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STOLEN: iPad Prototype, Prescription Drugs, $7500 Cash—Oh, Also a Man

Ashley Feinberg · 04/30/15 03:03PM

“Some heartless monster stole an iPad prototype from an Apple developer’s home in Cupertino,” begins nearly every article written about the incident. It’s still at large! They took drugs and money! Did we mention the iPad? Oh—and a man was also kidnapped. But please do let us know if you hear anything about that iPad.

Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley

Ken Layne · 02/28/14 05:19PM

Walking is the only pleasant form of traveling by land. You need no special equipment, training, money, e-tickets, antidepressants, or Twitter followers. Whatever clothes you're wearing will do fine; a hat and shoes are optional. When I've got a few days to spend somewhere, I spend them walking around. So I spent a few days walking around Silicon Valley.

Fake Apple Store Employee Pranks Shoppers, Apologizes for Polio

Taylor Berman · 01/31/14 01:55PM

Last week, comedian Tyler Fischer posed as an Apple employee and pranked unsuspecting shoppers at four Apple Stores in New York City. Among other things, he tells people that—because Apple engineers invented several incurable diseases—syphilitic shoppers and those in the "polio community" can get up 75% off select products.

How Apple Helps Fund a Bloody Colombian Rebel Army

Hamilton Nolan · 08/08/13 11:22AM

Tungsten is a mineral used in manufacturing everything from auto parts to pens to cell phones and computers. Some of the tungsten purchased by some of the world's most well-known companies is illegally mined and used to enrich FARC, a Colombian rebel army.