A woman who caused a panic on a subway train last week was arrested on Tuesday and now faces a reckless endangerment charge. 

Zaida Pugh, 21, a self-described actress, said she was hoping to create a viral video and start a conversation around how people treat the homeless when she walked onto a D train last week with a bucket of bugs. 

Pugh, pretending to be homeless, said she was selling crickets and worms for a quarter each. 

In a video of the incident, a riled up and nervous group of people crowds around Pugh as she walks amid passengers on the train. She and some of the passengers shout at each other before one of them smacks the bucket out of Pugh's hands, sending hundreds of critters flying.  Read more...

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If the rapid ascent of the wearables as a hot new category is, after the tepid reception to the Apple Watch, poised to falter, Xiaomi's uninspiring new Amazfit may be the final death knell for the smartwatch. 

Unveiled by Xiaomi-backed company Huami during an event in China this week, the device features GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and packs a heart rate monitor for fitness tracking. 

Very little information is available regarding the device on either company's official website but, according to GSM Arena, the device will offer up to 35 hours of battery life, is waterproof and works with the MiFitt app for the iOS and Android. According to the report, if you switch the device to pedometer mode you can get about 11 days of battery life from it.  Read more...

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In 1980, a 25-year-old university graduate named Steve Jobs turned up in the Irish city of Cork with a plan. 

He was going to revolutionize the world with mini personal computers that could store things like recipes or doctor's notes. In a few years, he told a newspaper reporter at the time, they would drop significantly in cost and change the way we live.

It took a little longer for us all to be holding personal devices, but he wasn't wrong. The article was published on Dec. 23, 1980 and with a small amount of skepticism it spoke of the man who brought a $7 million investment and 700 jobs to Cork.  Read more...

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A new video from NASA shows all three powerful hurricanes currently churning waters on Earth as seen by the International Space Station in one day.

Two hurricanes in the Pacific — Madeline and Lester — have the potential to threaten Hawaii, and Hurricane Gaston is still in the open Atlantic Ocean. 

All three of them are on stark display in the new time-lapse video taken on Aug. 30 from the Space Station.

The station's cameras were able to capture all of these storms in one day thanks to the incredible speed at which the outpost is moving. 

In order to stay in orbit, the laboratory needs to speed above Earth at more than 17,000 miles per hour, making a full circuit of the planet every 90 minutes, and giving astronauts an amazing view of all of Earth's landscapes. Read more...

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After an in-depth analysis of Apple, the European Commission found that Ireland gave the company illegal tax benefits worth $14.5 billion (€13 billion).

On Tuesday, after a three-year investigation into Apple's Irish tax affairs, Apple was ordered to pay the €13 billion to the Irish government. The ruling states that the dealings are "illegal under EU state aid rules, because it allowed Apple to pay substantially less tax than other businesses. Ireland must now recover the illegal aid." 

Now, $14.5 billion sounds like a lot of money, but to really put things into perspective, we figured we would break that figure down in terms of popular Apple products. Needless to say, the numbers were awe-inspiring. Read more...

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According to a new study by Eötvös Loránd University, you've been right all along: your dog can actually understand you.

Researchers found that dogs were able to understand both the meaning and tone of words, meaning that if your dog looks a little angry, they may have actually understood that it was time to go to the vet. 

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From books to television to movies, clowns have managed to become symbols of terror, a feeling the residents of one South Carolina community know all too well.

It all began with a pair of reports to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in Greenville, South Carolina, on August 20 of "a suspicious person dressed in circus clown clothing and white face paint" trying to lure kids into the woods close to Fleetwood Manor Apartments.

Witnesses were initially uncooperative, but when an officer made a follow-up visit, additional witnesses came forward, according to WYFF. One woman said her son reported seeing clowns "whispering" and trying to lure him into the woods and, later, saw clowns in the same area flashing green lights.  Read more...

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Stuntwoman Jessie Graff became the first female contestant to complete the Stage 1 obstacle course of the American Ninja Warrior national finals. Read more...

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The border-crossing scene of Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario might just be the most tense moment of the entire film. 

We broke it down to see just how the filmmakers establish the scene and lead viewers through the big crescendos. While the build up lasts for 13 minutes, there are only nine seconds of actual violence. 

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Happy hours this summer aren't about the authentic martini or the perfect pint. They're about the alcoholic slush. 

These sludgy, crystallized drinks (trademarked brands include Icees and 7-Eleven's Slurpees) are a mixture of sugar and water with flavor additions including coffee or carbonated beverages. 

Kate Laufler Gorenstein, of premium liquor brand public relations company KLG Public Relations, tells Mashable, "Frosé has certainly played a role in the popularity of the adult slush ... People want to drink something that is refreshing and lower in proof during the summer months. That said, the adult slushee has been around long before the frosé craze and it will be around after. There is the obvious tie into nostalgia." Read more...

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When Kimberly Jones got a text from her 11-year-old daughter, Bella, she was upset. 

Not because her daughter was texting while at school, but because the Lansing, Kansas middle schooler was forced to swap her leggings for school sweatpants after being told her tunic was too short and a dress code violation. 

Jones detailed the incident and the embarrassment her daughter felt in a Facebook post that has since gone viral. 

"She texted me all upset sobbing that they told her not to call me and that she had to wear borrowed sweatpants all day," Jones posted on Facebook. "Their policy is that they are not allowed to change."  Read more...

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The use of mobile devices by parents to keep their kids occupied is fairly well established, but a new study indicates that those devices' calming effect may even be useful for surgeries.

A new study being published by the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) claims that giving a child an iPad to use before surgery can be as relaxing as a sedative. 

"Our study showed that child and parental anxiety before anaesthesia are equally blunted by midazolam or use of the iPad," Dr. Dominique Chassard said in a statement released in the run-up to the release of the group's research findings.  Read more...

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The border-crossing scene of Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario might just be the most tense moment of the entire film. 

We broke it down to see just how the filmmakers establish the scene and lead viewers through the big crescendos. While the build up lasts for 13 minutes, there are only nine seconds of actual violence. 

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The people have spoken. This week, Blizzard revealed who was picked to compete in the Overwatch World Cup 

Members of the Overwatch community voted on which they players they wanted to represent their country. 

Over 50 countries from six continents have teams in the competition. You can check out each country's roster here.

The player with the most votes from each country became the designated captain of their country's team; three more team slots were filled by the people with the next three highest vote totals. The remaining two slots were picked by the team's captain. Read more...

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Dramatic footage from a 10-vehicle pileup posted online Monday shows a group of brave bystanders rushing to rescue a woman from her burning car.

The crash, which took place on Route 17 in Binghamton, New York on Thursday, sent 10 people to the hospital with (not life-threatening) injuries and brought out the heroic side of a group of onlookers.

Binghamton's Mayor, Richard C. David, released dash cam footage of the crash on Facebook, which shows bystanders fearlessly attempting to put out a car fire and rescue a trapped driver. Read more...

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By now you may have heard rumors about the recent detection of what's been described as a "strong signal," possibly sent out by an advanced form of alien life in a star system 94 light-years away.

Pretty exciting, right? 

Well, before you go pack your bags and wait for the aliens to come along and pick you up, there are a few things you should know.

The strong radio signal, detected by astronomers using a telescope in Russia, was actually heard in May 2015. 

It's certainly a cool finding, but it's also nothing close to a confirmation of intelligent life out in the universe.  Read more...

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Can a peanut butter and jelly sandwich be beautiful? Even underneath all the cheap, floppy white bread and easy-squeeze jelly?

That's the question posed by Foodbeast's new series, Jeff's Table, the satirical response to the Netflix documentary series Chef's Table. Instead of world-famous chefs preparing ornate foods, we meet Jeff, who makes a cheap sandwich with "whatever's on sale." 

Like Chef's Table, though, Jeff and his sandwich creation is mostly elegant. Until the belch, at least.

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