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Spanish police arrested five people for impersonating Brad Pitt in order to scam women by convincing them that the famed Hollywood actor was in love with them. The two women targeted by the online scammers lost a combined €325,000 ($364,000), Spanish media reported. Police say that the criminals operated by visiting online platforms for fans of the actor, and built up psychological profiles of the potential victims.

The water supply in Karachi, Pakistan, falls almost 50% short of demand. This leaves over 20 million people with inconsistent access to water. A new system developed by local startup Asani.io is trying to change this and bring hope to families across the city.

You’re standing in line at the grocery store or waiting for an elevator. You have no more than a minute to kill. And yet, before you’ve even processed what you’re doing, you’ve pulled out your phone and have begun to mindlessly scroll through TikTok or Instagram. Sound familiar? It does to Adrian Ward, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin who studies people’s relationships to technology.

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said that he has been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The three-time NFL MVP made the revelation during his testimony before a House committee on federal welfare reform. Favre had previously been implicated for his connections to Mississippi’s welfare abuse scandal involving the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and investments he made in a company that was researching treatments for concussions.

Polls are a centerpiece of our political news, especially as we get closer to Election Day. Journalists and forecasters will lean on these surveys to answer the question that will define the next five-plus weeks: Who will win? Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? The pressure to break the news first creates a danger represented most infamously by a three-word Chicago Tribune headline: “Dewey Defeats Truman.” This blunder stemmed from the certainty that journalists felt, based on the polls, that New York Governor Thomas Dewey would defeat President Harry Truman in 1948. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Washington, D.

This year, for the first time, TIME will debut a ranking of the World’s Top GreenTech Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings, alongside its second annual ranking of America’s Top GreenTech Companies. These lists will recognize the most innovative, impactful, and successful companies whose aim is to reduce human impact on the environment. Because many companies in this space are young, TIME and Statista are accepting applications as part of the research phase.