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 ...

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Ghost tapping tries to exploit tap-to-pay to steal your money. The scammer targets physical payment cards and mobile wallets. The scam can be hard to pull off, but scammers persist. Tapping to pay for ...

Origins: Our desire to exert mastery over seemingly bad-intentioned inanimate objects fuels belief in the oddest things. A shaken soda can will spew foam at us when it's opened, so we're quick to ...

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 Better Business Bureau (BBB) issued a public warning about a new scam that could affect people looking to pay with mobile apps and certain credit and debit cards at the register. It's called ...

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Universal Pictures is developing Tapping the Source, based on the novel by surf noir writer Kem Nunn. Nunn you’ll remember is the co-creator of David Milch’s HBO series John ...

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 ...