More than half of all Robinhood users own at least some GameStop stock.
They are now unable to freely trade it; the app is only allowing users to close out their positions.
NEW: We've obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a Nebraska teenager’s private chats about her abortion, then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.
Stanford scientists saved drops of the COVID-19 vaccine destined for the garbage can, reverse engineered them, and have posted the mRNA sequence that powers the vaccine on GitHub for all to see.
NEW: Around 500 mail sorting machines across the US will be taken out of service, according to documents obtained by Motherboard.
This accounts for about 15 percent of all USPS letter sorting machines.
Students across the country are taking matters into their own hands: organizing strikes, participating in city-wide walk-outs, and laying out detailed proposals for how their well-being could be prioritized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEW: USPS emails obtained by Motherboard instruct post office maintenance managers to not reconnect or reinstall any mail sorting machines they had already disconnected.
Hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites.
This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a now defunct video hosting service.
Workers at one Amazon warehouse were previously offered several different shift options.
Now that it's closing, they're only being offered one at a new facility from 1:20am to 11:50am, called the "megacycle."
Brian Kibler announced he’s cutting ties with Activision Blizzard over the company's decision to suspend a pro player for his support of protests in Hong Kong.
According to local union officials, USPS hasn't announced any policy, explained why they're doing this, nor what will happen to the machines and the workers who operate them.
RRR is basically an ideal summer movie, combining the story of an unlikely friendship with mind-boggling action and stunts, as well as being a three-hour-long musical.
Someone crashed a virtual event from the Italian senate on Monday, and streamed 3D porn featuring Final Fantasy characters in front of several politicians, academics, and one Nobel Prize winner.
NEW: An Amazon Web Services employee emailed a series of internal Amazon listservs and told them that their communications were being monitored for labor organizing efforts.
The USPS initially proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines before revising its plans weeks later, reducing the number to closer to 15 percent.
NEW: The City of Uvalde and its police department are working with a private law firm to prevent the release of nearly any record related to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, according to a letter obtained by Motherboard.
This is funny, unfortunate, and also, an example of a much larger problem: The internet is a collective hallucination that is fading away thanks to link rot.
Some people need a little extra time to put their masks away as they stroll around the park—and they should take it given the traumatizing year we've had.
A 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors after an apparent at-home abortion in Nebraska.
The state's case against the pair relies on evidence obtained directly from Facebook via court order.
Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple’s top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It’s also one of few apps that has said it will voluntarily—without being legally required to—comply with law enforcement if it’s asked to share user data.
No charges have been brought against former Eugene police officer Christopher Drumm—but St. James is now facing charges of her own after protesting her assault.
As detailed in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, a survey of 1,212 U.S. patients taking prescribed CBD found that people taking oral doses of CBD returned positive COVID tests at much lower rates than control groups who did not take CBD.
Chris Cantelmo had been the leader of a Reddit pseudo-cult known as Cantelmoism. He was famous for handing out free money and claiming DMT, a drug he wanted to turn the world on to, cured his cancer.
But within two years of first trying DMT, he was dead.
This week, thousands of students in NYC walked out of class to protest conditions and demand temporarily shutting down schools.
Students in Boston and Chicago are planning walkouts for this Friday.
While the docs allege that the abortion took place before Roe v Wade was overturned. they show in shocking detail how abortion could and will be prosecuted in the US, and how tech companies will be enlisted by law enforcement to help prosecute their cases.
In Oakland, CA, over 1,000 students signed a districtwide petition threatening to boycott classes entirely until the school district meets its demands—which include KN95 masks, increased testing, and more outdoor space for students to safely eat lunch.
A letter sent to Motherboard in response to public information requests says that Uvalde and its police don't want records released because they could include “highly embarrassing information.”
It did not explain why the records would be embarrassing.
Facebook handed over the teenager's private messages that show that she and her mother allegedly bought medication to induce abortion online, and then disposed of the fetus.
Writer Jules Gleeson told Motherboard that Judith Butler has also emailed the Guardian about its decision to remove that section of the interview, but has not heard back.
Voice actors are increasingly being asked to sign rights to their voices away so clients can use artificial intelligence to generate synthetic versions that could eventually replace them.
About a month ago, Lauren Albanese went to the mall with her uncle and dad.
It was the first time since the pandemic began that the 27-year-old from Staten Island had been around people outside her household, and it had her shaken.