I was somewhat surprised to learn that courts use software to predict the likelihood of criminals reoffending. But I was far less surprised to learn that the computer, much like the system it serves, seems to hate black people. ProPublica has a new report that shines a light on the system used by Broward County, Florida. Those …
In a bit of offbeat news that seems like it could have fit right in as a humorous plot point on Breaking Bad, police in Alliance, Ohio recently confiscated a drug dealer’s phone and are now being bombarded by texts and phone calls from customers looking to pick up some product. In fact, the sheer …
Earth is an extraordinarily large, expansive, and diverse planet, and over the last few months we’ve highlighted many of the more interesting and intriguing places that exist within it, from a list of the cheapest cities where one can live comfortably to an engaging list of the coolest and most visually stunning international borders between countries. …
Not too long ago, Eddie Tipton was convicted of hacking into the Multi-State Lottery Association’s computer system in order to rig a nearly $17 million jackpot in Iowa. Now comes word that an investigation into Tipton’s hacking activities is expanding to include a number of other states. Thus far, lottery officials from Colorado, Wisconsin and Oklahoma …
You can’t use it on Windows 10 or Microsoft’s phones yet – and it might never be a commercial product – but the company is apparently working on software that would be able to predict the future accurately. The new app would be able to do more than guess at who will win the next football …
There’s a smooth criminal lurking – no, gliding – around the streets of London. In a bizarre, and yet entertaining, video posted by the Metropolitan Police Service earlier today, we see an individual gliding into a co-op on a hoverboard, grabbing a crate of energy drinks, and then casually gliding out of the store.
The world of livestreaming has provided us with no shortage of entertainment in recent weeks. Hot on the heels of a poor fellow in Japan who inadvertently streamed footage of himself burning down his house comes a new video depicting a man not only being arrested, but robbed. The video below comes courtesy of a …
A man in Florida was recently arrested in a sting operation after he accidentally entered a wrong number into his phone and inadvertently texted the last person in the world he thought might be on the other end of the line — a captain from the Martin County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit.
The iPhone is great for playing games, taking photos, and messaging with friends, but who knew that it was also capable of stopping speeding bullets? This past week, a Fresno State graduate student’s life was potentially saved when an iPhone he was carrying in his pocket helped deflect a bullet fired at him during the course of an …
The manhunt for the man who killed two Virginia WDBJ7 employees on the air earlier this morning has come to an end. Police are now saying that Vester Lee Flanagan, formerly a news reporter at the above station, turned the gun on himself as the authorities were closing in on his location. Despite some conflicting …
