Avast is a popular anti-virus program that you can download and use entirely for free, with the company hoping that you'll like their product enough to buy a full license. Despite the try-it-forever price of $0, people still pirate the full version, and rather than freaking out about this, the company decided to just watch what happened as one particular license key got stolen like crazy.

Some of those elaborately designed weapons you see spy movies actually exist, like the Triar II pistol to rifle conversion kit, a very real contraption that looks like something from Gears of War.

We're used to thinking about eyes and fingerprints getting scanned when a character in a movie goes into a high-tech facility. Well, what if they had their ears scanned, too? Turns out it's a pretty accurate way to tell people apart — like 99.6% accurate.

If you were on Twitter earlier this morning, you may have noticed that a slew of tweets looked like gibberish, some from some pretty serious sources, such as the White House Press Secretary. It was all thanks to a virus...