Dutch Cities Ban 15-Minute Delivery Services

Amsterdam and Rotterdam have banned the “dark stores” while four other cities look to institute similar measures. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Workers in Belgium Can Ask for a 4-Day Week with No Loss of Pay

But campaigners say hours should be reduced, not compressed into fewer days. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Are Data Mining Black Holes to See If They Are Holograms

Quantum computing can help probe the bizarre innards of black holes, an environment that defies standard physics. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Please Delete Your Recordings: Inside a Police Conference

Police, surveillance tech companies, and government contractors gathered to joke about law enforcement robots in locker rooms and talk about getting close to senior police officers by giving them hunting holidays. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Airbnb, Lyft, Uber ‘Expressed Interest’ in Using Clearview AI

The tech companies expressed internet is using Clearview AI's technology for identity verification, according to Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The Harebrained Scheme to Turn Magic: The Gathering Cards into NFTs

mtgDAO wants to mint Magic: The Gathering cards into NFTs. Wizards of the Coast may have some issues with that. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors

GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?

Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Meet The Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a ‘Poverty Trap’

Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads

The new service is launching this summer with a web3 style wallet where users watch ads to earn credits for movies. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The World’s Biggest Optical Telescope Will Search for Alien Life

Suzanne Ramsay and Michele Cirasuolo, scientists with the Extremely Large Telescope, talk about the observatory’s unprecedented abilities on Motherboard’s Space Show. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Rabbit Hole

Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous. Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Analyzing the Bizarre Sale of Melania Trump’s $170k NFT

The crypto used to purchase the former first lady’s NFT came from the NFT creator themselves, blockchain records reveal. But why? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Has Received $4.7B in Subsidies Globally, Watchdog Says

The report highlights how little is known about the cost of Amazon’s expansion to taxpayers around the planet. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

‘America’s Army’, The Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years

For two decades, the U.S. Army used a video game to reach new recruits. It’s finally shutting it down. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

NSO Group Gave Pegasus Spyware Demo to the NYPD

An email obtained by Motherboard says that the audience for a demo of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware included "NYPD intel." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators?

Knowing what shape rotators and wordcels are will make you significantly dumber, but if you simply must, read on. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The Death of Rusty N Edie’s, One of the Horniest Places on the 90s Internet

Twenty-nine years ago, the FBI raided one of the biggest bulletin board systems (BBS) of the 1990s. Somehow, it wasn’t because of all the porn they hosted. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster

Top marketplaces facilitate epic amounts of theft and wash trading, scams are rampant, and the cringe is unbearable. Can it last? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Texas Bitcoin Miners Shutting Down to Help Power Grid Survive Winter Storm

Bitcoin miners in energy-rich Texas are seizing the moment to make good on their promises of helping the power grid during Winter Storm Landon. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

I Lost My Mom to QAnon. Wordle Is Bringing Her Back

Josephine had almost given up trying to help her mother leave the QAnon cult. Then she discovered Wordle. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

$320M Crypto Heist Rocks 'Decentralized Finance' World

Someone stole $320 million in crypto from the cross-chain Wormhole platform in one of the largest hacks in crypto history. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras

TikTok users leave a note for their delivery drivers asking that they dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Glorified Electric Golf Carts for All

They are safe, sensible, affordable, and an environmentally friendly transportation option for short trips in cities or suburban sprawl. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Woman Says She Was ‘Virtually Gang-Raped’ in Facebook's Metaverse

“Within 60 seconds of joining—I was verbally and sexually harassed.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Academic Journal Claims It Fingerprints PDFs for ‘Ransomware,’ Not Surveillance

Elsevier embeds a unique code in every academic journal article users download. Security researchers fear this could be used to identify people who share PDFs. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy Has Shut Down a Chunk of the Canada-US Border

Anti-vax truckers are blockading a border entry point between Alberta and Montana. They're disrupting locals and "don't reflect" most truckers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

People Are Downloading the Next 2k Days of Wordle

You can preserve the original, blessedly free, Wordle and play it for about 7 more years. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

A Billion Years of Time Are Mysteriously Missing. Scientists Think They Know Why

The Great Unconformity has baffled geologists for a century. New research points to glaciers being the culprit. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

More Than 80% of NFTs Created for Free on OpenSea Are Fraud or Spam

After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said the decision was due to the amount of fraud and spam. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

QR Codes Suck

I just want to hold a menu again. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Scientists Are Creating 'Synthetic Dimensions' to Probe Limits of 4D Reality

Synthetic dimensions provide a way to mimic higher dimensions within the confines of four-dimensional spacetime. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Wonderland Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken

The co-founder of DeFi protocol Wonderland was revealed to be a convicted fraudster who previously co-founded the notorious QuadrigaCX exchange. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

What You Learn from a Year of Watching Bad Financial Advice on TikTok

One anonymous finance professional has been tracking the worrying number of get-rich-quick schemes on the platform. "It's getting really bad," he says. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address

The NFT shows how viewers of NFTs on marketplaces like OpenSea may unexpectedly expose their data. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Pirates spammed an infamous Soviet-era short-wave radio station with memes

The UVB-76 numbers station took a break from being a suspected communications tool of Russian intelligence to blast 'Gangnam Style' | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Oral CBD Prevented Covid-19 Infection in Real-World Patients, Study Suggests

While not a substitute for vaccines, "CBD has the potential to prevent infections, such as breakthrough infections," the study's lead author said. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

People in Intimate Relationships with AI Chatbots

Replika users say that it's all too easy to form a meaningful – even romantic – attachment to your AI friend. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing

A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, introduced by Reps. Anna G. Eshoo of California and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, aims to do exactly that. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 2 years ago

“The problem with budget bikes is everything. They’re literally built to fail.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Man Upset That Hackers Stole His Bored Ape NFTs

Hackers tricked an investor into giving away their valuable NFTs, he claimed on Twitter, and tried convincing the rest of the internet not to buy them. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Edible Hemp-Infused Transit Tickets Are the True Face of Innovation

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Biden’s New Fuel Economy Standards Allow Cars to Pollute More If Not Called Cars

The “light truck” loophole for pickups and SUVs that allow them to pollute more than other cars. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Claims Elon Musk Is 'Sadistic,' Misogyny Is 'Rampant'

After she reported sexual harassment, Ashley Kosak was told such claims were “too private to openly discuss with the perpetrators,” she says. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

‘The Matrix’ Inspired a New Generation of Hackers

The Wachowskis' masterpiece steered countless people into cybersecurity, and changed hacking culture forever. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City (2010)

Yes, you can beat Sim City. Yes, you've got to be really intense to do it. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago

The Space-Out Competition Where People Do Nothing

“It's hard to explain, but there is something meaningful about getting together with people who willingly choose to do nothing.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 3 years ago