A bank glitch gave a 24-year old, down-on-his-luck Australian man access to unlimited funds. Then he did exactly what you think he did with it.

American tourist Noel Santillan became an unlikely folk hero in Iceland after he entered a typo into his GPS and drove hundreds of miles out of his way. How can anyone wander so far off the mark? Research suggests GPS might be altering our brains.

Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"

Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?

How a teenager created Oculus Rift in his parents' SoCal garage, sold it for $2 billion and may have launched a virtual reality revolution.

Guillaume Olivier Madiba is helming one of the world’s most innovative videogame companies—not in Silicon Valley or Japan, but in Africa, where Kiro’o Games is diversifying a $100 billion industry

To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.

An engineer and his dog attempt to survive for a year on a frozen island teeming with bears.

His website made him an unlikely teenage celebrity — then it spun out of control

How did a homeless kid from Boston transform himself into a major overlord in Chinatown's criminal underworld?

How a former steer wrestler became one of America’s biggest wildlife traffickers.

James McGibney and his online army: The Bullyville founder aims to stop the worst of the worst on the Internet - but critics say he's the real bully.

How Anonymous incited online vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson.

Supporters of Internet freedom rallied around weev before he went to prison. But now that the hacker is out, he’s douchier—and maybe scarier—than ever

When three daredevils snuck into the new World Trade Center tower and jumped off, they were looking for adventure, excitement, and the freedom of flight. Instead, they may lose their freedom altogether.