A sex toy that links up with a smartphone app may be innovative, but the makers of popular app-enabled vibrator We-Vibe might have just stumbled upon a critical issue: One woman in Chicago is suing We-Vibe’s manufacturer, Standard Innovation, for collecting and transmitting her information, including her email address and the vibration settings she used, without her consent. The user, …

Stingrays from the Amazon River chew up their insect meals, just as mammals might, using complex jaw motions to shred the tough outer shells of juvenile beetles and dragonflies, says new research. Using a combination of high-speed video and CT scans Matthew Kolmann, a recently graduated PhD in the lab of U of T Scarborough’s Nathan Lovejoy found that as …

Glee actress Naya Rivera has spilled the beans on her feud with co-star Lea Michele , revealing they didn’t speak once during the last season. Reports of an on-set rivalry were first sparked in 2014, when the two allegedly became embroiled in a heated fight, prompting series creator Ryan Murphy to allegedly fire Naya and leave her character, Santana Lopez, …

Two New Westminster middle school boys are once again calling on the provincial government to make the vaccine for the human papillomavirus – commonly known as HPV – available to all genders. Nelson Roy, 13, and his twin brother Elliott have filed a human rights complaint and claim the province of British Colombia’s immunization program is discriminatory against young men. …

Hundreds have been evacuated in southern Taiwan and China following a red alert as the region braces for the impact of the strongest storm of the year. The storm is the strongest since Supertyphoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in 2013, and it is the biggest to near Taiwan since 1959, CNN reports. About 150,000 people have been evacuated and 260,000 …

Women who experience high levels of stress have a harder time conceiving, a new study confirms. Scientists at the University of Louisville and Emory University found that women who reported feeling more stressed around the time they were ovulating were 40 percent less likely to become pregnant when compared with other, less stressful months. In a similar vein, women who …

A new study suggests that the United States might have a shot at controlling its obesity problem by simply legalizing marijuana across the entire nation. Scientists found that people in the study who used marijuana daily had about a 3 percent lower BMI (body mass index), on average, than those who did not use marijuana at all. “There is a …

 The Tango-equipped Phab 2 Pro was expected to debut in September, but Lenovo has now officially delayed the handset to the fall. The store page for the Phab 2 Pro has been adjusted from “coming this summer” to “coming this fall.”

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton left a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sept. 11 after an hour and a half, stumbled into a van and was taken to her daughter’s nearby apartment to recover from pneumonia-related dehydration. Clinton soon walked out of her daughter’s apartment, posed with a little girl for a picture and got back into her vehicle. Clinton’s fast …

The internet is lighting up with conspiracy theories that a body double was used to stand in for Hillary Clinton as she emerged from her daughter’ apartment Sunday after collapsing at a 9/11 memorial ceremony. Hours after Hillary Clinton nearly collapsed at a 9/11 anniversary event on Sunday, an elderly woman claiming to be the Democratic candidate appeared outside of …

A Filipino crew member died and four others were critically injured when a lifeboat fell off the world’s biggest cruise liner. Four others were injured when the lifeboat they were in fell from the fifth deck to the water, 33 feet below. Two of the crew members are hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. The accident happened during a stopover in Marseille, …