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Pandora Founder: We Pay Artists Really Well, Now Let Us Stop

Pandora founder Tim Westergren just published this curious humble-brag of an article, which has predictably rippled across the music blogosphere. In it, he explains that his plucky company is super successful and can totally afford to pay the artists...
Brian Merchant
10.10.12
Motherboard Blog

A Chemistry Nobel for Explaining the Internet of the Human Body

Your body talks to itself, constantly. It has its own internet in a very real sense. That network of bodily communication is performed via chemicals, like the different varieties of hormones -- adrenaline, say -- which are sent around to the different...
Michael Byrne
10.10.12
Motherboard Blog

How Space X's Falcon 9 Rocket Flew After Losing an Engine

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lost an engine during launch but managed an autonomous recovery.
Amy Shira Teitel
10.10.12
Stuff

All Hail the Fifth Coming of the iPhone

Are we going to keep on sucking Apple’s dick with our eyes blindfolded and pretend we’re not being led down the garden path? I know I am, but not without a modicum of guilt.
Bruce LaBruce
10.10.12
Music

RIP Philip Tarr 1987-2012

Phil Tarr, the mastermind behind Nova Scotian shit-fi punk band Mess Folk, passed away recently.
Gregory Pike
10.10.12
Music

Noisey Premiered Black Bananas' "It's Cool" Video

On top of showing you this neat video of pretty images and music, Noisey did some Qs and As with JJ Herrema and Kurt Midness. It was cool.
Nick Gazin
10.10.12
Tech

The Kremlin Wants to Keep Kids Off Wi-Fi

Just who would be responsible for keeping young people off Wi-Fi – the service providers or owners of businesses – is unclear, especially in cities like Moscow, where the government has already begun a plan that would seem utterly at odds with this...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Do So Many Liberals 'Like' Mitt Romney on Facebook?

A typical election season comment drifted through my Facebook feed the other day: "Just got the shock of seeing how many of my friends 'like' Mitt Romney's page. Wow." I laughed, made a sarcastic remark on the post, and then read the comments that were...
Brian Merchant
10.10.12
Motherboard Blog

Listen As Cops Threaten Young Men During a Stop-and-Frisk

NYPD officers stopped a record "684,330 people":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204795304577221770752633612.html last year for questioning. The tactic, in which around half of those questioned are frisked, is credited by proponents for...
Derek Mead
10.10.12
News

Chavez Has Six More Years in Power

This past Sunday, amid a political climate so polarized that it makes Romney and Obama look like sexed up newlyweds, Venezuela celebrated their presidential elections. Hugo Chavez beat opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, giving him another six...
Paul Geddis
10.10.12
Tech

Ya Got Any Gum?

Here are three tips to make your breath smell all nice and pretty in the future.
Michelle Lhooq
10.10.12
New music

Angel Haze - "Werkin Girls" (Official Video)

Angel gets her Wolverine swag on in the dark new video for "Werkin Girls".
Noisey Staff
10.10.12
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