The Supreme Court Leaks All the Time

the original Roe v Wade ruling was leaked too, published in Time hours before it was announced # | Continue reading


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Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries

Scientists modified an enzyme that can break down plastic in one week to create fresh material for new products. | Continue reading


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Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics

It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards. | Continue reading


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CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders

Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too. | Continue reading


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Internal Government Report Shows Why Arecibo Couldn’t Be Saved

Officials warned of a “catastrophic failure” just days before the iconic observatory collapsed in December 2020. | Continue reading


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New Video Game Lets You Drive Ukraine's Fearsome Tractors

A symbol of Ukrainian resistance is now a bona fide video game star. | Continue reading


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Bored Ape Virtual Land Sale Breaks Ethereum, Wastes $180M in Fees

Yuga Labs' Otherside sale sparked a "gas war" that wasted millions and clogged up Ethereum, resulting in failed transactions. | Continue reading


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LAPD Veterans’ Harrowing ‘Pokemon Go’ Battle That Got Them Fired

Read "dishonesty.pdf," the harrowing transcript of two LAPD officers trying to capture Snorlax in ‘Pokémon Go’ while ignoring a robbery. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Val Broeksmit, Deutsche Bank, and the Birth of a New Conspiracy Theory

Broeksmit, the whistleblower found dead in Los Angeles this week, was recently arrested for allegedly threatening employees at his old apartment complex. | Continue reading


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Facing Protests, Amazon Makes Cell Phone Access at Warehouses Permanent

The concession to warehouse workers follows the first union victory at an Amazon warehouse in US history. | Continue reading


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Netflix Lays Off the Journalists It Just Hired

It was not immediately clear how many employees Netflix laid off or if it plans to continue the website. | Continue reading


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‘I'm His Pig’: Dril Responds to Elon Musk Buying Twitter

Twitter’s premier poster shared his thoughts with us on the recent sale of the social media platform. | Continue reading


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'Bloodworms' harvest copper for metal jaws

"I had recently read Frank Herbert’s Dune, so I jumped at the opportunity to work with real life sand worms," said the study's lead author. | Continue reading


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It's the Billionaires' Internet, and We're Just Posting on It

You won't find liberation on a platform owned by this or that billionaire. | Continue reading


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If You Want to Leave Twitter Because of Elon Musk, These Are Your Options

There isn’t a site that can replace Twitter that is exactly like Twitter, but you have options for a slower, possibly better, social media experience. | Continue reading


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The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content. | Continue reading


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How to Not Be Boring, According to a Psychologist Who Researches Boredom

He’s also come up with a list of jobs considered the most boring by people. Is yours on it? | Continue reading


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Watch an Autopiloted Tesla Crash into a Multimillion-Dollar Jet

A Tesla Model Y with no one in the driver’s seat appears to have hit a private jet on a tarmac. | Continue reading


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Young People Are Lonelier Than Ever

30 percent say they don’t know how to make new friends and they’ve never felt more alone. | Continue reading


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Government-Funded Research into Worm Holes, Anti-Gravity and Invisibility Cloaks

The government is looking into worm holes, anti-gravity, and invisibility cloaks, according to documents obtained by Motherboard through FOIA. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Wind Power Surpasses Coal, Nuclear as Power Generation Source in US

For an entire day, wind power became the second-largest source of electricity in the country for the first time in recorded history. | Continue reading


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Lawsuit Targets Company That Harvests Location Data from 50M Cars

Last year as part of a Motherboard investigation, experts said Otonomo could face legal issues. Now the company is facing a class action lawsuit. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

US Adds Axie Infinity Hacker to North Korea Sanctions List

The hackers stole $624 million from the game’s Ronin Network bridge in one of the largest crypto hacks of all time. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Cryptocurrency Gave Birth to the Ransomware Epidemic

Ransomware gangs are targeting everyone from large and small businesses and government agencies to hospitals and schools. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Multiple People Shot and Explosive Devices Found in Brooklyn Subway Stop

Multiple people were shot and “several” undetonated explosive devices were discovered in a subway station in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Ukrainian Twitch Stars Are Streaming the War to Their Russian Audience

Twitch is one of the few platforms Ukrainians can use to speak directly to the Russian people. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The Secret Art Gallery Where Millionaires Buy Dinosaurs and Rare Objects

Meteorites, spacesuits and Hollywood memorabilia: Everything can be bought at Theatrum Mundi, if you have the cash. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Prepper Is Building a Post-Apocalyptic Internet

One engineer has built a new communications protocol that he says is resistant to disaster and central points of failure. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Amtrak Is Streaming an Empty Railroad on Twitch

Amtrak wants to run two round-trip trains a day between Mobile and New Orleans. Freight companies are fighting it. So Amtrak is taking it to Twitch. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Bizarre Phenomenon of Subliminal YouTube Videos (2019)

Millions of people think watching "subliminals" will make them grow taller and manifest money, but some say YouTubers are hiding dark messages in their videos. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Russian State TV Has Found a New Home on Gab

Days after YouTube kicked Kremlin-backed Russia Today off its platform, the propaganda network found a new home on the far-right social network. | Continue reading


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OpenSea ‘Sitting on Ticking Bomb’ as Lawsuits Pile Up over Stolen Apes

The NFT marketplace is now facing at least three lawsuits over stolen cartoon apes after a new complaint was filed this week. | Continue reading


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Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked with Apple AirTags Across Country

Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. | Continue reading


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It's Time to Start Studying the Downside of Psychedelics

Before psychedelic therapy and services becomes widely available, there needs to be a better understanding of all the ways these experiences can go wrong. | Continue reading


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Wtch This: Unravelling the Mystery Behind a Secret YouTube URL

Go and replace “watch” in any YouTube video URL with “wtch” and see what happens. I set out to find why. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Post Office

The Office of Inspector General found the agency did not have legal authority for searches in its "iCOP" surveillance program. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

What Does It Mean to Have a ‘Weird’ Brain in the Age of Neurodiversity?

Does a movement that pushes us to accept all cognitive and mental differences help people feel better? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Hackers Steal $600M from Play-to-Earn Game Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network

Ronin, a blockchain that supports the popular Ethereum-based play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has been hacked for over half a billion dollars. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Hackers Who Stole $50 Million in Crypto Say They Will Refund Some Victims

After stealing money from stablecoin Cashio, the hackers said they will return some of the stolen money, as “the intention was only to take money from those who do not need it, not from those who do.” | Continue reading


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Scientists Find Unexplained Waves Inside the Sun That Defy Known Physics

The undetermined nature of the newly discovered waves promises "novel physics" about the Sun and stars, reports a new study. | Continue reading


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Watch the First Stars in the Universe Being Born in This Incredible Simulation

"Cosmic dawn," when the first stars formed, is a murky period of history of the universe. Watch it happen in this simulation from MIT scientists. | Continue reading


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Scientists Capture Best Images yet of Unexplained Ring Structures in Space

Odd Radio Circles (ORCs), which stretch across more than a million light-years, have perplexed scientists for years. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The Secretive US Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside Russia

Backed with funding from the U.S. government’s Open Technology Fund, Lantern has spent two years building a peer-to-peer network inside Russia. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Hackers Provide Livestream of Dozens of Cameras Inside Russia

The hackers plastered "Putin is killing children" and other messages across the feeds. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

DIY Volunteers Are Repairing Ukraine’s Destroyed Internet Infrastructure

The war effort's "invisible heroes" are risking their lives to keep information flowing. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Woman Performing Rain-Stopping Ritual Becomes Unlikely Star of MotoGP

Some questioned the merits of performing the ritual at a global sports event, with others calling for respect of indigenous culture. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report

The classified version of the much-hyped UFO report describes the “shapes” of UFOs, is far more interesting than the one released to the public. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Why Do I Always Tweet and Delete?

Psychologists and tweet-deleters help explain my favorite pastime (that weirdly makes me feel a little guilty). | Continue reading


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