Halloween: 7 rumors to get in the spooky spirit
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GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
General Motors marketed its Smart Driver system as a way for parents to monitor teen drivers or for adults to track their driving behavior. But
Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
Binance has suspended all withdrawals after the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange fell victim to what appears to be the biggest heist in history. The exchange
US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up ‘confused and in pain’ after failed execution
It is Pike’s first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.
Alaska Senate candidate denies knowing about alleged plot to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot
Dan S Sullivan, the incumbent Republican senator running for re-election, and allies have accused the Democrats of trying to confuse voters by recruiting Dan J
Spain transport minister says he won’t resign over high-speed rail disaster
Óscar Puente has been facing calls to resign after two high-speed trains collided earlier in the week, killing at least 69 people.
Swedish academic says he has been barred from UK over event with Palestine Action founder
Andreas Malm was due to appear on a panel alongside a co-founder of the proscribed group next week.
Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year
A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths
‘Awkward’: Trump’s personal attorneys caught attacking judge who died one day earlier
President Tweety McTreason’s personal lawyers filed a federal appeals brief on Thursday that tears into the rulings of U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Hellerstein died
A mysterious star system just 16 light-years away may be hiding habitable planets
Astronomers have solved a 170-year-old planetary mystery in a nearby two-star system, discovering that a mysterious wobble was caused by stellar activity rather than a
Trump hater reveals what happened after he pranked Fox News with viral ‘cult’ slam
A North Carolina man whose Jonestown jab at a Tweety McTreason rally went viral says the Secret Service escorted him out minutes after his Fox
Scientists discover mysterious seahorse lookalikes that no one has ever seen alive
Scientists have discovered that three bizarre deep-sea fish that look exactly like seahorses actually belong to a separate evolutionary group, proving that nature created the
Don’t trust AI to keep your secrets
We talk to chatbots as if those conversations are private. But are they? Most people are confused. A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo and published in