YouTube's Bungled PR Announcements Made Carlos Maza's Harassment Worse

YouTube rolled out a major policy change amid a high-profile harassment campaign by Steven Crowder's fans. | Continue reading


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Nasa Is Selling Out the International Space Station

The ISS will be open to tourists and commercial manufacturing, NASA leaders announced on Friday at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City. | Continue reading


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Why GOG Suddenly Fixed a 13-Year-Old 'Far Cry' Glitch

A modder helped GOG fix the bug Ubisoft introduced in 2006. | Continue reading


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Apple is still trying to sue the owner of an independent iPhone repair shop

Apple lost its counterfeit case against a Norwegian repair shop owner last year, but the $1 trillion company won't let it go. | Continue reading


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Researchers Can Make People Say Anything in Videos by Rewriting Their Words

Using text inputs, a team of machine learning experts edited videos of people to realistically form words they never said. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s Ring Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in Its Advertisements

Ring, Amazon's doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

YouTube Is Finally Banning Nazis, Holocaust Denial, and Sandy Hook Truthers

YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events took place.” | Continue reading


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New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050

The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military. | Continue reading


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Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050

The climate change analysis was written by a former fossil fuel executive and backed by the former chief of Australia's military. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

The Black Woman Who Biked Across the US Alone During the 1930s Jim Crow Era

Despite pervasive racism and the weight of the Great Depression, Bessie Stringfield found freedom on the open road. | Continue reading


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The Rise of the Minimalist Skincare Routine

Fatigued by multi-step routines and lackluster results, some people are dramatically scaling back their skincare regimens. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

How to Make Your Own AirPods for $4

A 15-year-old made a working pair of DIY AirPods using an old pair of headphones and a soldering iron. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome

Google says the changes will improve performance and security. Ad block developers and consumer advocates say Google is simply protecting its ad dominance. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less

The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter

"Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals? Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals? How should we be thinking about this? What actually works?" | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter

"Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals? Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals? How should we be thinking about this? What actually works?" | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Served a Summons If He Sets Foot in Canada

The Facebook founder and CEO Sheryl Sandberg snubbed international lawmakers, again, at a committee hearing in Canada on Tuesday. | Continue reading


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'Mario Maker' Level Has Been Played 2.6M Times and Never Beaten

It's a level where you don't have to touch the controller, but you only have a one in 7.5 million chance of actually making it to the end. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Minds, the ‘Anti-Facebook,’ Has No Idea What to Do About All the Neo-Nazis

Minds is home to neo-Nazis, and wants its users to help decide what content stays on the site. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

The Eyes Are the Prize: Eye-Tracking Technology Is Advertising's Holy Grail

Bundled into VR headsets or AR glasses, eye tracking will enable companies to collect your intimate and unconscious responses to real-world cues. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

A Teen Hacked Apple Twice, Hoping They'd Give Him a Job

A magistrate spared the boy a conviction, telling him to "use your gifts for good rather than evil". | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

GamerGate Politician ‘Sargon of Akkad’ Loses Election Bid

It was part of an overwhelming loss for the party he represented, UKIP. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Teens Hacked Their Teacher's Computer to Change Grades for Money

"It wasn't necessarily the most legal thing, but something to do that was sort of fun." | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Scientists Map the Geometry of a Single Electron for the First Time

The new research could be useful for the development of spin-based quantum computers. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

How the Mandela Effect Took over the Internet

Have you misremembered the spellings of childhood favourites like 'The Berenstain Bears,' Froot Loops, and Jif peanut butter? This theory explains why. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Hackers Breach Company That Makes License Plate Readers for U.S. Government

The hacker known as "Boris Bullet-Dodger" has published what appears to be internal data belonging to Perceptics, which provides license plate reader technology for the Mexico border. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)

It's been nearly 10 years since 'Miegakure,' was first shown off, but it's not dead yet. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users

Multiple sources and emails also describe SnapLion, an internal tool used by various departments to access Snapchat user data. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

People Are Finally Fighting Back Against the College Textbook Industry 'Scam'

Students who can't afford their course materials—along with a rogue professor—are taking on the system. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

It's Getting Way Too Easy to Create Fake Videos of People's Faces

Samsung researchers developed an algorithm that only needs one source image to create fake videos. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Republican Senator Says Facebook and Instagram Need to ‘Disappear’

Josh Hawley, who works on antitrust, says social media companies don't need to be broken up, they need to be eradicated altogether. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Ravens Spread Negative Emotions to Their Friends

“Our findings thus suggest negative emotional contagion in ravens, and in turn advance our understanding of the evolution of empathy.” | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts

Motherboard has identified a specific UK bank that has fallen victim to so-called SS7 attacks, and sources say the issue is wider than previously reported. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

'Fortnite' Pro's Lawsuit Could Change How Streamers Do Business

Turnery ‘Tfue’ Tenney is suing FaZe Clan for allegedly acting against his interests. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do

Is fish oil really just snake oil? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 4 years ago

A Computer Afflicted with 6 Infamous Viruses Has Passed $1M at Auction

The art project can be yours for a mere seven figures. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

The Definition of a Kilogram Just Changed Worldwide

The kilogram is the last unit of measurement to be untethered from an artificial object. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog Copyright Trial Will Help Decide Who Can Use Memes

Are memes fair use? Or can you be sued for sharing and profiting off them? | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Infamous Forum for Instagram Hackers Gets Hacked by Other Hackers

Hackers hacked the OGUSERS forum and published its database in another hacker forum. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Leaving Earth comes with serious psychological risks

The film ‘Aniara’ asks what humans are without our home world. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Who Killed the American Demoscene?

I went to Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties, where programmers showcase artistic audiovisual works made in marathon coding sessions. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Eric the first British Robot who vanished without a trace

Science Museum curator Ben Russell wants to raise £35,000 to rebuild Eric from scratch. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

Law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition systems with little to no rules, found a new study by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

It’s Almost Impossible to Tell If Your iPhone Has Been Hacked

A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there’s little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

AirPods Are a Social and Environmental Disaster

We sat down with Caroline Haskins, author of 'AirPods Are a Tragedy,' to dig deep into the human cost of the ubiquitous buds. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

AT&T Contractors, Verizon Employee Charged with Helping SIM Swapping Ring

The indictments show that sometimes stealing phone numbers to hack accounts is an inside job. | Continue reading


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