An unnamed woman was bitten twice by a blue-ringed octopus, which contains one of the most dangerous neurotoxins on the planet, but she escaped relatively unharmed.
Rule Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that make it impossible to cancel them? That practice may become illegal and punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped. In a press release, the FTC said that its new "click to cancel" rule will require sellers to "make […]
I Heart New York New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which, we should note, featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place […]
Anecdotal accounts were already abound of people losing money to scammers cloning the voices of their relatives. Now, it's apparently become enough of a prevalent — and serious — issue that federal regulators are stepping in. On Monday, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a consumer alert on emerging voice cloning scams, warning people […]
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted an absolutely towering tornado roaring on the surface of the sun, raging with swirls of plasma to such astounding heights that even our entire planet would be consumed in its destructive throes. Astronomers at the observatory had been tracking the "solar tornado" since March 14, until it finally spun […]