Jan 21
Can you spot the fakes? Hundreds of amazing images wash over our greedy eyeballs each and every day, clogging our Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds. Many of them are fakes, lies, or both. Like these!
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Nov 11
Every six months or so we hear that Paul Moller’s flying car is just a few years away! Too bad we’ve been hearing that for the past 40 years.
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Nov 04
Here in New York, shady brokers have long been known to sell the same apartment to multiple gullible buyers. In China, however, real estate scammers have gone to the next level: Buyers are being “taken hostage” by developers who fail to mention that the apartments they’re selling are totally illegal.
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May 10
May 03
“I have spent 22.4 hours on Twitter. See how much you have,” reads some text from Twitter’s latest link bait scam, SocialMeter.me. You’ve no doubt seen a handful or more of your follows tweet out their total or daily stats …
Jan 10
After years of complaints, scams, and careless screening tactics, Apple’s App Store is finally starting to figure itself out. The latest update should stop developers from using misleading screenshots by locking them into place once the app gets approved. More »
Jan 08
The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend (hey, nothing wrong with polyamory) got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You’ve been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close, so naturally, you want to post pictures of your beloved gift on Facebook, rubbing it in all your friends’ rodeo-less faces. Here’s a tip: don’t. Because someone will steal it. More »
Nov 26
Earlier today, a press release was floating around that claimed Google had bought Wi-Fi hotspot company ICOA for $400 million dollars. It was bogus but a lot of us bought it. So what gives? Why would someone do this? Probably to make a killing on stocks. More »
Nov 09
If You’re Buying a $200 iPad From a Stranger at the Gas Station at Least Look at It First
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Some things just sound too good to be true, like dirt cheap Apple products for instance. It generally turns out that it’s because they are, as an unfortunate Texas woman found out after purchasing an “iPad” from a stranger at a gas station for $200. She got a pretty sweet mirror though. More »
Oct 19
FTC offers $50,000 prize for stopping illegal robocalls, we could have used this a few months ago
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Robocalling is considered a plague in the modern phone world, especially during an election year — and while you likely won’t get rid of all the pitches from political candidates anytime soon, most of the commercial calls are outright illegal. The Federal Trade Commission has devised a unique contest to help cut back on those law-breakers without having to chase down every shady debt relief offer. It’s offering a $50,000 reward for the cleverest solution to blocking the banned variety of robocalls. The only requirement is that you be an adult US resident: if you can invent a surefire remedy in your basement, the FTC wants to hear from you. Entries will be open between October 25th and January 17th, with word of a winner around April 1st. We’re hoping that the champion has a truly effective cure in use before long, because we’ll undoubtedly have reached our breaking point on robocalls by… oh, around November 6th.
[Image credit: SarahNW, Flickr]
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