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You really can get anything from someone if you promise them fake pr0n. Thousands of tumblr users have had their accounts compromised, by a tumblr phishing scam that uses the term "adult content" to get you to enter your login info. It's actually working.

Ah, Finland. Home of hard-metal-cello musicians and delicious Karelian pasty. Also, apparently home to scientists who spend their time trying to drink really, really old beer. Who funds Finland's research programs, again?

The "new Facebook" is here, and at first glance, it looks suspiciously like Facebook. However, Google+ actually has some interesting features that will definitely change the social networking world.

Illumina, a company that offers genome sequencing to the public, has now announced an iPad application to be used to manage your genetic info -- which can be purchased for the low cost of $10k.

You probably didn't know that Tasmanian Devils are at risk for becoming extinct. Now, researchers are attempting to use new research in DNA sequencing as a last-ditch effort to save the species.

Just answer a bunch of possibly racist, creepy or otherwise revealing personal questions, and your new love interest is just a click away!

Apparently, getting sleep while stationed on a space station really blows. NASA's trying to change that, by monitoring the sleep habits of their astronauts.

In a slightly melancholic news announcement, NASA has released more details about their last space shuttle mission, which is scheduled to begin this July.

Using nothing but a few pieces of plastic with strategically drilled holes, researchers have successfully invented an invisibility "cloak" that could make ships undetectable on sonar.

Japan has just discovered how to gain independent control over muscle movement by using hacked hardware. Should we be afraid?