In this footage, police officers in Bicester, England, are befuddled by the sound of a police siren emanating from the trees. A bird is the only suspect. A bird's impression… Read the rest of the article: Police confused by bird mimicking their siren
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Rob Beschizza Sgt. Joshua Burnett, a cop in Matthews, North Carolina, choked Aaron Butler, a handcuffed detainee, and had to be pulled off by another officer. The incident was filmed but Matthews… Read the rest of the article: A cop in Matthews, North Carolina, choked a handcuffed man and the city kept the video secret for 3 years
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Rob Beschizza A U.S. Marine was released from confinement last week and a sexual assault charge against him dropped. It emerged the 14-year-old girl he hid on barracks for days had told… Read the rest of the article: Sex assault charge dropped against marine after it turns out the 14-year-old girl he hid on base told him she was 22
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Rob Beschizza Got HPV, like 85% of of Oklahomans? Go to jail for 2 to 5 years in Oklahoma, where a bill criminalizing the "reckless" spread of sexually transmitted diseases fails to… Read the rest of the article: Oklahoma law criminalizes giving others common STDs
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Rob Beschizza For $700 and a $24 monthly subscription, a tiny wearable computer—the Humane AI Pin—will free you from your phone. Just tap it, talk to it, and it'll do what you… Read the rest of the article: "Scathing" reviews of AI Pin that's supposed to replace your cellphone
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Rob Beschizza Twitter recently imposed blue checkmarks, previously assigned only to people paying to use the site, on all users meeting a certain threshold of paid followers. And soon users assigned blue… Read the rest of the article: Twitter users will no longer be able to hide their blue checks
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Rob Beschizza Mexico's colonial-era National Palace is home to a large number of feral cats and an official declaration now provides for their feeding and care. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador… Read the rest of the article: Nineteen feral cats have free rein of Mexico's National Palace
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Rob Beschizza Four people were arrested in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California when police busted a retail theft ring and seized $300,000 worth of Lego stolen from area stores. The… Read the rest of the article: Police seize Lego with street value of $300,000
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Rob Beschizza Civil asset forfeiture allows police to take cash, vehicles and even houses from people without charging them. They get to keep the proceeds, and it's difficult to challenge in court.… Read the rest of the article: Kansas cops love confiscating cash and property. A new law forces them to declare what they take.
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Rob Beschizza The Amstrad CPC 464, an 8-bit computer popular in Europe, was released 40 years ago today. A user-friendly monitor-included setup with no bells and whistles (Amstrad was a consumer electronics… Read the rest of the article: Amstrad CPC 40 years old
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Rob Beschizza Retailers like to blame shoplifting for their business woes (even if they must eventually admit they lied) and media, desperate for stories of America drowning in crime, are generally eager… Read the rest of the article: Failing dollar stores blame shoplifters. No-one's buying it anymore.
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Rob Beschizza Allen Weisselberg, former Chief Financial Officer for the Trump Organization, is off to jail for five months after admitting he lied to protect his old boss—in court, twice. The double… Read the rest of the article: Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg gets another 5 months inside for lying on stand
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Rob Beschizza Botox is the same neurotoxin than causes botulism, prepared carefully to make it safe to inject into people's faces. But what if we saved a buck or two and just… Read the rest of the article: Back alley Botox a bad idea, officials warn
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Rob Beschizza Francesca Gino, a Harvard professor already alleged to have used fabricated data in her ethics research, is also now accused of plagiarism. Passages from a paper and two books by… Read the rest of the article: Ethics expert Francesca Gino, already under fire over fabricated data, accused of plagiarism
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Rob Beschizza If graphical demos generated by extremely short snippets of code tend to be correspondingly brief, Remnants by Alcatraz is startlingly extensive. I just can't believe this somehow emerges from 256… Read the rest of the article: 256 bytes of code generate this spooky fractal city
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Rob Beschizza President Biden said today he was "considering" ending the prosecution of Julian Assange following a request by the Australian government. Biden's exact words were "we're considering it" when asked about… Read the rest of the article: U.S. may drop Assange prosecution
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Rob Beschizza Opaque, confusing, and deceptive: getting service providers to honestly describe their broadband internet "plans" is such a lost cause that the Federal Communications Commission is imposing "nutrition labels" on them… Read the rest of the article: Broadband plans to get "nutrition labels"
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Rob Beschizza The diary of Ashley Biden, daughter of president Joe Biden, was stolen and sold to right-wing activists. The thief is off to jail for a month after pleading guilty to… Read the rest of the article: One month in jail for woman who stole Biden daughter's diary and sold it to chuds
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Rob Beschizza Boeing's 777 and 787 Dreamliner are under new scrutiny after a whistleblower claimed that there are undisclosed flaws in their manufacturing that "could become catastrophic as the airplanes age." Sam… Read the rest of the article: FAA investigating Boeing jets after engineer claims they are flawed
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Rob Beschizza Earbuds always struck me as the most throwaway gadget and I never liked buying them knowing they were doomed to the trashcan. Fairphone, the Dutch cellphone company, is making wireless,… Read the rest of the article: Fairbuds: wireless, repairable earbuds with replaceable batteries