If you were to visit Jeanne Pouchain, she would probably treat you with all due hospitality. The 58-year-old, from the town of Saint-Joseph near Lyon in central France, might show you her extremely fluffy cat and serve you tea, a glass of wine, or whatever the French traditionally serve their guests. But above all, you …
Being the victim of blackmail is a harrowing experience. Having to pay someone to keep your secrets secret can not only drain you financially, but also have a significant negative mental impact. But toward the end of last year, one hacker took the concept of blackmail to a whole new level. They really had their …
Have you ever heard that saying about how gamblers will bet on anything? There’s a major sports book taking bets on aerial drone races and they think gamblers will be lining up. On Friday DraftKings said it was taking bets for the weekend’s championship of the Drone Racing League. Pilots flew aerial drones in the …
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Scroll through your For You Page on TikTok, and a weird theme appears of people monetizing just about anything–muscular guys chopping wood, hippies repotting plants, Millennials lipsynching. Something about people in their cluttered bedrooms, making a living without succumbing to a soul-draining retail job, is charming. But it’s also concerning that this is all the …
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It’s never a laughing matter when a school gets evacuated. That means lives are in danger, and not just any lives – the lives of children. But out of all the reasons for a school to trigger evacuation procedures, we’re ready to bet nobody saw this one coming. The Haddon Township High School – in …
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I don’t know how it is living in Australia. From the other side of the globe, it seems like a continent where you can’t mess around. The sum of my knowledge regarding Australian life comprises seeing Crocodile Dundee in my childhood, pictures on Reddit of giant insects, and the season of wildfires that almost wiped …
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As anyone who’s ever gotten punched will testify, it’s not fun. Getting served a heaping serving of knuckle sandwich just plain hurts. But imagine if you got pummeled by an assailant with eight arms. It sounds like a nightmare, but now you know what certain tropical fish have to live with. New research has found …
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There have been a lot of weird characters in kids’ cartoons over the years. We have a sponge living in an undersea pineapple, that yellow shapeshifting dog thing from Adventure time, basically everything from Courage the Cowardly Dog… The list goes on. But now they’re joined by someone who’s unlike pretty much anything we’ve seen …
Bad boys, bad boys, what’cha gonna do when they come for you? Law enforcement exists for one reason – to solve crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. That’s how it should be, but unfortunately it’s not always the case. Some crooks are so devious, their plans so meticulously crafted, that the cops are never …
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What is it with all the aliens lately? Towards the end of last year, we brought you the story of the strange monoliths that keep appearing and disappearing around the world. Not only that, we covered an Israeli defense chief’s claim that aliens exist but they’re just media shy. In one of these stories, we …
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