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Here Come the Gangnam Robots

At last weekend's Beijing's College Student Robotics Competition, some 300 people from 99 teams from across China and Taiwan "showed off robots":http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/robots-do-a-little-dance-make-a-little-love that could play five-a-side...
ALEX PASTERNACK
9.26.12
News

Is Central Asia on the Verge of a Water War?

A new kind of conflict is rising in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that could eventually lead to the first water war of the 21st century.
Ben Makuch
9.26.12
News

When the Spanish Tried to Occupy their Parliament

Thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid yesterday, all pissed to the point of combustion about the cataclysm of shittiness that has dominated Spain for the last year.
Paul Geddis, Photos: Felipe Hernández Durán
9.26.12
Stuff

My Methadone Clinic is the Happiest Place on Earth

Being a full time drug addict comes with insanity of course, but getting off drugs can be pretty gnarly too.
Andrew Horn
9.26.12
Features

Are You A Person In A Position To Know Michael Dixon's Hand-Cut Vinyl?

The high school teacher handcrafted This Frontier Needs Heroes' pyramid-shaped eight-inch single for "2012."
Noisey Staff
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Google Street View Now Goes Underwater

It's happened to everyone. You're walking around a coastal town using Google Maps to navigate your way from one sandy street to another. (Clearly, you're not an iPhone 5 user.) Then, maybe you head down to the beach to check out the sand castles and...
Adam Estes
9.26.12
Music

The "No Homo" Fantasy That Is One Direction

Somewhere along the line during Western society’s postwar transition into a media-based culture it somehow became an acceptable part of its coming of age rituals that pubescent girls of each generation would become obsessed en masse with the same...
Miles Raymer
9.26.12
Stuff

Drugs That Make Me Cry

I spend the vast majority of my time not being myself. I avoid expressing my true feelings if I think they will alienate others. I stifle my ego so as not to come off as self-absorbed. Due to the prevalence of the lie expressed earlier, I occasionally...
Dave Schilling
9.26.12
FIGHTLAND

Being Forgettable Is the Deadliest Sin of All

There’s no fate in this world worse for the enterprising and ambitious MMA fighter than allowing a fight to go to a decision. “Don’t leave it in the hands of the judges” is basically a commandment. No one wants to lose, or to be ignored.
Josh Rosenblatt
9.26.12
Motherboard Blog

How Many Nerds Does it Take to Break an iPhone 5?

There couldn't be anything more satisfying than being Greg Packer last Friday, the first to walk away from Apple's 5th Avenue store with a fresh iPhone 5. Opening that box, I imagine a small string of Packer's drool collecting in a puddle on the device...
Daniel Stuckey
9.26.12
Design

"Intelligent" Camera Autonomously Captures Images Of Your Day Then Turns Them Into A Stop-Frame Video

The Autographer from OMG Life does all the hard work of documenting your life while you go about your business.
Kevin Holmes
9.26.12
Fashion

Abducted

Photos by Jason Macdonald and Styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos.
Jason MacDonald
9.26.12
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