POSTED // Aug 1,2011 - Russia’s largest retail bank has begun using automated teller machines with built-in lie detectors. Speech Technology Center developed the voice-analysis system for Sberbank to prevent consumer credit fraud by interrogating customers applying for credit at the ATMs.

POSTED // Jul 25,2011 - Noting that 20 percent of Germans use the erotic aids, 10 Green Party legislators in the Bundestag released a paper called “Sexual Health as a Consumer Protection Issue.”

POSTED // Jul 18,2011 - The first case of texting impairment caused by Botox has been reported by the journal Archives of Dermatology.

POSTED // Jul 11,2011 - A 39-year-old woman was injured when a tombstone at Ahavath Israel Cemetery in Hamilton, N.J., fell on her leg while she and a male companion were engaged in what police Capt. James Stevens termed “extracurricular activities.”

POSTED // Jul 4,2011 - One consequence of the deadlier-than-usual tornado season in the United States has been record-breaking sales for the roughly 100 companies that sell...

POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - A smartphone app led South Korean police to a murder suspect.

POSTED // Jun 21,2011 - Dan Reeves spent nine years and $40,000 building a two-seater, single-engine airplane in the basement of his home in Cumberland County, Pa., assembling pieces as they arrived.

POSTED // Jun 10,2011 - The boy was trying to show his dad a trick called “skitching,”

POSTED // Jun 7,2011 - A surveillance video showed the man who stole two 24-packs of beer from a convenience store in Lake Wales, Fla., making his getaway.

POSTED // May 27,2011 - Dexter White, 41, called 911 in North Charleston, S.C., complaining that he paid $60 to a drug dealer for crack cocaine but received only $20 worth of drugs and that the dealer refused to give him his $40 change.