VICEflipped into All StoriesElectricity Police Sorry They Brought 'Taser Shields' to Peaceful Protest VICE - Todd FeathersPolice in Memphis, Tennessee say that bringing the electric shields, capable of delivering 320 volts of electricity, to a protest was a "regrettable mistake." On Thursday, a small group of people protesting...
VICEflipped into All StoriesSuper Mario People Are Speedrunning 'Super Mario 64' on the PlayStation 2 VICE - Patrick KlepekDoes a speedrun really count if the speedrun is for a video game that doesn't technically exist? The rules of speedrunning, where players do their best to bend and break video games while finishing them...
VICEflipped into MotherboardMetabolism A Modest Proposal: We Should Hibernate Through the Rest of the Pandemic VICE - Doug JohnsonWe are about to face a very bleak winter due to COVID-19. If we could induce torpor in humans, we could sleep through the whole thing. Humanity got a taste of what a winter with COVID-19 would be like...
VICEflipped into MotherboardARPANET FTP Is Almost 50 Years Old—and It’s Ready to Retire VICE - Ernie SmithThe beating heart of the early internet may have been FTP, or file transfer protocol. But after 50 years of mainstream use, its demise may be imminent. A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium,...
VICEflipped into Donald TrumpU.S. Politics Mail-In Ballots Are Already a Mess in New York VICE - David GilbertSome voters received return envelopes with someone else's name and address on them. Some of the half a million New York voters who requested mail-in ballots began receiving them on Monday, but immediately...
VICEflipped into All StoriesRomania A Mayor Who Died of COVID-19 Just Won Re-Election by a Landslide in Romania VICE - Răzvan FilipThe late Ion Aliman won with 64 percent of the vote. On Sunday, over a thousand people from Deveselu, a village of around 3,000 people in southern Romania, went to the polls and re-elected their mayor,...
