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In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony's PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords.

Mario Ward has robbed trains, stolen whiskey and nearly shot a man to death over a dice game. Last Christmas, Ward was apparently the mastermind of another large heist -- this time stealing over $100,000 worth of gaming consoles.

Scientists have spent centuries studying our solar system. However, apparently we don't know everything about one of our closest planetary neighbors.

Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.

Once thought to be a dying breed of over-promised innovation, and overvaluation, the Internet I.P.O. is making a comeback.

Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.

No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.

Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.

Using your thumbs to manipulate a virtual joystick is about as intuitive as ice-skating on gravel. The Fling, pictured above, offers a stupid simple solution to gaming with your thumbs on the iPad.

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.