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If you wanted to create an army of conspiracy theorists who don’t trust the medical establishment and increase vaccine hesitancy in the populace, what would you do? You’d suggest using microchips to store vaccine status, of course! And a Swedish company is doing just that—it has developed a subdural microchip implant that can be used to store vaccine passports. The company, called Epicenter, which specializes in subdermal microchips, says the implants, which are the size of a grain of rice, use near-field communications (NFC) technology, which can be easily read by common devices like cell phones. Similar to a QR...

Bomber the dog has gone underground. He was given a new home in a new town with a new family, even a new name. "He's in the doggy witness protection program," Jill Parnham said. Parnham and the 2nd Chance Pet Rescue chose to pay $5,000, as stipulated by a small claims court ruling, rather than surrender the Labrador mutt to the family who lost him last year. That much money could buy a purebred champion, possibly a multiple champion "with super breeding potential" in the world of show dogs, said Judythe Coffman, a longtime breeder, author and American Kennel Club...