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'Groups of Women, Three or Four at a Time, Grabbed Each Other by Their Hands, and Plunged off the Building'

They hit the pavement just like rain, a stunned fire chief would later testify.
ALEX PASTERNACK
3.25.13
Motherboard Blog

Lockheed Martin's New Quantum Computer Doesn't Really Quantum Compute

D-Wave has a boy-who-cried-wolf problem.
Adam Clark Estes
3.25.13
Tech

The ATF Isn't Yet Convinced That 3D-Printed Guns Compare to the Real Thing

I called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to get a better idea for what it takes to make a gun "consistently reliable," and program manager George Semonick said the guns should be "made to last years or generations." In other...
Adam Clark Estes
3.25.13
Features

On 'Spring Breakers' and its Relationship with Gangster Rap

'Spring Breakers' may be the most rap-influenced movie to hit theaters in a good 20 years. This is Belly for 90s babies.
Ray the Destroyer
3.25.13
style

The Best Hair at SXSW

It's all one big reenactment of the musical HAIR down here in Austin, and I've been shooting flicks of the best hair here and chatting up the faces below it.
Nick Gazin
3.25.13
WMC 2013

We Talked to Para One at the We're All Friends Showcase

How do you get Cam'Ron to feature on your crushing ghettotech jam? You...ask him.
Emerson Rosenthal
3.25.13
Instagram Report

Did Trina and French Montana Break Up over Instagram?

If this is true, then true love is dead.
Drew Millard
Noisey Staff
3.25.13
Film

Real Events Shot On An iPhone Become Fictional Short Film

In Versus Zach NeSmith turns fact into fiction.
Adriana M. Padilla
3.25.13
Motherboard Blog

OMG! Literature Study Says Americans Are More Emotional Writers than the British

Since roughly the 1960s, written American English has slowly diverged from the English of our British cousins. Relative to the British, American writing is more emotional now. OMG ALL CAPS!
Austin Considine
3.25.13
News

Fire in the Hole

The convoy stops, and the lieutenant lowers his binoculars and opens his door and points at four Afghan men standing on a ridge beside a red telephone tower. They look little more than dots against the horizon. Boulders lie strewn across the slope of...
J. Malcolm Garcia
3.25.13
News

Anonymous Taught Twitter About the Rohingya Genocide

Yesterday, for a few hours at least, the plight of a small indigenous people was given center stage on Twitter. The Rohingya people—inhabitants of Burma, known officially as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar—were recognized by several thousand...
Dell Cameron
3.25.13
Travel

Penetrating Jordan’s Illegal Porn Cinemas

No marquee or sign advertises the Kawakib Cinema's name or its show times, but it is a refuge for men—many of them migrant laborers from outside Jordan—to watch grainy porn anytime from 8 AM to 8 PM any day of the week to "finish and relax."
Mat Wolf
3.25.13
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