmanned snowplowing robots can clear the most snow without any human intervention.
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5:14

Partying With Dr. NakaMats, the World's Most Prolific Inventor

Motherboard met up with Dr.NakaMats on the eve of his birthday party, to talk about the importance of inventing, and why he plans to keep innovating for another 60 years.
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4:54

Using Virtual Reality to Buy Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate

For Motherboard's Luxury Week, we went to Manhattan to see how VR companies are attempting to change the way wealthy home-buyers purchase multi-million-dollar properties.
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4:03

The World's First Implant-Activated Smart Gun

Biohacker Amal Graafstra quietly built the world's first implant-activated smart gun inside his garage in Washington.
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