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Driver pays 1 million RMB for 'lucky' 88888 license plate, gets pulled over 8 times in one day


After spending just 30,000 RMB ($4,370) on his new vehicle, a driver surnamed Liu decided to splurge on his license plate, spending 1 million RMB ($145,705) on one with 5 lucky number 8s, hoping it would keep him out of trouble on the road. It totally backfired on him.

On his first day behind the wheel, Liu was stopped no less than eight times by local police. You must be wondering what exactly Liu was doing to attract so much attention. Well, according to NetEase, it wasn't Liu's driving, but his "lucky" license plate that caused police to pull him over, with officers believing that it just had to be fake.
 
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A Shocking Number of People Leave Laptops Behind at Airport Security Checkpoints


If you're anything like us, your technology is sort of like an extension of your physical person - so you feel an actual bodily lack if you are too far away from your phone or laptop. (Or did we just give away a pathological personal detail better kept to ourselves?)

That's why we were sort of shocked to see just how many people left their laptops behind at security checkpoints at Newark Liberty International Airport in just the last month or so:
 
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To save books, librarians created their own fictional reader


SORRENTO, Fla. - Chuck Finley appears to be a voracious reader, having checked out 2,361 books at the East Lake County Library in a nine-month period this year.

But Finley didn't read a single one of the books, ranging from "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck to a kids book called "Why Do My Ears Pop?" by Ann Fullick. That's because Finley isn't real.
 
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News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted dollhouses


SAN DIEGO - Shh! you may want to turn down your television set because Alexa the internet-connected home assistant device may be listening.

The Amazon Echo system which does everything from getting your weather report to ordering more laundry detergent can also do some things you don't want it to.

When it comes to answering those tough questions or getting that extra help around the house, Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo is just a voice-command away.
 
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Who's winning the cyber war? The squirrels, of course


WASHINGTON, DC-For years, the government and security experts have warned of the looming threat of "cyberwar" against critical infrastructure in the US and elsewhere. Predictions of cyber attacks wreaking havoc on power grids, financial systems, and other fundamental parts of nations' fabric have been foretold repeatedly over the past two decades, and each round has become more dire. The US Department of Energy declared in its Quadrennial Energy Review, just released this month, that the electrical grid in the US "faces imminent danger from a cyber attack."

So far, however, the damage done by cyber attacks, both real (Stuxnet's destruction of Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges and a few brief power outages alleged to have been caused by Russian hackers using BlackEnergy malware) and imagined or exaggerated (the Iranian "attack" on a broken flood control dam in Rye, New York), cannot begin to measure up to an even more significant cyber-threat-squirrels.
 
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Speeder caught using mannequin to cheat carpool lane in Washington state


Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The Washington State Patrol said a speeder was also ticketed for carpool cheating when the "young lady" riding shotgun was found to be a lifelike mannequin.

Trooper Todd Bartolac, the state patrol's public information officer, said on Twitter the man was pulled over Friday for speeding in the high-occupancy lane of Interstate 5, north of Tacoma, and the trooper soon realized there was something amiss about the "young lady" in the passenger seat.
 
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