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Is the Government Watching You?

Everyone just learned that the National Security Agency can pretty much grab phone records of anyone it wants without a warrant. In all likelihood, that's just the tip of the surveillance-state iceberg. You are an open book as far as America's spy...
VICE Staff
6.6.13
Motherboard Blog

Is Anyone Really Surprised the NSA Is Currently Spying on Millions of Americans?

The US government has become so distrustful of its own citizens that the NSA has turned into a pathological information hoarder.
Derek Mead
6.6.13
Art

This Dadaist Net Art Will Bring A Smile To Your Face

Jasper Elings' art often uses images he finds on the internet to create an amusing reflection on the cultural status quo.
TCP Staff
6.6.13
Motherboard Blog

The Video Game Helmet That Can Hack Your Brain

For brain scientists Greg Siegle and Nicole Prause, understanding the brain is really tricky, and it's especially tricky when your subjects are in the middle of sexual intercourse.
Nick Childers
6.6.13
Here Be Dragons

The Developing World Needs GM Plants More Than It Needs Hippy Protesters

GM farming could improve millions of lives, so why are people so opposed to it?
Martin Robbins
6.6.13
Motherboard Blog

How We Came to Misunderstand Meritocracy

Much to the chagrin of the man who coined the term half a century ago, we’re missing the point.
ALEC LIU
6.6.13
News

The Murderer Who Escaped in Montreal Is Still Missing

Remember that prisoner who escaped while serving a life sentence for beating and killing a woman? Well, despite a national warrant for his arrest, 56 year-old Jean-Pierre Duclos is still on the loose and police don’t seem to be any closer to finding...
Joel Balsam
6.6.13
Meet the Nieratkos

Porn Stars Auction Their Bodies for Oklahoma Tornado Victims

I went to the Exxotica Porn Expo to ask some of the top adult-film stars what sexual act they'd be willing to donate to my fictitious auction to help raise money for the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes.
Chris Nieratko
6.6.13
Features

Announcing Festival Supreme, Tenacious D's Music and Comedy Festival

They just dropped a weird little video which features Jack Black wiggling his ding-a-ling inside of a jar of peanut butter. According to the band, their festival will be "the PT Barnum of comedy/music festivals. Minus the big top and elephant shit. OK, ma
Noisey Staff
6.6.13
Noisey

Noisey Have an Arena at Lovebox Next Month

It's going to be great.
Noisey
6.6.13
Sports

The Miami Heat Reader

Chris Bosh is considerate and thoughtful, interested in discussing the physics of a sentence, the use of dreams in creating plot, and irregular meter. For several years he kept a reading diary on LiveJournal under the username BigUpsBoshMane, which he...
Blake Butler
6.6.13
Motherboard Blog

Sulfur Batteries Could Power Your Smartphone Four Times Longer

Sulfur is "practically free," researchers say.
Jason Koebler
6.6.13
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