Amazon’s announcement of an ‘Alexa with wheels’ household robot has been met with a wave of ridicule and questions about the privacy concerns this technology presents. The Astro is Amazon’s first household robot and it can be remote-controlled by its owner when they are not at home to perform tasks or check on a pet
Shamaya Lynn was at her Altamonte Springs apartment on a Zoom call with a group of co-workers when she suddenly fell back away from the computer, according to 911 calls released Friday by the police department. The confused and frightened co-worker called 911 not knowing where Lynn lived or how old she was. “I don’t
Cone Heads A viral Facebook post is claiming that strange-looking skulls found in Peru are evidence of alien life, USA Today reports. But fortunately — or disappointingly, depending on your frame of reference — the skulls are almost certainly from plain-old human beings. “The eye sockets are normal and perfectly within the range of human
At first, archaeologists thought they were scanning the mummy of an ancient Egyptian priest named Hor-Djehuty. Then, in the body’s abdomen, images revealed what appeared to be the bones of a tiny foot. Full scans confirmed it: the foot belonged to a tiny fetus, still in the womb of its deceased and mummified mother. Not
Amy Edmondson, 30, from Southend-on-Sea, U.K., was walking home with her dog, Star, last week at around 11:30 p.m. when a couple came up to her asking for directions. When she turned around to show them where to go, the man attacked her. The man reportedly jumped on her back, pushed her to the ground
TikTok users have been left baffled after footage showing a weird-looking animal was shared online. The unusual-looking little dude was spotted scurrying around the street by TikTok user @airwave, who asked his followers: “What the f**g is this?” Indeed. The clip shows a black rodent-like animal with some white markings on its face – its
A North Carolina man got the surprise of his life after he was arrested and charged with animal cruelty and abandonment after leaving his pet fish in filthy conditions. Yup, this man was seriously arrested for leaving his fish behind. I have seen it all, ladies and gents. The fish’s owner, Michael Hinson, was evicted
An active volcano is turning up the heat in Iceland, so much so that it prompted a local tour guide to do an impromptu striptease next to the flowing lava! Pictures Ecoadventure tour guide Sveinn Snorri Sighvatsson have gone viral for bearing it all during a visit to Geldingadalur in Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula. Sveinn’s unusual
Embracing my fiancée Soledad one last time, I turned and made my way through passport control. Looking back as I walked towards the plane I could see her waving at me from the airport balcony. I was going to miss her, but I was excited about my four-day trip to Santiago in Chile, where some
An entire lineage of French rabbits has been doing handstands for nearly a century. The acrobatic bunnies are not so much performing a stunt as they are a product of stunted genetics, according to a paper published this week in PLOS Genetics. First discovered in a domesticated rabbit living in a Parisian suburb in 1935, the recessive trait is
