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New Zealand Students Can Buy Beers With Rats
For centuries New Zealand flightless birds and slow-moving reptiles lived without fear of native predators. This golden era ended when the British showed up on rat-infested ships. Now rats are the key player in the destruction of the country's forestry.
Laetitia Laubscher
4.17.14
security

Secure Mobile Payments Are Best Done In Blood
Your body's the new wallet, and your blood is the new credit card number.
Meghan Neal
4.17.14
Stuff

These Hilarious Stock Images Hint at London's Depressing Future
Every city has its visual cliches. The stereotypes, falsehoods and cheery slices of xenophobia sold to us on cheap postcards and in crap films that reduce the world's great cities to a handful of worn out cultural cues.
Clive Martin
4.17.14
police

How to Get More From Police Self-Surveillance: Don't Turn It Off
As the Justice Department found in New Mexico, the self-surveillance cameras used to monitor police only work when they're actually on.
John Dyer
4.17.14
guns

An Armed Standoff in Nevada Is Only the Beginning for America’s Right-Wing Militias
The BLM took matters into its own hands and started seizing cattle illegally grazing on government property. Things then went downhill.
Grace Wyler
4.17.14
capsule

VICE News Capsule - Thursday, April 17
Al Qaeda leader threatens the US, doctors in Syria battle a flesh-eating disease, diplomats in Geneva for Ukraine talks, protests in Dakar.
تجربة
4.17.14
stop and frisk

The Mob Justice of Kenya's Somali Stop-and-Frisk
In recent years, there’s been a trend of underpaid police using anti-terror operations as an excuse to round up and extort innocent Somalis.
Jason Patinkin
4.17.14
Power

Lavabit Tried to Hand Over Encryption Keys in a Tiny Font, But It Didn't Work
The secure email service lost its contempt of court appeal in what all boiled down to a procedural point.
Victoria Turk
4.17.14
Gavin Haynes's Polite Conversation

Kiesza Has Only Had One Boyfriend
But she's not ruling out short guys in the future. Maybe she'll meet one at her capoeira group.
Gavin Haynes
4.17.14
Tech

Hanging Out at Brighton's Virtual Fight Club
"I Am Arcade" is a night for gamers to meet up and beat the shit out of each other on Super Street Fighter IV.
Mike Diver, Photos: Nima Elm
Photos: Nima Elm
4.17.14
Who did it Better

Crying isn’t just for Pharrell, Crying is For Everyone!
Who blubbed it best?
Ryan Bassil
4.17.14
Twitter

The Lawsuit Over Calling Someone 'Fucking Crazy' on Twitter Is Fucking Crazy
Free speech in action (and how this all relates to a horse).
Jason Koebler
4.17.14
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