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This Is What It Feels Like to Be Lifted On Top of the Tallest Building in the Western Hemisphere

This is the best thing ever to happen to the Freedom Tower.
Brian Merchant
5.13.13
Motherboard Blog

We Don't Need More Laws to Regulate Drone Photography

For all the legal questions surrounding the use of drones, the legality of their use for photography and surveillance has the most direct effect on American citizens.
Derek Mead
5.13.13
Travel

Interviewing South African Rape Victims Isn't Easy When You're Disfigured

Late last year, I spent a week in South Africa's townships researching the jolly topic of masculinity and child rape for an article. Being my first foreign assignment, I was expecting a bit of a rough ride into an unknown territory and the horribly...
Rich McEachran, Photos: Charlie Shoemaker
5.13.13
Motherboard Blog

What's Going on in 'Les Horlogers'?

Mind = exploded.
Brian Anderson
5.13.13
Sittin' Sidewayz... With Skinny Friedman

Mitchy Slick's 'Feet Match the Paint' Is a West Coast Rap Album You Should Be Putting Into Your Ears

I will be making my friends play this shit on rooftops all summer. This is an album you should pay for.
Skinny Friedman
5.13.13
New music

Listen to Ell V Gore's New Single, "Lobotomy"

Noisy, viciously catchy no wave from this wonderful Toronto weirdo.
Sasha Hecht
Noisey Staff
Noisey Redactie
5.13.13
Motherboard Blog

The 'Ice Tsunami' Is the Most Beautiful Disaster You've Never Heard Of

Until a couple of these things smashed into Canada last weekend, we had no idea this could even happen.
Brian Merchant
5.13.13
Tech

Introducing Hate, the Map

In many ways, the Geography of Hate affirms what we already know: Americans are fucking racist. Homophobic and ableist, too. But while that may not come as a surprise, the map reveals a startling bigotry coursing beneath our preconceived notions of...
Brian Anderson
5.13.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

Styles P's 'Float' Has Kinda Shitty Beats But Styles Is Still the Hardest Rapper Out (Pause)

I'M NOT BLOWN AWAY BY THESE BEATS MY NIGGA THESE ARE THE "TWO CHEESEBURGERS" MEAL AT MCDONALDS WHEN WHAT I REALLY NEED IS THAT DOUBLE QUARTER POUNDER (PAUSE) WITH EXTRA PICKLES (WILD PAUSE).
The Kid Mero
5.13.13
Pen Pals

The Trials of Job

After my sweet release from prison last year, I struggled for about a year looking for a decent job. I badly wanted to work, but I quickly became discouraged when my first ten applications were shot down, probably thanks to my status as a felon. Those...
Bert Burykill
5.13.13
News

International Cyberthieves Stole $40 Million from a Bank in Ten Hours

In December 2012, and again in February of this year, a couple of highly coordinated cyberattacks targeted two Middle Eastern banks—Oman’s Bank of Muscat and the United Arab Emirates’ Bank of Ras Al Khaimah—in a $45 million dollar heist that evidently...
Patrick McGuire
5.13.13
Motherboard Blog

The Student Loan Bubble Looks Awfully Like the Housing Crisis, Top Bankers Say

Remember that whole subprime mortgage crisis that blew up the global economy? This is kind of like that.
ALEC LIU
5.13.13
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