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Saturday, 13 January 2024 04:40

Man digs 40-meter deep hole in his kitchen after dreaming he struck gold

A Brazilian man tragically lost his life by plunging down a deep shaft he had dug in his kitchen after dreaming that there was gold buried deep under his house. 71-year-old João Pimenta da Silva’s dream of enrichment ended as a nightmare that claimed his life. His lifeless body was found at the bottom of an exceptionally deep well he and his neighbors had dug under his kitchen in Ipatinga, a municipality in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. The man had reportedly dreamt that there was gold deep under his home, and that all he had to do was dig to…

Sunday, 07 January 2024 04:28

‘Miracle’ mom wakes from 5-year coma

“When she actually found out our ages and things like that, it broke her heart,” Jennifer Flewellen’s son Julian, now 17, tells PEOPLE It's a miracle — and it all started with a joke. As Jennifer Flewellen, of Niles, Michigan, lay motionless in a hospital bed last year, stuck in a nearly five-year coma caused by a car crash, her mother Peggy Means told her a joke. Then the impossible happened: Flewellen, 41, laughed. "When she woke up, it scared me at first because she was laughing and she had never done that," Means tells PEOPLE. "Every dream came true.…

Saturday, 23 December 2023 04:33

Scientists create AI system that can predict when you die with startling accuracy

An artificial intelligence model developed by an international team of researchers has demonstrated the ability to predict future events in people’s lives, including the time of their death. Life2vec, a so-called transformer model trained on a massive volume of data to predict various aspects of a person’s life, was created by scientists in Denmark and the United States. After being fed data from Danish health and demographic records for six million people, like time of birth, schooling, education, salary, housing, and health, the AI model was trained to predict what would come next. According to its creators, Life2vec demonstrated an…

Monday, 18 December 2023 04:42

Turkey’s Central Bank governor can’t afford house rent, moves into parents’ home

Hafize Erkan, Turkey’s central bank governor, says she has been forced to move in with her parents due to the country’s inflation. Speaking to Turkey’s Hürriyet, Erkan said her decision was hinged on the increase in rents due to the lack of social housing — of which the country’s rising inflation is a contributory factor. Erkan, who took up her post in June after two decades in the United States, said when there is a lack of supply and cheap financing, “balances can sometimes be disrupted”. “Here, the most important problem for us is the supply of social housing. There…

Sunday, 17 December 2023 04:36

Teacher jailed indefinitely for refusing to 'call a boy a girl'

It's the trans rights row that has gripped Ireland for well over a year – putting an otherwise unremarkable history teacher at the heart of the country's culture wars for his refusal to use a trans pupil's pronouns. Enoch Burke – who taught History and German – refused to refer to a transitioning transgender student as 'they' rather than 'he' in May last year. It sparked a chain of events that has led to him being jailed for repeatedly showing up at Wilson's Hospital School in County Westmeath after being sacked, and entering the staff room saying he was there…

Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:42

Scientist spends 10 months in jail after AI system wrongly identifies him as murderer

Russian hydrologist Alexander Tsvetkov was detained in February 2023, after an AI system determined that his face was a 55% match to the sketch of a murderer drawn 20 years ago by a witness. Alexander Tsvetkov, a scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Inland Water Biology, has been living a nightmare for the past 10 months. He was removed from an airplane in February, following a work trip to Krasnoyarsk, and informed that he had been identified as the author of a series of murders over 20 years ago. Investigators claimed that he and his alleged accomplice…

Saturday, 09 December 2023 04:42

Thieves return stolen Android because it's not an iPhone

Google scored a lukewarm victory against Apple a few weeks ago when the latter announced iMessage will soon support RCS messaging. However, iMessages will remain blue and encrypted, while RCS messages will stay green and unencrypted. Apple will only support the RCS standard the GSMA developed, not the proprietary RCS product that Google operates. I said time and again that Google has bigger problems than the iMessage bubble war it’s fighting in an effort to make Android as appealing as the iPhone. Getting Apple to support RCS will not stop the iPhone from being the more coveted product. There’s no…

Saturday, 02 December 2023 04:57

Man suffering from headaches for 5 months discovers chopsticks stuck in his skull

A Vietnamese man who had been suffering from severe headaches and even loss of vision over the last five months recently learned that he had a pair of chopsticks stuck in his skull. The unnamed man was recently admitted to the Cuba Friendship Hospital in the city of Dong Hoi, Vietnam’s Quang Binh province, after complaining of constant headaches, vision loss, and fluid discharge from his nose. When asked, the man revealed no possible cause for these symptoms, but a CT scan showed a tension pneumocephalus, the intracranial equivalent of a pneumothorax, as well as two foreign objects protruding from…

Monday, 27 November 2023 04:44

Local airline tells passengers ‘welcome to Abuja’ after plane mistakenly landed in Asaba

A United Nigeria Airlines flight destined for Abuja on Saturday landed in Asaba, the capital of Delta state. Passengers said they only realised the mistake after the cabin crew announced “Welcome to Abuja” when they landed in Asaba. “We departed Lagos about an hour ago on Fly United to Abuja and upon arrival, the cabin crew confidently announced that we had arrived Abuja only for us to realise that we landed in Asaba,” Salihu Yakasai, the Kano governorship candidate of Peoples’ Redemption Party in the 2023 election, wrote on X. After about half an hour on the tarmac, the plane…

Saturday, 25 November 2023 04:52

Are you mad at ‘soaring cost of living, disputed presidential election, widespread insecurity’ - anything? Lagos offers a place where you can get ‘cathartic release for pent-up anger’

Nigerians seeking a safe outlet for their anger can now get an unusual form of therapy, a "rage room" where they can break glass, smash wardrobes, and destroy electronic devices without any consequences. Located in the crowded megacity of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, the Shadow Rage Room offers 20-minute sessions for N7,500 ($8.93). Banjoko Babajide James, a co-founder, said the idea for the rage room came from the rising mental health crisis in Nigeria which is "a taboo topic" to discuss openly. "We want to create a community of like minds, to make people to understand that this thing is…

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Thursday, 23 November 2023 05:06

‘There's no way that can be true.’ And yet it is: People share real incidents that sound like conspiracy theories

Sometimes you hear a fact that makes you think, "There's no way that can be true." And yet — it is. Redditor u/BlackAfghaniRose recently asked the people of Reddit, "What’s a fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory?" Yes, sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction: 1. "JFK's brain was removed during the autopsy and stored in an archive. Its current whereabouts are unknown." —u/AdMaterial9419 2. "The Church of Scientology had members secretly infiltrate US government agencies in order to destroy unfavorable documents and investigations into them." —u/TripleThreatTua 3. "Ernest Hemingway suffered from ongoing paranoia that the FBI were surveilling…

Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:59

Obese convicted murderer released from prison because he can’t diet behind bars

An Italian man who was serving 30 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend was recently released from prison because judges ruled that prison food didn’t allow him to go on a diet behind bars. In 2017, Dimitri Fricano was arrested for killing his girlfriend, Erika, during a heated argument, while they were vacationing in Sardinia. He originally told police that robbers had attacked and killed his partner, but as investigators found more and more holes in his story, he eventually admitted that he had been the one to stab her 57 times. Apparently, she had scolded him for leaving…

Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:41

Factory worker crushed to death when robot fails to differentiate between human and a box of vegetables

The man was working through the night to inspect machine in South Korea He was apparently pushed against a conveyer belt and crushed by the robot A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from a box of vegetables. The victim, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the machine's sensor at a distribution centre for agricultural produce in South Gyeongsang in the early hours of Wednesday. The machine, which was lifting boxes of peppers onto a pallet, grabbed the man with its arm and pushed him against…

Saturday, 04 November 2023 04:48

Woman arrested for selling book on how to dupe sugar daddies

Mai Watanabe, a young self-proclaimed dating scammer, was arrested for selling how-to guides on defrauding ‘sugar daddies’ through paid dating. 25-year-old Watanabe, who hails from Nagoya, Japan, was arrested in August for selling a number of dating scam manuals to her social media followers. featuring titles like ‘Textbook for Sugar Babies: The Right Profile and Magical Words to Make Men Pay,’ these books went into great detail about the right way to approach vulnerable middle-aged men and get as much money from them as possible. One of these controversial guidebooks taught readers to tell their sugar daddies that they had…

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