Author: Errica Jensen

A quiet, somewhat awkward physicist named Bob Lazar was interviewed by a Las Vegas television journalist named George Knapp in 1989. Over the next thirty years, this interview would become one of the most contentious videos in the history of UFO research. Lazar stated that he was employed in 1988 to work at S4, a classified facility in the Nevada desert close to Area 51, where the US government was storing and trying to reverse-engineer several extraterrestrial spacecraft. He explained the system of propulsion. In 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry confirmed and named Moscovium the element…

Bettijo Hirschi told a story on the Tamron Hall Show in 2024 about how Todd Bridges and Hirschi ended up together that is almost too sweet to be true. Hirschi needed to be on a dating app, according to a mutual friend who seemed to be enterprising when it came to matters of the heart. Hirschi had vowed not to use the apps. Nevertheless, the friend created a profile and began using Bridges, an actor she knew from somewhere nearby in her social circle, as a one-man focus group. She texted him pictures of Hirschi and asked if her hair…

Almost all American public schools rely on PowerSchool, one of those businesses that most parents are unaware of. Millions of classrooms use the software in the background to manage student records, monitor attendance and grades, and help with everything from enrollment paperwork to parent-teacher communication. It affects the data of about 50 million teachers and students in North America, according to most estimates. Because of its magnitude, the cybersecurity incident in December 2024 was extremely concerning, and the increasing number of lawsuits against the company is significant. Two separate legal battles are currently taking place concurrently. The first is a…

When Kehlani took the stage at Margaret T. Hance Park on Saturday night, the crowd was much larger than the park could accommodate. In an attempt to see over the heads of the thousands of people who had arrived earlier and positioned themselves closer to the front, people were standing on whatever elevated surface they could find, such as fence railings, low stone walls, or the tops of trash cans. On a warm April night, this free performance took place in downtown Phoenix, and it felt exactly like what the city had been waiting for. Over the years, the Super…

Matthew Gallagher looked much less like the founder of a billion-dollar company than the person who might be working as a waiter at the Soho House club in West Hollywood on a recent afternoon. He had messy curly hair, a baggy T-shirt, and visible tattoos on his hands and arms. He revealed to the New York Times reporter that he had spent nearly every waking moment for eighteen months working on Medvi. In order to make personal appointments without interfering with his work, he even used AI to clone his own voice. He claimed to be earning over $3 million…

A piece of evidence from the murder trial—a bicycle with the helmet still hanging off the side where she had left it after a ride—appears on screen at one point in The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson, which is currently available on Netflix. When it was introduced, the courtroom fell silent, according to producer Evan Hayes. The family seated in the gallery was profoundly impacted. It’s a tiny, specific detail that has a greater impact than nearly everything the documentary says out loud about the crime itself because it depicts the trace of a life that was cut short…

Millions of virtual rooms are still operational somewhere in a server farm, most likely in the Pacific Northwest. Paintball arenas, escape rooms, and hangout lounges created by teenagers who devoted hundreds of hours to the geometry, color scheme, and ambient sound are still being accessed by people. Those rooms are operational as of this writing. They will all go dark simultaneously on June 1st at noon Pacific time. The timing of the announcement, which came on March 30, two days before April Fool’s Day, gave the community a strange sense of hope for a brief period. This must have been…

Every few years, a certain type of film emerges that bears the burden of a cherished franchise, the expectations of a three-generational fan base, and a marketing campaign so intense that the movie itself nearly takes a backseat to the cultural event that surrounds it. That type of movie is the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Depending on how you felt about the final product, the opening on April 1st felt either perfectly timed or slightly ironic. It had raised $372.5 million worldwide by Sunday. Meanwhile, the majority of critics were elsewhere. The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which came out in…

Around 2023, a student in a Chicago high school who was only identified in court documents as Q.J. was doing what millions of American teenagers do every year: logging into Naviance, the college advising platform that is used in schools all over the nation to research universities, submit applications, and interact with instructors and counselors. The lawsuit filed on their behalf would claim that Q.J. was unaware that those exchanges were being monitored. Names, student ID numbers, graduation years, demographic data, photos, survey answers, and private correspondence with teachers were all allegedly being transferred to Google, Microsoft, and a digital…

It arrived on Saturday in the manner that British storms frequently do: with enough notice to cause people to feel uneasy, but when it finally touched down, it did so with a lot more force than the fear had fully prepared them for. Over the course of the Easter weekend, Storm Dave swept across the United Kingdom, causing wind gusts of up to 93 mph in North Wales, power outages in thousands of homes from Armagh to Swansea, the collapse of a gable wall in Blackpool, and the need for a mountain rescue team in the Lake District to rescue…