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Enjoy These First Images From the World's Most Powerful Camera

The Dark Energy Camera is just what it sounds, and then even a bit more. Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the phone booth-sized 570 megapixel camera, the tool of the "Dark Energy Survey":https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/ collaboration, is designed to...
Michael Byrne
9.18.12
New music

Check Out This Killer Mixtape From Glass Animals

Curiously seductive, the smoothest mix of hip-hop and electronica you'll hear all day.
Noisey Staff
9.18.12
Motherboard Blog

How Romanian Hackers Stole $10 Million From Subway Customers

Two Romanian hackers have fessed up to their involvement in a three-year-long credit card conspiracy that targeted over 150 Subway sandwich shops and as many as 146,000 of their unsuspecting customers. From 2008 to 2010, Iulian Dolan and Cezar Iulian...
Adam Estes
9.18.12
Music

Real Estate Cruises Around Town At The Creators Project: Beijing 2012

During their downtime, the band explores the sights, food, and art of Beijing.
Abdullah Saeed
9.18.12
Drugs

How Big Pharma Hooked America on Legal Heroin

Frank Morris was only 23 when he ended up in drug rehab. But he was already a full-blown junkie, smoking crack on the streets of San Francisco, and nearly losing his left arm after accidentally pumping a full shot into his artery.
Kelly Bourdet
9.18.12
Sports

Tom Sims Was One of the Good Ones

As you've probably heard by now, legendary surfer, skateboarder, and snowboarder Tom Sims passed away at his Santa Barbara ranch on Wednesday from a heart attack. I was lucky enough to spend some time with Tom a couple of years ago while filming his...
TREVAR CUSHING
9.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Travelling Faster Than the Speed of Light Is Harder Than It Looks

Now that we've been to the moon, built the International Space Station and landed a multi-billion dollar robot on Mars, the space geeks are getting restless. Well, going to Venus is probably boring, and we'd have to fly through the asteroid belt if we...
Adam Estes
9.18.12
Kill the Engine

I Finally Got an iPhone

I finally got an iPhone a few weeks ago. I think what sealed the deal was when I was out skating with some old bros and one of my unemployed/unemployable friends pulled his iPhone out of his pocket to Instagram some nonsense.
Michael Sieben
9.18.12
Motherboard Blog

As Sake Declines, Japanese Craft Beers Are Booming

Spend any time drinking in Japan -- and if you're in Japan, you likely will -- and you'll notice that for all the plethora of sub-brands of beer in the country, they're all pretty much variations of malted macrobrews produced by the four titans of the...
Derek Mead
9.18.12
Travel

Shouldn't Robert Mugabe Be Dead Already?

The country is tired of waiting for its devil to die.
Olive Hoover
9.18.12
New music

Fifty Grand - "Exceptional"

Like if Philip Glass and Purity Ring teamed up to score 'The Others.'
Emerson Rosenthal
9.18.12
Motherboard Blog

This is the Banned 1945 US Army Documentary That Inspired "The Master"

In _Hard Eight_, Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature, John C. Reilly becomes the gambling protege of Phillip Baker Hall. Like some of Bret Easton Ellis' returning characters, Anderson scripted Phillip Baker Hall, in _Boogie Nights_ and _Magnolia_, to...
Daniel Stuckey
9.18.12
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