“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain Everyone knows that Facebook is a great place for people to search for other people and find friends and family; but today, the world’s largest social network became the world’s largest online memorial site, when Facebook mistakenly posted memorial messages at the top of […]
Missionaries Reunite With Brothers They Rescued 40 Years Ago
This is a great story about what brave, selfless people can accomplish in life. Two Canadian missionaries have been reunited with two brothers that they rescued from Laos 40 years ago. Reg Reimer and his wife Donna were Canadian missionaries working in Thailand in 1977, when they bravely smuggled two young brothers out of the war-torn […]
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Google Street View Catches Shoplifter
Google Street View cameras have recorded a lot of strange scenes and surprising events over the years, but this has to rank as one of the best. A woman has been arrested for shoplifting after she was caught by a Google Street View camera leaving a store with merchandise. An IT worker who was searching […]
Lowe’s Settles Background Check Lawsuit
Lowe’s has reportedly settled a controversial employee background check lawsuit for $2.2 million in damages and legal fees. Last week, a federal judge in North Carolina approved the multi-million dollar settlement between Lowe’s and a group of people who were denied jobs with the company due to personal information found on the background check reports […]
Cheap Glasses Hide People From Facial Recognition
Just when the use of facial recognition to identify people is becoming more pervasive with businesses and governments, along comes an inexpensive personal accessory that could disrupt the whole plan. A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has invented a cheap pair of eyeglass frames that can fool the most advanced facial-recognition systems. Remarkably, these […]
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