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The Fastest Drone in History Is 60 Years Old

History's fastest drone, the X-10, was a proof of concept vehicle that has vanished from public view due to federal budget cuts.
Amy Shira Teitel
7.10.13
Motherboard Blog

Spotify's Massive Library of Subliminal Messages Will Make You Perfect

An investigation in self-improvement via the sounds of rain, the ocean and gentle persuasion.
Ben Richmond
7.10.13
Motherboard Blog

How to Win Passwords and Hackfluence Corporations: An Interview with a Social Engineer

After I stopped freaking out about how security is an illusion and no one is safe from people like Ghost, he explained to me how he operates in this crazily intrusive line of work.
Angela Hennessy
7.10.13
Art

An Experiment in Video Feedback: Jonathan Brainin's Hypnotic Pendulum Video

Prepare to be mesmerized and maybe even a little freaked out by this mind-boggling kinetic installation.
Chloe Jones
7.10.13
You Need to Hear This

Hibou: "Above Us"

Hibou is the even prettier cousin to Wild Nothing.
Noisey Staff
7.10.13
Design

Projection Mapping Provokes A Dazzling New Future For Table Tennis

Ping pong gets augmented with morphing grids and real-time reactive graphics.
Dylan DeRose
7.10.13
Photo

Paul Salveson Loves Photography, Toothbrushes, and Wheat (In That Order)

Paul Salveson likes stuff, that we're sure of. Past that, his work confounds us in the best way possible. Is that a cinderblock made out of bread? I honestly don't know, but I love it. His new book, Between the Shell, which just won MACK’s First...
Pat O'Malley
7.10.13
News

The US Military Recruited at San Francisco Gay Pride

In the past two years, we’ve seen a rapid increase in the military's awareness of the LGBTQ community, amid an obviously understandable animosity. Could they recruit from the very same group they’ve spent countless generations undermining?
Jules Suzdaltsev
7.10.13
Popping the Marks

Ramadan for the Unsure

Now it’s Ramadan, the month during which Muslims fast from dawn to sunset for 30 days and celebrate the revelation of the Qur’an. There are times when I can get into the mystery of god, yes. But I don’t always place stock in the idea that my Qur’an...
Michael Muhammad Knight
7.10.13
Features

I Went To a Festival on The Baltic Coast

This weekend, while Britain remembered what it felt like to go outside with just a t-shirt on, I was in Poland, at a music festival with Blur, Arctic Monkeys and Kendrick Lamar.
Ryan Bassil
7.10.13
Photo

Nina Manandhar Photographs the People of East London

Not just the ones who've invaded it from the Home Counties.
Amelia Phillips
7.10.13
Features

Kanye’s Yeezus And UV Race’s Racism Are The Same Album

Two albums created on the other side of the world – one lauded by the old (avant) garde, one championed by a long-dead Austrian Archduke. Both contain ten tracks apiece. But the similarities between Racism and Yeezus don’t end there,
Lachlan Kanoniuk
7.10.13
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