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Europe Ruled Its Data-Sharing Agreement With US Tech Companies Invalid

A case concerning Facebook data and the NSA has dealt a fatal blow to the widely-used pact that let companies easily transfer data from the EU to the US.
Joseph Cox
10.6.15
jobs

Meet One of the World's Only Female Sword Swallowers

We talked to the Lady Aye about learning to swallow swords while recovering from bulimia and why women get pushed aside in the sideshow business.
Lindsay Schrupp
10.6.15
News

Reddit Is Working on an Entirely New Front Page Algorithm

Reddit's CEO says his team is working to fix the site's broken ranking algorithm.
Jason Koebler
10.6.15
middle east

Videos Show Attacks on Aden Hotel Housing Yemeni Government

The Qasr hotel has been the base of the government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi since its return from exile in Riyadh over recent weeks and the expulsion of Houthi fighters in July.
Reuters and VICE News
10.6.15
Art

Trees Come Alive at the "World's First" Permanent Digital Art Park

NetPark even features sonic interpretations of its own landscape by experimental musicians Matmos.
Kevin Holmes
10.6.15
video

One Website Is Using Humor to Get Its Users to Turn Off Adblock

The Vengabus is coming.
Rachel Pick
10.6.15
beer

Women Are Getting Served the Wrong Drinks Because We Still Think Beer Is for Guys

According to a new study from AB Inbev, nearly half of women feel that beer is still perceived as a “man’s drink,” with 20 percent saying they had been given the wrong drink in bars.
Phoebe Hurst
10.6.15
japan

This Pocket-Sized Robot Is Your Next Smartphone (and Best Friend)

Yes, it's a phone that's also a tiny personal robo-buddy.
Emiko Jozuka
10.6.15
Festival Season!

Hamburger Deluxe: The Five Hottest Acts we Caught at Reeperbahn Festival

We sent one of our writers to Hamburg's wildest district for a weekend of musical discovery. Here's what he's come back with.
Marcus Barnes
10.6.15
crime & drugs

California Cops Are Pissed About the State’s New Racial Profiling Law

Police in California will soon be required to document and make public the ethnicity and race of every individual they stop while patrolling.
Colleen Curry
10.6.15
Food Hacking
18:27

How to Eat a Virtual Cookie

Simon Klose meets up with a Japanese researcher who shows us how to use virtual reality to make a cookie taste like five different things.
News

The VICE Morning Bulletin

This morning, Obama prepares for another battle with Congress, an 11-year-old boy is charged with murder, Snowden makes new allegations, a former Egyptian general says America "controls the weather," and more.
VICE Staff
10.6.15
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