Nov 19, 2015 Tech

Alex Pasternack

Plutonium in the Hills: How Do You Keep Nuclear Secrets Buried Forever?

Nov 19, 2015 Alex Pasternack

Decades after the fall of Soviet Union, scientists are working to determine the lasting environmental effects of Soviet nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

Nov 18, 2015 Tech

Arielle Pardes

What Life Will Look Like After the Robots Steal All Our Jobs

Nov 18, 2015 Arielle Pardes

Most people hate their jobs anyway. Why not kick your feet up and let a robot do it for you?

Nov 18, 2015 Tech

VICE Staff

This Headline-Writing Machine Produces Clickbait Poetry

Nov 18, 2015 VICE Staff

"Top Yoga Songs For Halloween," "Three-Week Abortion Day in Pictures," and more.

Nov 12, 2015 Tech

Zach Schwartz

Wikipedia's Co-Founder Is Wikipedia's Most Outspoken Critic

Nov 12, 2015 Zach Schwartz

"People that I would say are trolls sort of took over. The inmates started running the asylum."

Nov 10, 2015 Tech

Drew Millard

I Tried and Failed to Fight Someone on 'Tinder for Fights,' Because It Was Fake

Nov 10, 2015 Drew Millard

We talked to the guys behind the viral marketing stunt.

Nov 10, 2015 Tech

Michael Powell

The Internet Thinks I'm Banksy

Nov 10, 2015 Michael Powell

When you search for "average man," you get a picture of Michael Whatley's face. And now, he's the face of a fake Banksy meet-and-greet.

Nov 9, 2015 Tech

Julian Morgans

Some Genius Has Made an App to Help Angry Douchebags Fight Each Other

Nov 9, 2015 Julian Morgans

Rumblr is like Tinder, only for "throwing down" rather than boning.

Nov 7, 2015

Becky Ferreira

The Online Afterlife of Manhattan Project Physicist Philip Morrison

Nov 7, 2015 Becky Ferreira

"Scientific knowledge and understanding is not a purely cerebral affair; it is soaked with emotion, excitement, and nervous tension, as everyone knows who has heard Philip Morrison talk."

Nov 4, 2015 Tech

Drew Schwartz

Amazon Just Opened Its First IRL Bookstore

Nov 4, 2015 Drew Schwartz

After helping drive brick-and-mortar bookshops out of business, the tech giant launched its first physical store in Seattle.

Nov 5 2015 Tech

Ryan Max

Doing the Worm in Outer Space

Nov 5 2015 Ryan Max

Teeny tiny worms are helping us make the next giant leap for mankind.

Oct 22, 2015 Tech

Drew Millard

Netiquette 101: How to Use Emojis Without Having an Emojinal Breakdown

Oct 22, 2015 Drew Millard

Emojis are like The Force: they can be used for good, or they can be used for evil. Or they can be used as a symbol for a dick.

Oct 15, 2015 Tech

Devon Maloney

Everyone Loves NASA But No One Wants to Give It Money

Oct 15, 2015 Devon Maloney

The success of The Martian has increased public interest in NASA's mission to Mars, but so far it hasn't increased the amount of money Congress is giving NASA.

Oct 13, 2015 Tech

Drew Millard

Netiquette 101: How Much Internet Is Too Much Internet?

Oct 13, 2015 Drew Millard

When your perspective, your health and even your home are laid to waste by your insatiable desire to check all of your Facebook notifications.

Oct 13, 2015 Tech

VICE Staff

You Can Now Watch Joshua Cohen Write a Novel Online in Real Time

Oct 13, 2015 VICE Staff

The writer is composing his next book over the course of the next four days, and you can watch him do it in an experiment that's sort of like Twitch for novelists.

Oct 8, 2015 Tech

Arielle Pardes

Inside the Intense, Insular World of AOL Disc Collecting

Oct 8, 2015 Arielle Pardes

Most people threw out all those "50 Hours Free!" CD-ROMs that were everywhere in the 90s, but a select few collectors made it their mission to hoard hundreds or thousands of the discs.

Oct 16 2015 Tech

Mary Pilon

Silicon Valley’s Plan to Turn Inmates into Coders

Oct 16 2015 Mary Pilon

The program promises to be a modern-day foray beyond traditional prison jobs and a rare bridge between the technorati of the Bay Area and those living behind bars just next door.

Oct 3, 2015

Brian Merchant

Elon Musk’s Super-Efficient Rooftop Panels Will Help US Solar Thrive

Oct 3, 2015 Brian Merchant

As an important tax credit fades, it's imperative that companies like SolarCity make big moves to help solar survive.

Oct 2, 2015 Tech

Nick Chester

Meet the Man Tackling Corruption with His Revolutionary New Technology

Oct 2, 2015 Nick Chester

Colombian Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán has helped to uncover links between government officials and narco-paramilitary commanders. We asked him about his career and how he would tackle corruption in the UK.

Sep 30, 2015 Tech

José Luis Martínez Limón

Mexican Cartels Are Going High-Tech

Sep 30, 2015 José Luis Martínez Limón

The war on drugs isn't just fought with bullets. Recent announcements from Mexican authorities show that cartels are developing increasingly advanced networks of information technology.

Sep 30, 2015 Tech

Mark Hay

Japan’s Building an Army of Over-Friendly Androids for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Sep 30, 2015 Mark Hay

This summer, Japan unveiled plans for a digital tourist-assistance system that mimics the concept omotenashi: anticipating guests' needs and exceeding their expectations to the point of it being eerily predictive.

Sep 30, 2015 Tech

Zach Sokol

Trevor Paglen Photographs the Underwater Telecommunication Cables Tapped by the NSA

Sep 30, 2015 Zach Sokol

The artist, known for visualising classified government programs and secret operations, took a literal deep dive into government surveillance for his latest project, which documents the seafloor fibre optic cables where the NSA mines personal data.

Sep 29, 2015 Tech

Drew Millard

Water on Mars Means We Might Be Martians, Says NASA

Sep 29, 2015 Drew Millard

The discovery of liquid water on Mars raises the possibility that human life may have come from the Red Planet.

Sep 29, 2015 Tech

Mike Pearl

Meet the Drought Truther Who Thinks the Government Is Behind California's Long Dry Spell

Sep 29, 2015 Mike Pearl

Former solar engineer Dane Wigington believes chemtrails are to blame for the state's record dry spell – and a surprising number of people agree.

Sep 29, 2015 Tech

Eternity Martis

Canada’s Tinder Men Are Annoying Black Women with Their Racist and Sexist Bullshit

Sep 29, 2015 Eternity Martis

Life is tough enough dating as a black woman without having to deal with creepers messaging you about "dark chocolate".