A former US intelligence officer has claimed that the US is secretly operating a UFO retrieval program and possesses “intact craft of non-human origin.” The whistleblower David Charles Grusch, who is a retired member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), said that he was part of a task force … Read more
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Image: Bloomberg/Contributor The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against Coinbase, one of the largest and best-known cryptocurrency exchanges based in the US, on Tuesday. Coinbase shares slipped 20 percent in premarket trading on the news. The lawsuit alleges that Coinbase “merges three functions that are typically separated in traditional … Read more
The NEXT 50 represents a look forward, through the lens of what the past has built, to showcase the music, fashion, food, art and culture of hip-hop. Do you like Kendrick Lamar and iconic Brooklyn pizza joints? Ice Spice and alcoholic lemonade? Snail Mail and giant, globe-based water features? Good news: New York’s best music … Read more
Andrew Tate leaves court in Bucharest, Romania, in February earlier this year. Photo: Alex Nicodim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Young people from ethnic minority communities are more likely to have a positive view of Andrew Tate than white young people, new polling data shared with VICE News has suggested. The Savanta survey of 1,214 people … Read more
The FDA is warning that people are consuming poppers instead of energy drinks. Image via the FDA. Sessi Blanchard didn’t hesitate to describe what she sees as the appeal of poppers. “They’re fucking fun,” said Blanchard, a member of the Lighthouse Learning Collective, an LGBTQ-focused arm of the National Harm Reduction Coalition. But the Food … Read more
Image: SOPA Images/Contributor Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. The Department of Homeland Security contracted the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018 to design methods for assigning a “risk score” to potential pro-terrorists accounts on social media, as well as identifying information of … Read more
I love cooking with alcohol. Whether it’s pouring a quarter-bottle of shit red into a pasta sauce or mixing leftover bubbles into pancake batter (a hack that will forever change your brunch game, you’re welcome), there isn’t a single recipe I haven’t tried to booze up over the years. Subjectively, it always makes a recipe … Read more
A version of this article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. Ten years ago, I saw a corpse for the first time. A friend of mine had died unexpectedly while studying abroad. It took almost two weeks for his body to be brought back, a long wait before I could say goodbye. In the days leading … Read more
A screenshot from a video of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant posted to Twitter by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Tens of thousands of people in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine are at risk of being flooded after an enormous dam was destroyed, with Ukraine accusing Russia of deliberately blowing up the facility. The Nova Kakhovka dam on the … Read more
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: tone and expression of voice are key in making a truly, unique artist. And KVKA has that. You can see it in the intonation of his gravel-voiced rap, in OG tracks like “Who Are You,” that, since its release 8 years ago, has pushed into the … Read more