In the months following Apple's latest iPhone release, this little guy has been through every imaginable hell, including water submersion , 50-caliber rifles , liquid nitrogen , knives and hammers , microwaves , blenders , blow torches , thermite , Molotov cocktails , power drills , turkeys , Tasers…

Cody Wilson made 3D-printed guns famous. But there’s an easier and cheaper way to make a semi-automatic rifle at home, and it’s unregistered, unserialized and completely legal: buying gun parts online. As Fusion found last year in a joint investigation with Univision , the loophole that makes these…

There's something in her eyes. Something more than the bafflement you so often see in the faces of innocents victimised by the wars of others. It's something that haunts. Something that reaches you most powerfully not in your mind, but somewhere more prosaic. In your guts. In your bones. Her…

A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited. The biologists fear that the new technique is so effective and easy to use that some physicians may push ahead before its…

On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov stepped outside the thin metal shell of Voskhod-2 to float in the harsh void of space. For 12 minutes and 9 seconds, Leonov opened the doors on an entire new branch of exploration as the first spacewalker. It was nearly a disaster. Earlier on March 18, the Voshkhod-2…

Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Fusion Last night, Apple pushed out iOS 8.2 to my iPhone, an update to its operating system. The blurb for the update promised " improvements to the Health app ." Finally , I thought. When HealthKit was first introduced last year, it came under criticism for not…

When Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an accidental drug overdose on February 2, 2014 at age 46, it felt like a huge part of the past two decades of cinema had disappeared as well, as if all the wonderful characters he created were on some level buried with the man who played them. A shocked public…

Indonesian police stand guard at Wijaya Pura port as the Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran pass through on their way to Nusa Kambangan ahead of their execution.Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images As Indonesia prepares to execute up to 11 prisoners, including two Australians, a…

RECIPES | SCHOLARS | MUSIC | EXTRAS | LINKS A cache of old wine bottles that can be used for making counterfeit wine. French physicist, Philippe Hubert uses gamma rays to detect radioactivity in wine. "In the wine is the story of the atomic age," he says. Photograph: CJ Walker Courtesy of William…

Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster in cartoon form, surrounded by characters they've created for The Best Show over the past 15 years courtesy of Scharpling & Wurster Eighteen years ago, Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster called his friend Tom Scharpling, who had a radio show on New Jersey noncommercial…

The 2017 Dutch General Election Unless you’ve been living in a cave, (no offence to my readers in Afghanistan hiding from US drones), you can’t but have noticed that the 2017 Dutch general election will soon be taking place. Dutch politics, are complex, challenging, and often completely…

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By Ryan Mac, David M. Ewalt and Max Jedeur-Palmgren It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull. Three hours ago he committed to not drinking today, still in recovery from a…

F or thirty years, she was the buxom babe of baseball who famously rushed the field at major league baseball games to steal kisses from up to 50 athletes in front of thousands of spectators. The media branded her Morganna, “The Kissing Bandit,” and she quickly became a celebrity in her own right,…

The techno-anarchist wants to make it easy for everyone to manufacture his or her own gun. But will he actually pull it off? Cody Wilson is standing on red Texas dirt jamming ammunition into an M-16 magazine. It’s a cool December evening at an outdoor shooting range about 45 minutes from downtown…

Getty Images FERGUSON, Mo. — Peering outside the office window of his tire shop, John Zisser grumbles about the pile of burnt rubble that lies on the opposite corner of a busy intersection. "If you come here to my shop and you see that," he says, as gestures out the window, "is that going to give…

Keith: Okay, everyone, now that we’ve had a chance to shake off the the tinsel, glitter, and chaos that always comes at the end of a film year, let’s say goodbye to 2014 and hello to 2015. I always start the new year optimistic about what’s to come. Whatever highs and lows we’ve had in the preceding…

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Steven Soderbergh might be known for his big budget Oceans series, which has more stars in it than Andromeda, but his low-budget work truly showcases his mettle as a seriously creative director. Below is almost 40 minutes of Soderbergh and Mark Romanek talking about making his low-budget feature,…

If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disney World. Then, reserve a meal at a restaurant called Be Our Guest, using the Disney World app to…

John Hughes with the cast of The Breakfast Club: Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall. Credit: © Universal Pictures/Everett Collection. Kirk Honeycutt is the author of the forthcoming book John Hughes: A Life in Film , to be published March 25. Below is…

Goldman Sachs’s Manhattan headquarters. Allegedly the trading floor “stopped dead” to watch a CNBC debate on high-frequency trading. Photograph by Justin Bishop. When I sat down to write Flash Boys, in 2013, I didn’t intend to see just how angry I could make the richest people on Wall Street. I was…

My passionate teenage obsession with Radiohead coincided with the rise of Napster. So whereas previous generations of fanatical music fans lived and died by record stores, catalogs, and zines, I surfed the far recesses of the internet for rarities and had them delivered directly to my hard drive at…

Post-prandial bliss is especially sweet when enjoyed in the shade of a sunlit restaurant terrace in Vernazza, a picturesque village in Liguria, on Italy’s northwestern coast. But all good things must come to an end and, to signal that lunch was over, I had to perform one final parting ritual:…

W hat do David Bowie , Skrillex and Hanson have in common with Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy and Kanye West? All of them have sampled music that was spotlighted on the Ultimate Breaks & Beats series, a collection of 25 vinyl albums featuring songs with unforgettable funky rhythms. The series launched…

Will rape culture derail one of America’s most successful rock festivals? T he Vans Warped Tour has become an American institution. But like many American institutions, it has a problem. That problem is one of sexual violence. Every summer for the past 21 years, the Vans Warped Tour, universally…

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From star-studded guest lists to an audible influence on several generations of bands, Radiohead’s fan base has always included quite a few of their fellow rock stars. We polled dozens of notable musicians about their favorite Radiohead songs, and this is how they responded. Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear)…

The young woman sitting in a Parisian cafe could be meeting a friend for lunch. Her figure-hugging purple top sets off her dark hair and intelligent eyes, and her hands are heavy with rings. Every so often she glances out of the window, but she is not checking whether her friend has arrived: She is…

For the better part of the last decade, as independent label mainstays have been closing up their doors, going on hiatus, or reconfiguring their audience, Mello Music Group has secured a foundation. The Tucson, Arizona-based label has cultivated new voices, redeveloped lyrical legends, and built an…

I t’s Thursday night in January in Las Vegas, Day 2 of the Adult Video News Awards–Adult Entertainment Expo weekend, and I’m at the door of a private hotel suite in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, waiting for Best New Starlet nominee Carter Cruise to help me get past the burly security detail. Cruise…

The weeklong trial has featured pop singer Robin Thicke sidling up to a piano to play songs by U2 , the Beatles and Michael Jackson . Superstar producer Pharrell Williams attempted under oath to parse the difference between vibe and theft. Testimony in the Los Angeles federal court proceeding…

Music Industry Published on March 9th, 2015 | by Alan Cross Are You Following the “Blurred Lines” Trial? You Should Be. Here’s Why. At the LA County Courthouse, a jury will be asked to determine if Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke blatantly ripped off Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” to write the…

In the shadow of 9/11, an unconventional hip-hop sound was brewing beneath New York City A B-Boy’s Alpha Once the year 2000 arrived, fears of the Y2K bug and the end of days had quelled. We had successfully broken through to the other side of the new millennium and America felt invincible. Above the…

Published in the September 1999 issue I give you Thurman Munson in the eighth inning of a meaningless baseball game, in a half-empty stadium in a bad Yankee year during a fourteen-season Yankee drought, and Thurman Munson is running, arms pumping, busting his way from second to third like he's…

Donal “Sully” O’Sullivan unlocks the door to his gleaming black Lincoln town car, a majestic vehicle that stands out in a row of smaller, dusty economy cars. The new-car smell wafts throughout the limo, with its leather seats and complimentary water bottles for passengers. Sully climbs into the…

In between the rare maps and historical stacks, fishing out fornicators and nixing narcotics transactions are all in a day’s work for one of Portland’s finest. Illustrations by Alex Nallis M aking the rounds at the Portland Public Library means sporadically checking inside the bathroom. It’s not…