One would think that the biggest tech companies in the world would have stringent safety and security measures to prevent them from being scammed.

But indeed they were victims of fraud attacks by Evaldas Rimasauskas who used business emails to trick employees and siphoned over $100 million into several bank accounts.

According to the indictment, Rimasauskas registered and incorporated a Latvian company with the same name as the Asian computer hardware manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc as reported by Bloomberg, and also opened multiple accounts at banks from Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Latvia to receive the fraudulent payments.

Today's DoJ release states that he "caused forged invoices, contracts, and letters that falsely appeared to have been executed and signed by executives and agents of the Victim Companies, and which bore false corporate stamps embossed with the Victim Companies’ names, to be submitted to banks in support of the large volume of funds that were fraudulently transmitted via wire transfer."

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Certain circumstances can push someone so close to the edge that they get the sudden impulse to want to end their suffering as quickly as possible. However, in the case of this sailor from the Royal Navy, the attempt on his life was unsuccessful.

When the man was brought to Stephen Love Hammick, the navy surgeon observed the extreme agony of the man who was bleeding profusely from his mouth and the extent of damage that a pistol ball had done to his face, mouth, and neck.

Hammick tried every possible way to keep the man alive despite the pain that the man had to endure. The surprising method he used to usher a speedy recovery was the lemonade enema. Read on for the full story.

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The Ethiopian emperor Tewodros II had an unfortunate end to his life, but one that no doubt he had done to preserve dignity and honor. Instead of being taken prisoner by British forces in the 19th century, he shot himself and they took two locks from his hair.

Now the National Army Museum in London, to which the locks of hair had been given, will be returning it to its rightful place.

The return of the locks follows a recent report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron that recommended African treasures in French museums be returned to their countries of origin. During colonial rule in Africa, thousands of cultural artefacts were plundered from the continent by Western countries.

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Spotted by the Gran Telescopio Canarias combined with images from the Hubble Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new Einstein's cross which confirms a phenomenon called gravitational lensing which he had predicted in his Theory of General Relativity.

In his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein said that the trajectory of light curves in the presence of matter. This effect can be observed in the case of light emitted by a distant galaxy, when its light passes close to another galaxy on its way to the observer.

The phenomenon is known as gravitational lensing and gravitational lenses act like magnifying glasses that change the size, shape, and intensity of the image of the distant object.

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A study on male and female serial killers' modus operandi have led researchers to determine how their methods differ which could be explained by psychological evolution. Of course, this is not to say that the patterns are fixed and that men and women will only stick to a certain method.

But this research does inform us about the motives, how men and women generally go about these crimes, and it would give us insight to help murder investigations.

While there is considerable public interest in serial killers, Harrison said there has been little research on these crimes, possibly because serial killers are relatively rare.

But while working on a previous study, Harrison started to notice a difference between male and female serial-killing patterns that she was interested in exploring.

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NASA's Juno space probe has been orbiting Jupiter for almost eight years now and it has taken some marvelous photos of the Red Giant. Here's one that was recently captured by Juno showing the Great Red Spot and Jupiter's southern hemisphere as it passed by.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu.

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When you put together the greatest minds in one room, we are sure to expect great innovations and discoveries to come from them, or so that's what we think would happen in such a scenario.

Being able to bounce off ideas with other people can give inspiration and motivation for these geniuses to uncover the principles of nature and help the rest of us understand the mechanisms of the world, in order for us to put it into practical use.

During the latter phase of the Renaissance and well into the Age of Enlightenment, many great minds sprung up all over Europe. But England had been one of the nations that made the most use out of their geniuses, and this was how they did it. Eventually, with these efforts, England was able to kickstart the Industrial Revolution.

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Six months after Hayabusa2 first landed on the asteroid Ryugu, we finally get to see the first set of data that it has collected from the floating rock.

Hayabusa2 is one of two missions currently visiting and attempting to collect samples from asteroids near the Earth. Its initial observations have already revealed a Ryugu that differed from expectations: rather than a wet mass of differently shaped rocks, it’s a spinning pile of uniform rubble with less water than expected.

These new insights will help scientists write this object’s history, which now seems to include a period of rapid rotation and a potentially chaotic birth from a parent body.

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A group of researchers set out to study the different creatures that exist in people's homes and whether their numbers varied depending on the temperature inside. As a result, the researchers found an off-topic insight regarding Americans' climate preferences indoors.

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Aviation safety experts have pretty stringent standards and protocols in place to ensure the safe travels of passenger planes and other aircraft. With various crashes that happened in the past, they have uncovered defects, negligence, and other reasons why mishaps occurred during a flight.

But how does an airplane crash investigation really work? How do they piece together the puzzle and come to a conclusion as to what happened before, during, and after an airplane crash? Here are some of the details on how these investigations go based on an aviation safety expert.

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Driverless cars are becoming a thing with the help of artificial intelligence. Someday soon, we might even see commercial vehicles that do not need a human driver which could also help reduce traffic accidents and efficiency of transport.

That concept is now crossing over to flight. Currently in the works is an AI "computer brain" called Skyborg that would enable aircraft to be flown without pilot. This effort is being spearheaded by the US Air Force and they hope that if this research succeeds, it would lead to having AI as a digital co-pilot.

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Pierlucio Tinazzi was a guy who just loved going for ride on his motorcycle. He was employed as a security guard at the Mont Blanc Tunnel until the fateful day of the fire that claimed the lives of 37 people, one of them being Tinazzi.

The story went that before he had succumbed to the fire, he Tinazzi had rescued ten people from the blaze. As a result, he was heralded as an Italian hero and given numerous posthumous awards. Various motorcycle magazines ran his story and he became famous among motorcyclists.

Mark Gardiner was one of those who wrote about Tinazzi. The story he wrote about Tinazzi had been published in 2003 but as he revisited the details, he began to realize that the legend of Tinazzi wasn't true.

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The internet was only in a fledgling phase when the first sort of viral event happened. Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet that flew very close to Jupiter and whose fragments were shredded by Jupiter's gravity.

Shoemaker-Levy 9 lit up the tiny online community. Degroot found that nearly as many people as were hooked up to the internet at the time accessed NASA's resources about impact week.

"This was really the first sort of viral event," Degroot said, and the internet fervor was covered by print media as well. "That really raised the profile of the internet, and not just for the online minority but also for the offline majority … it was pretty much everywhere."

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From the impacts of a supernova explosion, a pulsar was seen dashing through space going at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour, propelled by the explosion.

“Thanks to its narrow dart-like tail and a fortuitous viewing angle, we can trace this pulsar straight back to its birthplace,” said Frank Schinzel, a scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. “Further study of this object will help us better understand how these explosions are able to ‘kick’ neutron stars to such high speed.”

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Some animals, when cornered, play dead in the hopes that the predator would leave it alone thinking that there is no use in eating a lifeless carcass.

When you think about it, there are certain things with this behavior that seem illogical and rely purely on the hope that the predator would not be interested in dead prey. But the fact is not all predators are concerned with that. So why do certain animals feign death?

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