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A Wisconsin hospice nurse and taxidermist is facing jail time after allegedly cutting off a dying 62-year-old man's frostbitten foot without permission.

Taxidermist Nurse Accused of Cutting Off Dying Man’s Foot Without Permission

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cats, ever the mischievous and frisky pets, may be harboring a lot more human DNA than once thought, possibly tampering crime scenes, a new study says.

Science & Energy

Cats May Be Tampering With Crime Scenes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

An AI that predicts crime before it happens is being implemented in several US cities — but it's founder says that he forsees no police abuse of the system.

Professor Says He Foresees No Issues With His AI That Predicts Crimes Before They Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Police in China are putting surveillance on the future with footage, data and patterns of residents and reporting troublemakers to the government.

Police in China Stalk Citizens With Surveillance That Predicts Future Crime

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Police found five deceased fetuses in the DC home of a Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising anti-choice activist who had already been arrested five times.

Health & Medicine

Police Find Five Fetuses in Home of Anti-Abortion Activist

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The heads were slated to be used for medical research when they were pilfered sometime between last Wednesday and Thursday.

Someone Stole a Bunch of Human Heads from a Medical Truck

By Tony Ho Tran

San Francisco cops are accused of entering the DNA of sexual assault victims into a database to help identify criminals — resulting in at least one arrest.

Cops Allegedly Used a Sexual Assault Survivor’s DNA to Arrest Her for Property Crime

By Tony Ho Tran

A number of thieves on the OpenSea platform have made more than $1 million by exploiting a loophole in the NFT trading platform.

Thieves Just Stole Even More Bored Ape NFTs

By Tony Ho Tran

Apple's CEO has taken out a restraining order against a stalker who keeps emailing him photos of loaded guns and creeping around his house.

Apple CEO Menaced by Armed Stalker Who Thinks She’s His Wife

By Noor Al-Sibai

Prosecutors have charged a Tesla driver with vehicular manslaughter after his Autopilot-enabled car crashed into another vehicle killing two people in 2019

Tesla Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Two People on Autopilot

By Tony Ho Tran

A recent investigation found damning evidence that famed physicist Erwin Schrödinger was a pedophile — and even groomed and impregnated a 17-year-old girl.

Quantum Physics

Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile

By Tony Ho Tran

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers in China created a machine that can file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy based on a description of a suspected criminal case.

Artificial Intelligence

China Created an AI ‘Prosecutor’ That Can Charge People with Crimes

By Tony Ho Tran

A rising number of burglary and homicide crime cases is causing celebrities to stockpile bulletproof cars and safe rooms for security.

The Wealthy Are Suddenly Hoarding Safe Rooms and Bulletproof Cars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Fraudsters used a deepfaked voice of a company executive to fool a bank manager to transfer the millions to their possession in early 2020.

Bank Robbers Steal $35 Million by Deepfaking Boss’s Voice

By Tony Ho Tran

Anthony Zadravic, a real estate agent in New South Wales, landed in court after he forgot to add an apostrophe to a post criticizing his former workplace.

Man Sued for Bad Grammar in His Facebook Post

By Tony Ho Tran

227 environmental and land rights activists were murdered throughout the world in 2020, according to the report from Global Witness.

A Huge Number of Environmental Activists Are Getting Murdered

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.

Man Sues Parents of Kids Who Stole His Bitcoin

By Tony Ho Tran

Law enforcement officials in Malaysia seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs before crushing them all with a big steamroller last week.

Watch Police Crush 1,069 Bitcoin Mining Rigs With a Huge Steamroller

By Tony Ho Tran

Law enforcement agencies across the globe are working together to take down dark web marketplaces facilitating illegal activity.

Man Arrested for Selling Insider Trading Info on Dark Web

By Tony Ho Tran

A Pennsylvania mom was arrested after she allegedly created deepfakes of her daughter's cheerleading rivals to sully their reputation.

Artificial Intelligence

Mom Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Frame Daughter’s Cheerleading Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

An ominous scoop by The Courier-Journal, a local paper in Kentucky: judges in the state are ordering coronavirus patients to isolate — a demand they're enforcing by making them wear ankle monitors, as if they were under house arrest.

Kentucky Is Forcing Coronavirus Patients to Wear Ankle Monitors

By Jon Christian

A bizarre plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint has earned Instagram influencer Rossi Lorathio Adams II a 14-year prison sentence.

Man Behind Plot to Steal a Domain at Gunpoint Is Headed to Prison

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado State University have found "strong links" between air pollution exposure and "aggressive behavior."

Study: Higher Air Pollution Linked to Increases in Violent Crime

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI arrested a man who used his drone to drop a homemade bomb on his ex's home, potentially heralding a terrifying era of futuristic, violent crimes.

FBI Arrests Man For Bombing Ex’s House With a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronaut Anne McClain's estranged wife has accused her of committing what may be the first example of a "space crime."

NASA Astronaut Accused of First Space Crime

By Kristin Houser

A British student was just convicted today by London police of manufacturing a firearm using a 3D printer, according to Agence France-Presse.

UK Student Convicted for 3D Printing Gun

By Victor Tangermann

A social media entrepreneur could spend the next 20 years in prison because he paid someone to try to steal a domain name at gunpoint.

Someone Used a Gun to Try to Steal a Domain Name

By Kristin Houser

Chicago is tracking teenagers who are awaiting trial with ankle monitors that can be used to call and record them at any time.

Chicago is Making Teens Wear Ankle Monitors That Record Audio

By Dan Robitzski

Home invaders tortured a crypto trader with an electric to force him to give up his cryptocurrency, according to a Dutch newspaper.

Robbers Tortured a Man With a Drill to Steal His Cryptocurrency

By Jon Christian

Australian homeowners say someone is using a drone to leer in their windows, according to the Melbourne newspaper the Herald Sun.

Someone Is Terrorizing People By Peering In Windows With a Drone

By Jon Christian

A newly uploaded video featuring a drone bike theft is probably fake, but it does draw attention to the possibility of the devices supporting crime.

Watch a Drone Steal a Bicycle

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?

By Foster Kamer

Cities’ “Smart” Led Streetlights May Be Secretly Watching Over You

Cities’ “Smart” Led Streetlights May Be Secretly Watching Over You

By Chelsea Gohd

Bad DNA Tests Are Getting Innocent People Convicted

Bad DNA Tests Are Getting Innocent People Convicted

Investigators Are Using Advanced Augmented Reality to Help Solve Crimes

Virtual Reality

Investigators Are Using Advanced Augmented Reality to Help Solve Crimes

By Jelor Gallego

Minority report: Hitachi to test predictive crime system this October

Minority report: Hitachi to test predictive crime system this October