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New York State of Mind

Flatbush Zombies Destroyed London

Verena Stefanie Grotto is documenting the new New York hip-hop movement as it happens in real time, with intimate shots of rappers, scenesters, artists, and fashion fiends. This week, she caught up with the Flatbush Zombies in London.
Verena Stefanie Grotto
9.4.13
videos

Video: Joris Voorn - "Ringo"

Feel the wonder in this premiere from the Dutch tech-house star.
THUMP Staff
9.4.13
News

Is CSEC, the Canadian Version of the NSA, Trustworthy?

With the whole world up in arms about the NSA's rampant surveillance of ordinary citizens, very little is known about CSEC, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, which has existed for 68 years, even though the government only acknowledged...
Patrick McGuire
9.4.13
Motherboard Blog

NASA Will Talk to Its Moon Probe with Lasers

Call it an LLCD soundsystem.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Good Luck Trying to Shoot Down a Drone

Because you're not going to hit the thing. Want to really mess with a drone? Use a $10 laser pointer.
Brian Anderson
9.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Complications from Robot Surgery Are Underreported, Johns Hopkins Found

We still don't fully understand the risks of robotic surgery.
Lex Berko
9.4.13
A Few Impressions

'Salò' Revisited

Pier Pasolini's 20th-century take on the Marquis de Sade's 18th-century masterwork of depravity might be stomach turning, but it's also staggeringly honest about the power and chaos of unchecked desires.
James Franco
9.4.13
Art

Phillips And Tumblr Launch First Digital Art Auction To Be Held By A Major Auction House

Digital artists are invited to submit their work for the prestigious auction and exhibition.
Julia Kaganskiy
9.4.13
Motherboard Blog

How Much Do Data Brokers Know About You? Now You Can Find Out

Data is the currency of the internet, and advertising tech firms like Acxiom make their bones off of helping companies target ads more effectively.
Derek Mead
9.4.13
News

US Consulate Officers Gone Wild

Michael T. Sestak, a Foreign Service officer working at a US consulate in Vietnam, was just charged with exchanging hundreds of visas for bribes. That's a brazen case of corruption, but it's hardly unique among the annals of the diplomatic corps.
Calvin Godfrey
9.4.13
Longreads Or Whatever

Willis Earl Beal Is Not Real

This despairingly beautiful soul is no longer homeless, but still doesn’t know anything—and either do you.
Eric Sundermann
9.4.13
we saw this

Watching How to Dress Well Open for Danny Brown at NYU Taught Me Hipsters Don't Understand the Point of College

Why bros are the true subversives, and they don't even know it.
Kevin Munger
9.4.13
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