As part of the scheme, prosecutors say the men pretended to be Navy Federal Credit Union workers.
Navy Sailors Targeted on Tinder by Men Posing as Women in Bank Fraud Scheme, Feds Say
Month: September 2022
U.S. Sources Claim $7 Billion Russian-Algerian Arms Deal Signed: These Are Five Major Items it Could Include
Algeria is reportedly set to receive $7 billion worth of new Russian armaments after signing a major arms deal in 2021, with such an agreement long having been speculated. It was confirmed on September 15 in a report from the office of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio calling for American economic […]
Facebook’s anti-vax carrot emoji, explained
To avoid censorship for the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, anti-vax groups on Facebook have begun coding their messages with the carrot emoji, according to a report from the BBC. The emoji is used in place of the word “vaccine” to avoid the wrath of Facebook’s automated moderator algorithms. The BBC […]
What an ‘excited’ NASA found (and didn’t) on Mars
This week, NASA announced it was “excited” about finding something called organics on Mars. Life, as we know it, is comprised of organic things, like carbon. Your body is teeming with carbon. So how excited should you be about the organics found on Mars? We’ll let you decide. In short, […]
Extremist Girl Scouts and spaghetti appointments: The 11 funniest tweets of the week
The thing about tweets is they can be good. Usually they’re innocuous. They’re often annoying. Far too often they’re filled with hate and vitriol. But they can be good. Tweets can even be hilarious. We’ve done the hard work of parsing through the morass of Twitter’s swamp to pull out […]
Why NASA blew up a space habitat in Texas
When a future house for astronauts explodes, a celebration might seem inappropriate, but engineers at a commercial space company couldn’t be prouder of their shredded outer space house. Sierra Space, working on one of three NASA contracts to develop commercial space stations, just completed something called the “Ultimate Burst Pressure” […]
What we’ll see when NASA crashes into an asteroid on purpose
Since November 2021, a NASA spacecraft the size of a vending machine has zipped through space on a never-before-attempted journey of self destruction to ram into a harmless asteroid. Why, you ask? Target practice. Now the DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is just a week away from […]
Being bisexual can impact your mental health. Here’s what you can do about it.
“I’ve never said this to anybody,” a bisexual person who requested anonymity confessed in my Twitter DMs. “I’m so sorry if it sounds like a drama.” It didn’t sound like a drama at all — not to me, at least. This person, who reached out to me after a call-out […]
The most watched TV and movies of the week are pure fantasy
So, what’s everyone been watching this week? Hmmmm? Just to get a sense of what everyone’s streaming, we’ve used data from streaming aggregator Reelgood, which gathers viewership numbers from hundreds of streaming services in the U.S. and UK. Each week, the most streamed TV shows and movies come down to […]
Grab a keychain charger for every generation of Apple Watch for $19.99
TL;DR: As of September 17, you can get the Apple Watch Wireless Charger Keychain for just $19.99 instead of $49.95 — that’s a 59% discount. Your Apple Watch may go everywhere with you, but its charger probably doesn’t do the same. Many smartwatch chargers are awkward to carry, and you […]