Category: Scary
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Mastercard launches tech that lets you pay with your face
The company on Tuesday launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At checkout, users will be able to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card. MORE
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Russia is resorting to putting computer chips from refrigerators and dishwashers in tanks due to U.S. sanctions
“We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it’s filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators,” commerce secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday. MORE
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More than 100 people who went to the same high school now have brain tumors
“When I started looking into it, I quickly amassed 15 of our classmates with these rare brain tumors. I went on Facebook on March 7, and I asked for the people on Facebook to help me find others. And today we now stand at 117 individuals with primary brain tumors, and another 70 with very […]
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Woman allegedly bursts into men’s room and repeatedly stabs a man in the buttocks while he uses a urinal
According to the Toledo Police Department report, Shahnaz Ali is accused of entering a restroom and stabbing a man with a knife or other sharp object in the buttocks while he was using a urinal at Leroy and Margaret’s Suds and Grub. MORE
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Strange rumbling noises in California house turns out to be 5 bears hibernating in crawl space
“It was a home where people lived and they thought they heard some odd rumbling, snoring-like noises but ignored it because it simply didn’t make sense…and the neighbors said they were imagining it because they didn’t hear anything.” MORE
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FDA investigating Lucky Charms amid reports of illness
Hundreds of people have complained of nausea, diarrhea and vomiting after eating the cereal on the iwaspoisoned.com food safety website. Reports have been made from across the country, with consumers from Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina Tennessee and Texas complaining of illness. MORE
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Grenade found among the spuds on chip factory conveyor belt
The old Mills bomb grenade, which has since been confirmed as being a training grenade which didn’t contain explosives, is believed to have been dug up during harvesting on a farm in Matamata. Mr Chips factory operations manager Roland Spitaels said the mud covered device was spotted on a conveyor belt full of freshly harvested […]
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Rocket launchers found in trash near California middle school
On Wednesday, Perris Station deputies responded to the 32200 block of Leon Road, Winchester, regarding a military ordnance found in a trash dumpster, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department told NPR. The location was less than a mile from Liberty High School. MORE
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Solid chocolate bunny used as weapon on store clerk
Officers were called Thursday afternoon after a man stole merchandise at a business on Victoria Avenue, near 34th Street, in the southwestern Manitoba city, a Friday news release from the Brandon Police Service said. An employee who confronted the shoplifter was hit with a Mr. Solid brand chocolate bunny, police say. MORE