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Video: Rare Times - "Cloudy"

Scuzzy LA five-piece makes synthy retro sleaze.
VICE Thump
8.20.13
Words

You Could Design the Dance (RED), Save Lives Album Cover Alongside Futura

Enter now to team up with the world-renowned artist and have your work seen by millions.
THUMP Staff
8.20.13
Motherboard Blog

We're at Defcon One for Wildfires

There are 262 wildfires blazing in the US right now, and we're at Preparedness Level 5. This is a glimpse of our drier, more fiery future.
Brian Merchant
8.20.13
Tubesteak

If You Stick Things in Your Pee Hole, Awful Things Will Happen

Male readers of the internet crossed their legs and let out a unified grimace of pain yesterday when a story made the rounds about a 70-year-old Australian man who got a fork lodged in his dong.
Brian Moylan
8.20.13
Music

The Interactive Fog Illusions That Launched Moderat’s Hyper-Anticipated Album

We go behind the scenes into Moderat's interactive light projection experiment.
Michelle Lhooq
8.20.13
Words

Download: Upper Cuts presents Djeff "Kissange"

Shuffling Afrohouse rhythms straight from Luanda, Angola!
THUMP Staff
8.20.13
Motherboard Blog

Prison Phone Calls Will Soon Be Less Criminally Expensive And Just As Stressful

Maybe it wouldn’t have been as bad 15 years ago, but now we’re so used to interacting all the time that inmates go crazy when they can’t even text their people.
Bert Burykill
8.20.13
Motherboard Blog

Thomas Pynchon's New Heroine Is Caught Up in Some Sort of Virtual-Reality Game

And you'll have to wait around another month or so, when the reclusive author drops 'Bleeding Edge', to understand why. Here's an excerpt to tide you over.
Brian Anderson
8.20.13
News

Protests Continue in War-Torn Cairo

The number of Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Morsi supporters dropped on Monday's protests in Giza, but it was only a couple of hours before altercations took place between the protesters and nearby pro-Army civilians.
Wail Gzoly
8.20.13
The Grandmaster

The Art of Kung Fu - Wing Chun Tutorial

Inspired by Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, this animated series will take you through the key martial arts styles that defined China and the world of kung fu.
VICE Staff
8.20.13
Motherboard Blog

This CIA Officer Spoke Out About Torture. Now's He's in Prison for Espionage

A decade ago, long before Edward Snowden trolled the depths of a classified government surveillance program, John Kiriakou was learning about a government practice as secret and troubling, and a lot more gruesome.
Tyler Bass
8.20.13
Motherboard Blog

The White House's Fight for Warrantless Cellphone Searches Hinges on a Flip Phone

If the Supreme Court were to decide that the White House argument holds water, its ruling would already be out of touch with the technological reality of most American citizens.
Derek Mead
8.20.13
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