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Jimmy Nguyen, an 18-year-old student, saw his first “corecore” video on TikTok in January. He can’t remember which one it was – there are so many of them now. But he says it was typical of this new trend of video: other TikTok videos, celebrity or podcaster interviews, TV show and film clips spliced together over some sad or ambient music. They’re depressing, full of existential dread and usually and always broadly speaking on the theme of disconnection and alienation. Nguyen initially thought, like other users, that…

Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse were charged with manslaughter Wednesday in connection with the death of a man who screamed, “I can’t breathe!,” as they tried to draw blood from him, prosecutors said.Edward Bronstein was suspected of driving while intoxicated in 2020 when he was apprehended and later died in CHP custody at the agency’s Altadena station.The six officers and a sergeant who filmed the deadly encounter with Bronstein were charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault under color of…

A Tesla driver claims that Autopilot tried to avoid a wheel flying off a car that crashed in front of the Tesla vehicle. The whole thing was caught on video. TeslaCam is Tesla’s integrated dashcam system using its Autopilot cameras to record the vehicle’s surroundings in the event of an accident. It has caught some wild situations on video over the years and even helped the police arrest criminals. In some cases, it even helped showcase some of Tesla’s safety features, like the…

On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that the now-arrested alleged administrator of the infamous hacking forum BreachForums facilitated the sale and purchase of private information that belonged to “millions of U.S. citizens and hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies, organizations, and government agencies.” In a statement, prosecutors confirmed the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick, 20, aka Pompompurin, of Peekskill, New York. Fitzpatrick is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud,…

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An opossum nicknamed Prairie Dog met a gruesome fate last fall in Key Largo, Fla., when it was squeezed to death and then swallowed whole by a massive, 12-foot-long Burmese python. But you could say it got revenge, thanks to an unusual accessory: a tracking collar that led scientists to its killer. Prairie Dog was one of dozens of opossums and raccoons that scientists equipped with tracking collars as part of an ongoing study to try to understand how these mammals move across nature reserves on Key Largo, a 33-mile-long…

For much of the early part of 2023, the economy seemed to be humming along.Then the music stopped. In a span of less than two weeks, the financial world has turned on its head, leaving investors to contemplate whether the economic expansion is nearing its end. What began as a plight specific to one cryptocurrency-focused bank rapidly morphed into a crisis with economic, political and international repercussions. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed just days after the shutdown of the crypto lender…

Researchers studied videos of great apes spinning and found that the animals are deliberately getting dizzy; the team believes that the behavior may have implications for humankind’s occasional exploration of altered states of mind.Evidence collected from hundreds of instances of rope spinning across several great ape species demonstrated that, in some instances, the animals sought to induce dizziness. The researchers compare the behavior to spinning to induce mind-altering experiences in humans, like Sufi whirling. The…

Most spiders pose very little danger to humans, including the notorious noble false widow (Steatoda nobilis).But the half-inch predator does punch surprisingly far above its weight. According to a new study, for example, the noble false widow spider may habitually prey upon vertebrates, with known victims including lizards, bats, and now shrews.In fact, the study's authors recorded the latter at a gruesome scene outside a bedroom window in southern England, where a female noble false widow spider subdued and consumed a…

Photo: nikkytok (Shutterstock)Florida health officials say a man recently died from a brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri—an infection likely caught from rinsing his sinuses with tap water. These infections are incredibly rare but almost always lethal, and they have been previously linked to nasal rinsing, such as through the use of neti pots. As a result, it’s recommended that people only use sterile or recently boiled water when performing this activity.In late February, the Florida Department of Health in…