Apr 1, 2016 Tech

Gabriella Lewis

Google's Latest April Fools Joke Was a Complete Disaster

Apr 1, 2016 Gabriella Lewis

Google introduced a "Mic Drop" button in Gmail that let users block all replies to an email. It did not go well.

Apr 1, 2016

Meghan Neal

​Behind the Scenes with Run the Jewels’ New VR Music Video

Apr 1, 2016 Meghan Neal

"We grew up thinking that virtual reality and jet packs and flying cars were part of our future."

Apr 1, 2016

Roisin Kiberd

The Growing Pains of YouTube’s ‘Guru of Cute’

Apr 1, 2016 Roisin Kiberd

Lolita-styled "living doll" Venus Angelic eloped with a Japanese fan, setting off a very public family feud with her momager.

Mar 31, 2016

Sébastien Wesolowski

How to Build an Empire by Getting High on YouTube

Mar 31, 2016 Sébastien Wesolowski

Legalization in the US has allowed marijuana mavens to build a following on camera.

Mar 31, 2016

Sarah Emerson

Scientists Have Identified 11 Indicators of a ‘Good Death’

Mar 31, 2016 Sarah Emerson

Admit it, you're morbidly curious.

Mar 31, 2016 Tech

VICE Staff

A Guy in France Got Three Months in Prison for Texting His Ex the Gun Emoji

Mar 31, 2016 VICE Staff

The judge determined the gun emoji was essentially a death threat and sentenced the guy to six months, three of them suspended.

Mar 31, 2016 Tech

Harry Cheadle

Silicon Valley Is Wetting Itself Over a $700 Juicer

Mar 31, 2016 Harry Cheadle

Venture capital firms have pumped more than $100 million into Juicero, a company that promises to "disrupt" the juice industry with a very, very expensive appliance.

Mar 31, 2016

Victoria Turk

I Tried Tripping on Virtual Reality

Mar 31, 2016 Victoria Turk

"Turn on, boot up, jack in."

Mar 30, 2016

William Enck and Adwait Nadkarni

What if the FBI Tried to Crack an Android Phone? We Attacked One to Find Out

Mar 30, 2016 William Enck and Adwait Nadkarni

What happens when one tries to crack into a locked Android phone?

Mar 30, 2016

Clinton Nguyen

What Life for a Bangladeshi Click Farmer Looks Like

Mar 30, 2016 Clinton Nguyen

It's not the sweatshop labor you're thinking of.

Mar 29, 2016

Becky Ferreira

Researchers Will Try to Grow Space Drugs on the Space Station

Mar 29, 2016 Becky Ferreira

"NASA needs to develop self-sustaining measures to keep humans healthy in space because calling 911 is not an option."

Mar 29, 2016

Amy Martyn

Even Fracking Fans Wonder Why the Feds Would Allow Drilling Under This Lake

Mar 29, 2016 Amy Martyn

Lewisville Lake is a crucial reservoir in North Texas, but the federal government says nearby fracking would pose no appreciable risk.

Mar 29, 2016

Nadja Sayej

In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, But Sex Is Banned

Mar 29, 2016 Nadja Sayej

With the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork.

Mar 29, 2016 Tech

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VICE Staff

We Test Drive a Driverless Truck on Today's Episode of 'Daily VICE'

Mar 29, 2016 VICE Staff

Then, Motherboard explains the dangerous flight history of NASA's test plane known as the "vomit comet," and we explore the South African ghost town photographed in the March issue of VICE magazine.

Mar 28, 2016

Laura Kate Dale

A Video Game About Dating Military Tanks? Sure, Why Not

Mar 28, 2016 Laura Kate Dale

Panzermadels is an odd amalgamation of cute nods to military history and Japanese dating sim tropes.

Mar 28, 2016

Matt Guariglia

Next Time You See a Taxi, Ask Yourself, Is This a Cop?

Mar 28, 2016 Matt Guariglia

A Freedom of Information Act request produced sparing new details about the program.

Mar 28, 2016

Trevor Keaton Pogue

Old Volvos Last Forever, So This Guy’s Making Them Electric

Mar 28, 2016 Trevor Keaton Pogue

In response to environmental and customer demands, Seattle's X-Ray Auto has begun to experiment with electric conversions on the 50-year-old cars.

Mar 26 2016 Tech

Huw Oliver

How Long Before We See Virtual Reality Headsets in Our Mental Health Wards?

Mar 26 2016 Huw Oliver

There's more to virtual reality than having a new way to watch porn or make gaming more intense.

Mar 25, 2016 Tech

Arielle Pardes

How to Automate Your Job and Never Work Again

Mar 25, 2016 Arielle Pardes

Learn from a few savvy employees who wrote computer scripts to do their job.

Mar 25, 2016

Adrianne Jeffries

Learning to Tweet with Talib Kweli, the Master of the 140-Character Shutdown

Mar 25, 2016 Adrianne Jeffries

On this week's Radio Motherboard, we talk about when to block and when to mute with members of the Twitterati including rapper Talib Kweli.

Mar 25, 2016

Victoria Turk

Right for Men, Left for Women: Why Are Gendered Buttons Still a Thing?

Mar 25, 2016 Victoria Turk

In fact, why were they ever a thing?

Mar 24, 2016

Derek Mead

Microsoft's Tay Experiment Was a Total Success

Mar 24, 2016 Derek Mead

Microsoft wanted its Tay chatbot to be reflective of users. That succeeded!

Mar 24, 2016

Kaleigh Rogers

Why Smokers Are More Susceptible to Tuberculosis

Mar 24, 2016 Kaleigh Rogers

Researchers used genetically-modified zebrafish to explore why smokers are more likely to contract the bacterial infection.

Mar 24, 2016

Kari Paul

Microsoft Had to Suspend Its AI Chatbot After It Veered Into White Supremacy

Mar 24, 2016 Kari Paul

That was quick.