Barnett told our NBC Responds team in Philadelphia about a scam called “ghost tapping”. Here’s how it works. A thief gets close to you in a crowded place with a concealed card reader. Then charges ...

Ghost tapping is a fraud method that targets the “tap-to-pay” feature found on cards and mobile wallets. It involves using ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

The first production of Shooting Star, a comic theatre production by the playwright Basil Thomas, was in 1949. It was about English football and the transfer market and was later adapted for ...

Tapping a beer can is a time-honoured way to stop it fizzing over when you open it, but does it work? Sadly not, according to researchers who carried out a randomised trial to find out. There is a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. They say you can’t un-break what’s broken, un-see what you’ve seen or put the toothpaste back in ...

Peeling a hard-boiled egg is becoming an easier task for social media users who are coming across a spoon-tapping trick that has been a go-to for amateur and professional cooks. Dr. Jordan Burns, an ...

What is hair tapping, you ask? Think of the most literal translation: a massage with tapping movements that can be practiced during your shampooing ritual. I thought I knew everything about the ...

The late Dutch Schultz loathed wire-tappers. “I hope your ears drop off,” he’d say bitterly before he put up his telephone receiver, reasonably certain they would hear him. The obsession grew worse in ...