Typing Is a Website About WebsitesVICE - Jason KoeblerSometimes, it's good to just think about websites. This is a website, for example. Sometimes, I type in website URLs into my website machine to see what website comes back. Today I was wondering what is
Climate Change New, Dire Climate Models Say the Planet Warms Faster Than We ThoughtVICE - Madeleine GregoryTwo new climate models predict that global warming due to climate change will be faster and more severe than previously thought, meaning humanity will have to work even harder to curb its emissions and
Birds North America Lost Nearly 30% of Its Birds In the Last 50 YearsVICE - Sarah WellsAn under-examined biodiversity crisis has been creeping across North America for decades, according to new research: the mass loss of birds. Since 1970, the US and Canada have experienced a loss of nearly
Surveillance The Private Surveillance System That Tracks Cars NationwideVICE - Motherboard StaffIn just a few taps and clicks, a secret surveillance infrastructure created by a private company can show any user on its interface where a car has been seen throughout the U.S. With an private investigator
Amazon Amazon Strikers Say Bezos’ Climate Pledge Is ‘Not Enough’VICE - Lauren Kaori GurleyA day before 1,550 Amazon workers are set to strike over the company’s carbon footprint, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced a new climate pledge with the goal of reaching the Paris climate accord goals 10
Area 51 There's a New 'Storm Area 51' Event With Running Water and ShowersVICE - MJ BaniasWith only days to go before various ‘Storm Area 51’ events, rural Nevada has become a hotbed of controversy. Last week, two Dutch YouTubers were arrested for trespassing onto the secretive air base. Two
Evolution This Is Our First Look at This Prehistoric Human Relative, Made Using DNAVICE - Becky FerreiraYou, me, and every person on Earth are the last surviving members of a genus called Homo. But we weren’t always the only humans on the planet. Neanderthals and Denisovans, two “archaic humans” that are
Internet of Things The Internet of Things Is Still a Privacy Dumpster Fire, Study FindsVICE - Karl BodeA new study has once again found that most “internet of things” (IOT) devices routinely deliver an ocean of sensitive data to partners around the world, frequently without making these data transfers or
Mobile Verizon Makes SIM Swapping Hard. Why Doesn’t AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile?VICE - Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiLast week, we revealed the existence of a little known feature that could make T-Mobile customers a bit more secure against the rising fraud known as SIM swapping. The feature is called NOPORT, and it
AT&T AT&T Says Customers Can’t Sue the Company for Selling Location Data to Bounty HuntersVICE - Joseph CoxAT&T is arguing that its customers can’t sue the company for selling location data to bounty hunters, according to recently filed court records. AT&T says the customers signed contracts that force them
WeWork It Was My Umbrella That Locked Us Out of the WeWorkVICE - Mike PonticelliI came to work on Monday morning and found I couldn’t get into the office. Casey got to work before I did and he was standing there, outside of the door, with no way to get in. It was like a “does not
FBI The FBI Tried to Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone NetworkVICE - Joseph CoxThe FBI tried to force the owner of an encrypted phone company to put a backdoor in his devices, Motherboard has learned. The company involved is Phantom Secure, a firm that sold privacy-focused BlackBerry
Asteroids Asteroid Dust Could Help Cool the Climate, Scientists SayVICE - Becky FerreiraDust from a cataclysmic asteroid collision that occurred beyond the orbit of Mars some 468 million years ago may have helped trigger an ice age and an explosion of biodiversity in life on Earth. This published
Azealia Banks Azealia Banks Not-So-Subtly Imagines Elon Musk’s ‘Public Execution’ in New SongVICE - Edward Ongweso JrIn a now-deleted Instagram post, rapper Azealia Banks revealed that the digital version of her latest mixtape, Yung Rapunxel II, will feature a song telling a story of "an ungrateful technocrat” whose
Kickstarter Workers Accuse Kickstarter of Union-Busting in Federal ComplaintVICE - Lauren Kaori GurleyOn Monday night, unionizing employees at Kickstarter filed a complaint with the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) for allegedly wrongfully terminating two employees. Both of the employees were on the
Uber 1,000 Protesting Uber Drivers Brought NYC Traffic to a StandstillVICE - Edward Ongweso JrTo protest of changes being rolled out by Uber and Lyft, more than a thousand Uber and Lyft drivers led a caravan that brought rush hour traffic in New York City to a virtual standstill. The direct action
Machine Learning Algorithms Have Nearly Mastered Human Language. Why Can’t They Stop Being Sexist?VICE - Lynne Peskoe-YangTeaching computers to understand human language used to be a tedious and imprecise process. Now, language algorithms analyze oceans of text to teach themselves how language works. The results can be unsettling,
Climate Stop Asking People of Color to Get Arrested to Protest Climate ChangeVICE - Tatiana GaravitoIndigenous peoples and people of color are disproportionately affected by our global climate crisis. But in the mainstream green movement and in the media, they are often forgotten or excluded. This is
Lyft Lyft Allegedly Kept a Driver on the Platform Who Held a Passenger at Gunpoint While Two Other Men Raped HerVICE - Lauren Kaori GurleyIt took the majority of a year for Alison Turkos to piece together the details of a night in 2017 that she ordered a Lyft to her home in Brooklyn. The ride from a birthday party at a Crown Heights bar
Smallpox An Explosion Rocked a Russian Pathogen Lab That Stores Ebola, SmallpoxVICE - Matthew GaultAn explosion at a Russian research lab housing lethal viruses such as Ebola and smallpox was reportedly so severe that it blew out windows on Monday. A gas canister was to blame for the blaze at the Vektor
Play buttonPrivacy This Software Will Give You a Fake Face to Protect Your PrivacyVICE - Samantha ColeIn A Scanner Darkly, Phillip K. Dick imagined a "scramble suit" that projected the likenesses of millions of other people onto the wearer. Science fiction writers have long mused over how we'll protect
Edward Snowden The US Government Is Suing Edward SnowdenVICE - Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiNSA leaker Edward Snowden just published a new book and the U.S. government wants to get all the money he makes from it. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Snowden in an attempt
Artificial Insemination Bull Semen Lab Explosion a 'Blow' to FarmersVICE - Maddie BenderAustralian firefighters were in for a load of trouble after a fire at a cattle services building caused 100 vats of bull semen to blow early Tuesday morning. For 20 years, Yarram Herd Services has provided
Propaganda Neo-Nazis Are Glorifying Osama Bin LadenVICE - Ben MakuchAs the threat of militant neo-Nazi groups expands and gains the attentions of federal authorities, their online propaganda tactics are taking a page out of an unlikely playbook: well-known jihadist groups.
Archives Climate Change Could Erase Human History. These Archivists Are Trying to Save ItVICE - Caroline HaskinsFor one, there’s the gravestones, mausoleums, statues, and stone structures. It’s hard to describe the scale of it. They rise up, respectfully spaced out, on nearly every patch of ground for miles, up
Apple While Apple Is Launching an iPhone, its Largest Competitors Are Going on a Climate StrikeVICE - Lauren Kaori GurleyIn a historic first, more than 1,200 Amazon employees announced last week that they will walk out of their offices on September 20 over the company’s carbon footprint. In the following days, tech workers
Internet This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With ItVICE - Joseph CoxIn just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used by their industry, repossession agents, insurance
Space Inside Lockheed Martin’s New Facility for Simulating Space WarsVICE - Sarah Scoles“Space is a hostile place,” former B-52 bomber pilot and current Lockheed Martin employee Kurt Nelson told me. By this, he means that the cosmos is just naturally so, what with its radiation, its frigidity,
Play buttonU.S. Navy The Navy Says the UFOs in Tom DeLonge’s Videos Are ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’VICE - MJ BaniasIn official statements, the US Navy has for the first time officially stated that the three UFO videos made public by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge’s UFO research organization are footage of real
