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PlusPlus Update!

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:47:49 GMT

After a fun first season Jason and Ankita talk about what's next for the podcast.

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Introducing Science Solved It

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:30:57 GMT

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 insight from the actual researchers who cracked the case. We cover everything from strange, underwater noises to cartoons that give people seizures, all with a satisfying scientific solution at the end. Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite app or on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-solved-it/id1227816834?mt=2

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Vote for Motherboard

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 23:22:28 GMT

We'll be back with a new episode of plusplus tomorrow, but in the meantime, please vote for our other podcast, Radio Motherboard, in the Webbys: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…sts/technology

Tweet at us telling us you voted (@jason_koebler or @motherboard), and we'll select one person to come on a future episode of Radio Motherboard show to talk about whatever they want.

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#5 - Should Robots Make Your Clothes?

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:48:11 GMT

Motherboard editor Ankita Rao went to Hyderabad, India to investigate the city's garment industry. She found rooms filled with hundreds of people making clothes by hand for low wages. If their jobs were automated, would they be better or worse off?

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#4 - Who Killed the Smart Gun?

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:57:39 GMT

With an epidemic of mass shootings and gun accidents devastating communities nationwide, a small movement seeks to change technology instead of gun control laws. But the players behind the movement to create smart guns have been blocked at every turn. Motherboard features editor Brian Anderson went on a two-year quest to learn who killed the smart gun.

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#3 - Domestic Surveillance

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 04:21:00 GMT

Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox surveils himself using off-the-shelf Android spyware he bought from a sketchy Polish website. It turns out this software is commonly used by domestic abusers to spy on their partners. pluspluspodcast meets a woman who was stalked and surveilled by her ex-husband using software like the kind Joseph purchased.

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#2 - America's Television Graveyards

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:17:38 GMT

We love our gadgets, but we rarely think about what happens with them when we get rid of them. Often, they don't go far at all. In the last three years, the EPA has found warehouses full of millions of abandoned CRT televisions in eight states.

Motherboard reporter Jason Koebler traveled to electronics recycling center near Dallas to learn why our old TVs are so hard to deal with.

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#1 - The Strange Life and Death of Sam Maloney

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:13:05 GMT

A hacker, a revolutionary, a racist crusader, a father, a husband, a university student, a son, and a friend: Sam Maloney was all of these things, depending on who you ask.

Toronto-based reporter Jordan Pearson investigates the work, software, and secret life of the 35-year-old programmer, who was shot and killed under mysterious circumstances by police in London, Ontario.

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#0 - Welcome to pluspluspodcast

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:55:41 GMT

pluspluspodcast is 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, crazy future. In season one, we'll go to India, Canada, and all over the United States to talk to hackers, scientists, activists, and gun nuts. Check back Friday for our first episode, a look at the curious case of Sam Maloney, a hacker who was killed under bizarre circumstances by Canadian police.

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