A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Big Business

Duke University and a private company have been selling access to unproven cord blood treatments for autism. Now, they're planning something much bigger. | Continue reading


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Twitch Hack of 135 GB of Data Includes How Much Its Biggest Streamers Make

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What’s the Point of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery?

A number of VC-backed startups promise to provide ultra-fast grocery delivery without raising prices or hurting workers. Whether it’s possible or will make cities better is still up for debate. | Continue reading


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Japanese Aquarium Found a Creature That Looks Like a Piece of Salmon Sushi

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Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

The developer behind the NFT project, 'Evil Ape,' suddenly disappeared along with its Twitter account, website, and $2.7 million. | Continue reading


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Facebook’s Outage Shows We Need Antitrust Action Now

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You Probably Don't Need a VPN

Most Americans may be better off not paying for a commercial VPN, according to multiple security experts. | Continue reading


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Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked

Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years. | Continue reading


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The Ground Is Exploding Due to Climate Change in Siberia

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Lessons on Anxiety from a Stray Cat (2019)

I tried to tame my anxiety and a cat that appeared at my window. I failed at both. | Continue reading


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Iceland Has Built a Carbon Negative Power Station

Using resources that can be found on every continent, scientists at this terminal in Iceland have found a new carbon sink. | Continue reading


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Jamie Spears Spied on Britney Through iCloud

A security firm spied on Britney Spears through her iCloud account. Here's how to figure out if someone is doing that to you, and how to stop it. | Continue reading


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The FCC Wants to Force Wireless Carriers to Finally Stop SIM Hijacking

FCC rule update takes aim at rampant identity and cryptocurrency theft made possible by wireless number port-out fraud. | Continue reading


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Former OnlyFans employees could access users’ and models' personal information

Addresses, passports, bank statements and other sensitive personal data were viewable, long after leaving the company. | Continue reading


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Feds Allege Tech CEO Designed ‘Parasitic Narco Sub’ for Drug Cartels

Millionaire Marty Tibbitts died in 2018. The DEA said he was at the center of a vast criminal conspiracy involving cocaine, submarines, and cash. | Continue reading


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The Perfect Birth Control for Men Is Here. Why Can't We Use It? (2015)

After 30 years, the male birth control shot finally has momentum in the US. | Continue reading


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A Tesla Big Battery Is Getting Sued over Power Grid Failures in Australia

The Big Battery in Southern Australia, built by Tesla and operated by French company Neoen, is being sued for failing to support the grid as promised. | Continue reading


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Tesla’s ‘Self-Driving’ Beta Testers Protect the Company from Critics

Every so often, a clip of a Tesla running experimental beta driver assistance software goes viral. But who are the people behind the wheel? And why does it matter? | Continue reading


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Doctors Are Being Forced Off Clubhouse by Anti-Vax Harassment

VICE World News speaks to doctors who have given up trying to fight what they see as a tide of anti-vax hostility and misinformation on the audio-only app. | Continue reading


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Zillow Isn’t Big Enough to Manipulate the National Housing Market (Yet)

The company says an internet theory about its house-flipping scheme is “misinformation.” | Continue reading


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Larry Tesler, the Inventor of Copy-Paste Dies

Tesler, who worked at Apple for decades, invented copy-paste functionality while at Xerox PARC and is responsible for a major deal that helped turn ARM into a dominant force in computers. | Continue reading


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What Went Wrong at the Los Angeles Times

Two years ago, a billionaire owner asked Norman Pearlstine to reinvent a storied American newspaper. Some in his own newsroom say he's fallen short. | Continue reading


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HelloFresh Workers Unionize to Improve Brutal Working Conditions

Fed up with low wages and injuries, more than 1,000 HelloFresh kitchen factory workers in Colorado and California are unionizing with UNITE HERE. | Continue reading


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A Stalkerware Firm Is Leaking Real-Time Screenshots of People's Phones Online

pcTattleTale, which markets itself for monitoring spouses without their consent, lets anyone view screenshots of infected devices by just visiting specific URLs. | Continue reading


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Winged Microchips Are the Smallest Flying Machines Made by Humans

The biodegradable fliers are the size of sand grains, and could be used to track airborne pathogens, monitor pollution, or collect scientific data. | Continue reading


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The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous

The Intelligence Community has deployed ad-blocking technology, according to a letter sent by Congress and shared with Motherboard. | Continue reading


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The Predecessor to Google Earth Was Clumsy, yet Powerful

Terravision would have been weird and powerful, but it never stood a chance. | Continue reading


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Solo Cup Company Got Artist’s Instagram Nuked for Using Famous Jazz Pattern

Christopher Locke makes art that’s a comment on our disposable culture. One of the brands he parodies got him removed from Instagram. | Continue reading


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A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say

Toxic microbial blooms thrived during the Great Dying, the most severe extinction in Earth's history, and they are proliferating again due to human activity. | Continue reading


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Government Scientists Are Creating Matter from Pure Light

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory turned light into electrons, validating a theory that dates back nearly a century. | Continue reading


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Unpaid Fact-Checkers Are Getting Burnout from Debunking So Many Nazis on TikTok

And they’re mad as hell. | Continue reading


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Leaked Apple Training Videos Show How It Undermines Third-Party Repair

Eight leaked training videos show how Apple instructs its repair partners to buy expensive parts when cheap ones will do. | Continue reading


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Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

A new book highlighting the visual evolution of web design paints a picture of a risk-taking creative culture that hasn’t been quite the same since Steve Jobs stuck a knife into Flash. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make

Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control. | Continue reading


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U.S. company sold zero-click hacking tool to UAE spy operation

A newly unsealed court filing reveals more links between the UAE's Project Raven hacking operation and U.S. companies. | Continue reading


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Tesla Wanted $22,500 to Replace a Battery. An Independent Shop Fixed It for $5k

A repair bill that costs as much as the car itself is a case study in whey we need national right-to-repair legislation. | Continue reading


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TikTok Is Removing Educational Hacking Videos

Multiple creators showed that TikTok is particularly aggressive at removing videos that are designed to educate viewers about hacking. | Continue reading


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Fake Press Release Claiming Walmart Is Accepting Litecoin Boosts Its Value

Litecoin, a Bitcoin spinoff from 2011, had a brief shining moment before a viral press release claiming Walmart was on board was found to be fake. | Continue reading


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Poet Never Went to School, So She Invented Her Own Alphabet to Write Poetry

Zareefa Jan has created a “language of circles” to help her document her poems. Only she can decode them. | Continue reading


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People Are Spending Millions of Dollars on Loot for Games That Don't Exist

"Loot" is the latest NFT craze, but whether any of the projects will ever result in a playable game is anybody's guess. | Continue reading


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Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom

Global Tel Link Corporation says the system would allow an inmate to "for a brief time, imagine himself outside or away from the controlled environment." | Continue reading


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Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism

At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radicallydifferent societal and economic structure. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Anti-Vaxxers Are Learning How to Game TikTok’s Algorithm and They’re Going Viral

A VICE World News investigation led to TikTok removing over 50 videos, many of which had been on the platform for weeks and been watched millions of times. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit

The guy who gave Hunter Biden’s laptop to Rudy Giuliani sued Twitter for defamation and a federal judge in Florida just dismissed the case with prejudice. | Continue reading


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China Is Aiming to Develop Miles-Wide, 'Ultra-Large' Spacecraft

A new five-year plan highlights an 'urgent need' to develop megaprojects in space, such as human habitats and space-based solar power plants. | Continue reading


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If You Can’t Stand People Fidgeting, You May Have Misokinesia

"I want to cry as I think of these triggers. Legs shaking, people swaying, fingers and toes tapping.” | Continue reading


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Remington Subpoenas Report Cards of 5 Children Killed in Sandy Hook Shooting

As part of a lawsuit defense, the company that made the guns used in the Sandy Hook shooting demanded the disciplinary and attendance records of dead children. | Continue reading


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The Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time

Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control. | Continue reading


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