VICE: Some Rich Guy Paid $84,000 for Webcam Shows He Never Watched http://t.co/A3ebXX1WRs http://t.co/6CuI5lSZVn

A few weeks ago, Twitter shares plummeted and wiped out more than $4 billion in market value, as insiders and early investors started to sell the company’s stock after the six-month “lock-up” period expired. On June 5, Twitter VP Luca Baratta sold over 1,000 shares . Cashing out by the people who…

Perhaps that’s why I disbelieved my 23andMe report. My genome is not, in fact, me. It’s only part of me. Try as it might, 23andMe doesn’t know so many things about me—some of which I don’t know myself. What was my mother’s diet when she was pregnant with me? How was her mood? How did my stint on the…

Walking briskly, Ivan Kuznetsov leads Kirill Vselensky and Vasilisa Denisova out into the courtyard of a 30-story building in Moscow’s business district. He turns and perches alertly on his heels, anxiously looking for a security guard like a bird watches for a garden cat. There are none, as far as…

POO MILLARD: the highlights from 50 cent’s ama are freakin’ sick http://t.co/LerXbPbABV

Pinball godfather Roger Sharpe plays Paragon while Dan Cashetto repairs Kings of Steel. Nathan Kirkman In the resurgent world of competitive pinball, brothers Josh and Zach Sharpe are among the elite. Which makes it surprising that neither made the finals in today’s Illinois State Pinball…

In February 2014, animator and director Rob Minkoff talked to Den Of Geek about his new film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman . Asked what kind of career options led to him switching back and forth between live-action and animation, he mentioned that he’d been tapped to direct the animation for Who Framed…

Since we launched The Dissolve last July, one of the most persistent challenges we’ve faced is how to deal with Video On Demand—what to cover, when to cover, and how to cover it. This has meant sorting through the thicket of semi-major indies and marginalia, and a catch-as-catch-can assortment of…

In the phantasmagorial sci-fi epic "Edge of Tomorrow," Tom Cruise finds himself encased in an 85-pound metal exoskeleton bristling with futuristic weaponry and confronted with a singularly intractable situation: a kill- and -be-killed conflict that repeats on indefinite loop. Over and over he wages…

Clive Thompson: "The Spiny Shell is the most profoundly existentialist element of the Mario canon." @ibogost on Nintendo's shell game http://t.co/Ojr1M4QA86

There has long been a beautiful cultural exchange between America and Japan. They captivated us with their ninjas and their karate, we let them use our rockabilly. We loaned them Steven Seagal, they sent him back polished into an aikido master. A few samurai movies have been famously remade as…

Grantland: At Long Last, Detroit Gets Its RoboCop Statue, by @ZachDionne http://t.co/IdqZDcdmJu

What do you get when you create an entire series of high-concept, miniature sets populated by puppets, then film their continuous action before a live audience as a DJ and a piano player score the whole shebang as its projected in real time? The answer isn’t the Muppets Do Ibsen, it’s Nufonia Must…

Clive Thompson: Video games are time machines -- letting you revisit life over and over until you get through. Nice endpoint here: http://t.co/MgiqEHSNwN

Oh, Game of Thrones . Could it be we've gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say, rapes . As I wrote for Bent : How innocent it looks now, the controversial Jaime-Cersei scene, with its single demure assault of a grieving woman by her brother beside the poisoned corpse of their…

When Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson launched his “How Hip-Hop Failed Black America” series for Vulture last month, I reacted the way I do to each new Roots album. At first I was really excited, eagerly lapping up the first entry and reveling in Thompson’s insight and forward-thinking ideology.…

Billy Bragg, one of the artists involved in the dispute. Image: Flickr/The Queen's Hall Indie music artists and labels are taking a stand against YouTube’s apparent plans for an upcoming music streaming service—or more specifically, the terms YouTube has laid out if independent artists want to be…

Image: University of Michigan's Mobility Transformation Center The heart of America's beleaguered auto industry will soon be home a 32-acre, multimillion-dollar high-tech transportation experiment. The University of Michigan, along with the local government and major automakers, is building a model…

B efore Jack White envisioned the world in red and white, he saw Lime. Harry Lime, that is, the character played by Orson Welles in the classic 1949 noir The Third Man. A Welles fanatic, White quoted dialogue from Citizen Kane on the White Stripes’ 2001 commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells.…

Grantland: Debunking the Myth of the First-Pitch Strike, by @LemireJoe http://t.co/POJDpmOZEI

While you’ve probably heard it described in simple ways, Spike Jonze ’s “ Her ” is much, much more than the iPhone movie about falling love with Siri. And it’s hardly a film about technology and our future—though that obviously is an element. In many ways, “Her” is a traditional love story and…

Matthew Handrahan Editor-in-Chief Thursday 29th May 2014 Share this article Recommend Companies in this article The Astronauts People Can Fly's Bulletstorm was one of the great 'What If?'s of the last console generation: a brash, knowing, and consistently inventive shooter, full of personality and…

david carr: Amazon's love affair w?consumer getting a makeover. http://t.co/IMqaMjNMCs My bit on why tight-lipped response isn't helping.

It’s not the most well-traveled piece of “what could have been” pop culture lore, but in the mid 1990s, soon after their collective success with the now iconic and indelible , filmmaker Spike Jonze and the seminal hip-hop trio Beastie Boys , headed to Los Angeles to write a movie. The film of…

Grantland: 'Ill Communication' at 20: An Everything Guide to the Beastie Boys Masterpiece, by @AmosBarshad http://t.co/SFS4Jxgx6o

In the forthcoming Christmas-music documentary Jingle Bell Rocks , Flaming Lips frontman/professional eccentric Wayne Coyne discusses how during his childhood, his mother used to talk about this really weird Christmas movie set in outer space. The preposterous-sounding film obsessed Coyne as a boy…

I’m not denying the cacophonous buzz of awards season, but for me, May is the peak of the yearly cinematic hype cycle. For more than a week in the middle of the month, the Cannes film festival produces a masterpiece a day (or another movie that gets loudly booed), while back in Hollywood, the…

Unlike having fewer kids, birthing them in the Northern Hemisphere during October of a year when not many others are having kids, avoiding the mercury in fish (while still getting enough omega-3 and omega-9 fatty acids), and being rich, well-educated, and handsome to boot, there is one thing you can…

J ust after sunrise on the morning of August 9, 2012, in the Houston suburb of Katy, Scott Catt, a fifty-year-old structural engineer, was awakened by the buzzing of his alarm clock in the master bedroom of the apartment he shared with his twenty-year-old son, Hayden, and his eighteen-year-old…

Robert Capa. By David Scherman/From the International Center of Photography. The orders came to Life war photographer Robert Capa in London from the United States Army in the last days of May of 1944: You are not to leave your flat for more than an hour at a time. Your equipment must be packed. Capa…

Grantland: The $2 Billion Bubble? What the Clippers Sale Means for the NBA and the Players, by @ZachLowe_NBA http://t.co/4fi1TVnlWE

E verybody’s talking about Amazon right now. And for once, they’re not talking about Amazon with the respectful awe that typically accompanies Amazon chatter. (“They’re totally creepy, and I love my local bookstore, but I got five pounds of basil, a Doctor Who shower curtain, and six gift-wrapped…

Nerdy guys aren’t guaranteed to get laid by the hot chick as long as we work hard. There isn’t a team of writers or a studio audience pulling for us to triumph by getting the girl. (Read the sequel: Who Died and Made You Khaleesi? ) Youtube I was going to write about The Big Bang Theory —why, as a…

Growing up, illustrator Elizabeth Simins didn’t know any other girls playing video games. In her online comic piece Manic Pixel Dream Girl , she recalls struggling to fit in and feeling distanced from other women because of how many hours she sank into role-playing games. Being one of the few female…

This is the sixth in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop's recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Read the first one here , the second one here , the third one here , the fourth one here , and the fifth one here . It's time for the…

Roger Ver, the man known as "The Bitcoin Jesus." Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED When the man known as “The Bitcoin Jesus” got hacked, he didn’t go straight to the police. He just tapped the power of bitcoin. Last week, Roger Ver–an American-born ex-pat living in Japan who’s long been at the heart of…

For years now, the man who wrote Get Rich or Die Tryin' has been getting very rich indeed—off record sales, energy drinks, self-help books, ercise routines, headphones, you name it. His newest product? A comeback record, Animal Ambition . You see, 50 Cent is healthier than you and wealthier than…

david carr: Detroit Urged to Tear Down 40,000 Buildings http://t.co/rlqrJ5yxCO Remaking the city begins with unmaking some of what is now there.

The pretty ponytailed blond plucked me out of travel purgatory and offered me a place to crash during my one-night layover in Rome. Milena smiled in her photo, as if caught mid-laugh, raising her wine glass in a toast. I found her on Couchsurfing.org , an Internet community recommended by a friend…