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No Justice For Hate Crime Victims on London Trains Despite Thousands of Cameras
It’s one of the most surveilled places in one of the most surveilled cities in the world, but just 10 percent of hate crime reports on London transport lead to an arrest or charge, VICE World News can reveal.
Time Warner Cable Has Already Been Challenged Over New Net Neutrality Rules
San Diego webcaster objects to TWC’s interconnection policy.
A Lifelike 'Biomorphic Wall' Grows In Brooklyn
Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robotic Works' latest in inflatable architecture comes to life at Pioneer Works this Sunday.
You Can Now Eat Russian Space Food—But Do You Want To?
You can now buy the same kinds of pasty tube foods available to Russian cosmonauts. But why are we so obsessed with astronaut food, anyway? And do they really eat freeze-dried ice cream?
Floating Pipe Sculptures Look Like Alien Life Forms
David McLeod's digital creations put surreal twists on a mundane object.
Abstract Projection Mapping Turns Infrastructure Into Chaos
New media artist Cristpher Cichocki turns trees and pipes into a pulsing projection-mapped "acidic ocean" of color.
Why Are Women in Old Science Fiction Always Stuck in Tubes?
But what problem, exactly, is solved by putting women in tubes?
Andrew Blum Meets the Real-Life Internet on a Beach in Ireland (Video)
I love the fact that when an undersea fiberoptic cable that's thousands of miles long is laid miles-deep on the floor of an ocean reaches its eventual destination, that cable is brought ashore by a dude in a wet suit. Like, the only difference between...
The Future of New York City's Trash Sucks
You can practically smell the benefits of turning trash collection over to a giant vacuum.
Should New York City Expand Its Network of Trash-Sucking Vacuum Tubes?
When urban planners were trying to turn New York's Roosevelt Island from a haven for the disabled and the mentally ill into a liveable city, they got "utopian":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island#Architecture. Lying beneath their plans was an...
To Visit the Internet You Must Leave the Internet: An Interview with "Tubes" Author Andrew Blum
It’s nice to think that Andrew Blum chose "_Tubes_":http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994936 as the title for his book for pure fun, because, really, how absurd was it that Senator Ted Stevens once used this word to explain...