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Microsoft's Skype Is Killing Chat Privacy
Skype, which has previously been one of the few untappable forms of communication out there, is now kowtowing to the Man and making chat records more available to authorities. Time to bring back the pager and pay phone combo, folks.
Derek Mead
7.26.12
Music

VICE Premiere: "Family Haircut" by Agent Ribbons
When the majority of us are suffering through endless sweat rag, humid-ass days, it's nice to know that Agent Ribbons are out there being enchanting and shit.
Kelly McClure
7.26.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Plastic Flowers
I visited Mandarin Green Plastics Company to photograph their artificial flower factory in Huidong, China. So many of the goods we purchase today are manufactured in China, but we rarely give thought to how these products are made and who made them...
Taylor Glenn
7.26.12
Features

How The Smiths Can Get You Laid
Tackling OKCupid with Morrissey as your wingman.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
7.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Facebook, Google and Friends Want to Kill Regulation That Doesn't Yet Exist
The tech industry is not unaware that regulators in Washington will catch up with its unchecked growth sooner or later. As such, a consoritium of companies including Facebook, Google, Amazon and eBay are joining forces to form the Internet Association...
Adam Estes
7.26.12
Stuff

Five Things Stephen Harper Could Do To Improve His Public Image
Try to be funny. Make a joke about farting or post a photo of your cat. Or post of photo of you farting on your cat. Just try to sound like a god damned human, Stephen! People are starting to ask questions.
Cameron Reed
7.26.12
Fashion

Netstyl.es Continues To Hyperlink Fashion And The Internet
The second edition of Sterling Crispin’s net-inspired T-shirt line rides the wave between post-internet and New Aesthetic.
Kathleen Flood
7.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Pennsylvania's New Voting Law Suppresses Democracy
Hundreds of thousands seasoned Pennsylvanian voters may find themselves out of luck at the ballot this election, thanks to a controversial state law that’s considered one of the most stringent in the country.
The new law, which requires eligible...
ALEC LIU
7.26.12
NSFW

Seka, Raising Penises for Three Generations
Sex in the 70s was Seka. Half Cherokee, half Irish, and looking like a perfect Hollywood trophy, or a divination of death from the Norse Gods—Seka was a flinty mirage of whatever fantasy you had. I called her up recently to chat about stuff like anal...
John Reed
7.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Future Sex: The Google Problems of Rapists
In August of 2011, Savannah Dietrich went to a party. She drank too much and passed out. While she was unconscious, two young men sexually assaulted her, photographing themselves as they did it; they then used the Internet to send these pictures to...
Kelly Bourdet
7.26.12
Photo

Old People Having Fun in the Sun
Here are a bunch of pictures that make you wish you were a bag of excess skin. The photos feature olds unashamedly strutting their stuff while on vacation in Tenerife.
Chris Cooper, Text: Elektra Kotsoni
7.26.12
Sports

Arigato, Ichiro
Ichiro Suzuki was special in Seattle in a way that few players are. By the numbers, it’s possible to argue he was overrated and not that good, but no number is ever going to convince me he wasn’t great.
Harry Cheadle
7.26.12
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