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I/O Shows That Google's Ultimate Search Is for Artificial Intelligence
Search is dying. Maps reads your mind now. And Google's foray into music depends on predicting your tastes. The tech giant's annual conference is really all about building a better AI.
Meghan Neal
5.16.13
News

“Fitch the Homeless” Is Backwards-Ass Activism
Please don’t “Fitch the Homeless.” This is all just some cheeseball stunt perpetrated by a guy who really wants attention and saw an opportunity to get it. Yes, it seems clever, but making fart noises with your armpits in seventh grade seemed clever...
Allegra Ringo
5.16.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

Waka Flocka's 'DuFlocka Rant: Halftime Show' Is Good But It Comes Nowhere Close to Achieving the Sheer Power of the Musical Violence on 'DuFlocka Rant 2'
I REALLY RELY ON WAKA TO UNABASHEDLY SUPPORT ME IN MY BAD LIFE CHOICES.
The Kid Mero
5.16.13
News

Horrible People Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Once upon a time, long before Angelina Jolie got a mastectomy, she adopted a Cambodian child. As a result, privileged Westerners of all nationalities flocked to the country's orphanages in the hope of simultaneously nurturing a child and their own...
Sascha Kouvelis
5.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Get Ready For Digitalized Medieval Parchments
Thanks to British researchers, too-fragile-to-touch no longer means too-fragile-to-read.
Ben Richmond
5.16.13
VICE News

White Student Union - Trailer
We recently went to Towson University to speak with Matthew Heimbach, the founder of a group that advocates for “persons of European heritage." We also met the students who want him off campus... or at least muzzled. 'White Student Union' is a...
VICE Staff
5.16.13
Art

Come See Universal Everything's Gliders at Experience Intel This Weekend
Using the Ultrabook's gyroscope and touchscreen, become part of a flock of colorful gliders.
The Creators Project
5.16.13
Art

Discover An Intergalactic Phenomenon With This Project About Quasars
Using programming tools, microcontrollers, LEDs and fiber optics, slap!HQ turns scientific data into interactive installation.
Benoit Palop
5.16.13
Interviews

Carmen Electra's Got a Bigger Dick Than You
On crotch power pop and the single with the potential to be the "Call Me Maybe" of summer 2013.
Sarah Kurchak
5.16.13
New music

Premiere: Drop City Yacht Club ft. Jeremih - "Crickets" (Viceroy Remix)
Electro dude and remix supremo Viceroy turns this R&B summer jam into a hazily euphoric synth-pop smash.
Noisey Staff
5.16.13
Motherboard Blog

The Motherboard Guide to Spy Kits
Evade the watchers like a pro--not that bumbling, wigged US spy just detained by Russian security forces.
Brian Anderson
5.16.13
Neither Big nor Easy

On the Road with Tony Clifton
Tony Clifton is a piece of performance art who has outlived his creator, legendary comic Andy Kaufman, by two decades. He's having a comeback of sorts, thanks at least in part to Jeremy Johnson, a filmmaker who has been working for Clifton—and his...
Michael Patrick Welch
5.16.13
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