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Voyager 1's Exit From Our Solar System Has Only Taken 35 Years
Voyager 1 launched 35 years ago. Now it's about to leave the boundary of our solar system. And it's still going strong.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.5.12
New music

Here Is Widows' New Video for "Croc"
This coast-straddling hip-hop duo is here to help us enjoy ourselves when things gets biblical.
Benjamin Shapiro
9.5.12
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One Man's Two-Year Quest to Meticulously Map 'Infinite Jest'
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.com...
Ben Richmond
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Samsung Is Copying Apple's Shady Labor Practices, Too
Samsung just can't get a break. Less than two weeks after a judge ordered it pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple for patent infringement, the South Korean company is now catching flak for shady labor practices in China. The New York-based human...
Adam Estes
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

The Six Names You Won't Hear at the Democratic National Convention
Joe Biden summed up the essence of Obama’s reelection campaign months ago. “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." These duel sentiments will be showcased at the DNC over the next few days, the slightest glimmers of hope amplified to...
Michael Arria
9.5.12
Design

49 Hovering Quadrotors Make This The Biggest Flying Robot Performance Yet
Ars Electronica’s voestalpine Klangwolke event puts on an intense flying light show.
Abdullah Saeed
9.5.12
Music

We Found a Protest Anthem for Young Israel
You're welcome, J14.
Milene Larsson
9.5.12
Music

Go See Grand Rapids at Union Pool in NY this Saturday
Grand Rapids is a beautiful and famous band. They're playing a show at Union Pool in Brooklyn this Saturday.
VICE Staff
9.5.12
News

Northern Gateway Pipeline: What the Hell Is Going On with the Northern Gateway Pipeline?
Because you’d have to believe some kind of fringe ideology to be against a black flammable liquid being unsafely transported through your community.
Cameron Reed
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

A Topless, Chainsaw-Wielding Ukrainian Woman Chopped Down A Crucifix To Protest Pussy Riot, Or Something
For all the good parts of the Occupy movement -- raising awareness about shady banking practices, "freeing the internet":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, etc. -- so much of the actual on-the-ground protesting seemed to...
Derek Mead
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch This Trailer: Republicans Think the How-We-Got-Osama "Zero Dark Thirty" Isn't Fair
In May, 2011 director Kathryn Bigelow (_The Hurt Locker_, _Point Break_, _Strange Days)_ and screenwriter/journalist Mark Boal (_The Hurt Locker_, _In The Valley of Elah_) had just wrapped on a meticulously researched script about the 2001 siege of al...
Chris O'Coin
9.5.12
Travel

The Mall of New Jersey
New Jersey’s landscape has been completely surrendered to the mall. The aggressive classiness of the Mall at Short Hills seems not only inconsistent with New Jersey’s idea of itself, but almost like an affront to it.
Chris R. Morgan
9.5.12
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