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When Wall Street Robots Go Rogue, Banks Lose $10 Million a Minute
Wall Street robots went rogue on Wednesday unleashing a torrent of trades that wreaked havoc on the markets and cost one firm nearly half a billion dollars, or about $10 million a minute. It was a “mini flash crash,” experts called it, bringing back...
ALEC LIU
8.3.12
Music

Get Ready for the Hot New Band of the Future, Dork Moron
Enter Dork Moron, two humans who have devised a radical yet primitive solution to the Post-Thought jimbles: they perform physically, in the manner of a Pre-Thought band.
Ben Johnson
8.3.12
Design

Would You Wear CuteCircuit's Programmable, Digital T-Shirt?
It has an LCD screen, a headphone jack, and a camera.
Kevin Holmes
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Is Dubstep Secretly a Beacon of the Avant-Garde?
This is the question posed by our pals at PBS' Idea Channel in a new video, and if anyone out there remembers "old dubstep," it's kind of confounding. Because dubstep at its genesis was actually a way exciting avant-garde genre of music on its own...
Michael Byrne
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Who Owns a Soybean
In 1980, the US Supreme Court ruled that individuals and corporations could patent living organisms. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, a microbiologist working for General Electric, had genetically modified a bacterium to break down crude oil, and GE wanted...
Brian Merchant
8.3.12
Fashion

Life After MySpace for the Scene Queens
MySpace is just a cesspool of pedophiles and bullying and cluttered profile pages. But how would you feel about the site’s demise if you were one of those people who spent all of your free waking hours adding “friends” and tweaking your page to the...
Mitchell Sunderland
8.3.12
Noisey

Cute Kids Moshing to Black Flag
In maybe the best You Review yet, we gave little kids "beer" and taught them how to smash the state and circle the pit.
Noisey Staff
8.3.12
The Recent Unpleasantness

Mars Landing Talking Points
"As we all know, the Curiosity rover arrives on Mars this Sunday. Several past Mars missions have generated unfortunate media sideshows over careless employee comments. This will NOT happen with Curiosity."
Sam McPheeters
8.3.12
Motherboard Blog

Here's the Prototype of a $9 Fully Ridable Cardboard Bike
So it turns out that building a fully ridable bicycle out of cardboard costs about 9 bucks. Israeli designer Giora Kariv should know, since he's just put the finishing touches on a prototype of what is probably the world's first bike to be made out of...
Brian Merchant
8.3.12
guide

VICE Staff
8.3.12
Tech

Science Will Justify Your One-Night Stands
Why do some people take the merry-go-round route of sexual exploits while others don't part till death? A study found that your severe case of dick or vagina ADD may not be your fault. Having a propensity for casual sex appears to be genetic.
Kelly Bourdet
8.3.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: A woman who's sad because she can't get her face burned off versus people who hate children.
Jamie Lee Taete
8.3.12
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