Is This 21-Year-Old Girl Madeleine McCann?: Part One

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann became “the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history.” She went missing from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents were out to dinner. 15 years later and no one knows where she is. Though her parents and family never lost hope of seeing her again. …

YouTuber’s Pet Fish Commit Credit Card Fraud on Nintendo Switch

There are few things worse than finding out someone’s swiped your credit card info. It can happen if you buy something from a shady website or use a compromised ATM, for example. But you’d never suspect your goldfish could be behind the crime. Unlikely as that seems, it happened. The residents of a Japanese YouTuber’s …

The Female Villain of “Tiger King” Vindicated in Disappearance

Remember in “Tiger King” when everyone thought that Carol Baskin was her ex-husband’s killer? Who didn’t watch Tiger King at the height of COVID, or has at least heard of it? Turns out that Carol never killed her husband at all, and this is the story. Baskin’s dead husband isn’t dead at all, yet very …

Meta’s New Chatbot Says Mark Zuckerberg is ‘Creepy’ and Claims Trump is Still President

Meta — the company previously known as Facebook — recently went live with its new chatbot. Titled BlenderBot, the robotic chatterbox can supposedly hold a conversation on “nearly any topic.” That it sure can do. And BlenderBot has some opinions. In an embarrassing twist for Meta, BlenderBot doesn’t seem to have a very high opinion …

Families Sue TikTok After Girls Die Attempting ‘Blackout Challenge’

Maybe cancel culture can help cancel these challenges, sesh. A legal resource for the relatives of children harmed by social media, the Social Victims Law Center, announced it had filed two wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of the parents. Lalani Erika, 8, and Arriana Jaileen Arroyo, 9, both from Wisconsin, took part in the deadly …

UK Movie Theaters Ban Viewers in Suits from New ‘Minions’ Movie

Minions — love them or hate them, the yellow little gremlins have become as much of a popular media mainstay as anything else. Moms of Facebook seem to adore these things, and even people who loathe them get a kick out of sharing anti-Minion memes. The latest movie featuring the yellow menaces — Minions: The …