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Why We Love Messing With AI Bots

One day, artificial intelligence will be powerful enough to blend seamlessly with consciousness. Its presence will be so ubiquitous, its influence so permeating, that all of human civilization will be guided and micromanaged in accordance with the...
Janus Rose
8.29.11
Art

Abstract Expressionist Robot Paints His Feelings For You

A machine that paints its own body of work, according to what it hears.
Kevin Holmes
8.29.11
Photos

Fun and Games at El-Buss Refugee Camp

Welcome to Buss Camp, where every surface is covered in broken glass and fresh bullet holes.
Juan Zober de Francisco
8.29.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Nuclear Power Plants on the Moon and Mars, Irene Brings Shrooms, US Diplomats Love Genetically Engineered Crops

h3. One: Nuclear power plants for "the Moon and Mars":http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/nuclear-power-plants-for-settlements-on-the-moon-and-mars/2779 (ZDNet) h3. Zero: We have no idea who crashed the google car, "despite what google says":http...
Ones Zeros
8.29.11
Motherboard Blog

The Copyright Nightmare of "I Have a Dream"

If you weren't alive to witness Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" "speech":http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mlk01.asp on the Washington Mall 48 years ago this week, you might try to switch on the old YouTube and dial it up. But you won't...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.29.11
Photos

OFF! Secret Show At The Old Blue Last

OFF! have just signed with Vice Music!
Alessandro Bergonzoni
8.29.11
Tech

Second Life Helps This Quadriplegic Get Laid

Sarah is a 25-year-old girl from New Jersey. We met on a sex fetish forum and digitally bonded over our love of being tied up.
Karley Sciortino
8.29.11
Photo

Photographic Moratorium: CD Rainbows

Each week, we choose a photographic cliché that we think should never be used by anyone again ever. This week: that picture you took of the rainbow that appears when you shine a CD onto something that you thought you were the first one to notice.
Holly Lucas
8.29.11
Noisey

Theophilus London - Director's Cut

Here it is, the director's cut of Dell & Intel's first ever Special Engagement. Live from the Lustre Pearl in Austin with the Brooklyn-bred hip-hop prodigy Theophilus London, hosted by Telli Federline of Ninjasonik.
Jack Collins
8.29.11
Kill the Engine

Doritos and Loneliness

So far it has been over 100 degrees for 70+ days in Austin, which breaks some kind of old record for shitty weather here.
Michael Sieben
8.29.11
VICE News

Egypt's Second Revolution

The young Egyptians who toppled president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year still aren't satisfied. We went to Tahrir Square to take the pulse of their revolution in progress.
VICE Staff
8.29.11
The Mercy Rule

There's No Lockout in Streetball

Summer leagues in hoop capitals like New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles have always attracted top players in the NBA's off-season, but this year's summer leagues have been especially star-stacked.
David Roth
8.29.11
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