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A shadowy terrorist group called Assistants of the Global Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Norwegian Prime Minister's office and a massacre at a children's day camp via the Internet. A terrorists group has claimed responsibility for today's attacks in Oslo, Norway--which included the bombing of the Prime Minister's office and a massacre at a children's day camp by a gunman dressed as a police officer--using social media.

Twitter might boast more than 200 million users, with over 70% tweeting from outside the U.S., but Sina Weibo is fast catching up, with 140 million users and 10 million new accounts added each month. The latter service, often referred to as the "Twitter of China" (much like the Facebook copycats ) is considered by many to be a knockoff of the microblogging platform. Yet while there are many similarities between Twitter and Sina Weibo, the services are actually being used in very different ways,

By order of the Shadow Proclamation (okay, Facebook), select episodes of Doctor Who will materialize online for fans around the world. Including one that's never been released before. The BBC, that venerable broadcaster adored by grandmas across the globe, is trying something new: Its Worldwide arm is putting select episodes of one of the BBC's content jewels, Doctor Who, online as a paid video-on-demand service on Facebook .

(PhysOrg.com) -- In yet another stab at trying to prove the existence of dark matter, Dan Hooper and colleagues have published a paper on arXiv describing what they believe to be credible evidence of the material believed to comprise most of the mass in the Universe. They say, according to a recent BBC post, that it could be that electrons are created when high energy dark matter particles crash into one another, giving rise to the synchrotron radiation that has thus far puzzled scientists here on Earth.

The magi-cam is a robotic and mirrored surveillance device that most animals can't even see--taking advantage of many species' lack of sense of self.

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook's New Photo Sharing App The new standalone app will reportedly challenge the likes of

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Disney Goes Hulu Disney will launch a video-streaming site for their content within a year, according CEO Bob Iger.

Once again, science is confirming what we have always suspected. This time, after years of referring to Apple's customer base as the "cult of Mac" or "cult of Apple", a group of UK neuroscientists have been able to demonstrate that when you compare the brain MRI's of Apple fans versus those taken of people who consider themselves "very religious", well guess what

Being an Apple fan is almost a religion, according to one pseudo-scientific study that looked at brain scans of Apple worshipers. Great for Apple--but what's in it for you? Just imagine the marketing consequences..

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. "Turks Protest Internet Censorship" Pre-emptive protests against Internet censorship have sprung up in over 40 cities to rally against the Turkish government's voluntary obscenity filters. The tiered system plans to have four levels: children’s profile, family profile, domestic or standard profile, and may ban words like "blonde" and "sister-in-law." Concerned citizens do have reason to worry that such measures could lead to censorship, as Turkey already bans a number of popular sites, including YouTube.

Nearly 200 companies are getting ready to go publicthe most since 2000. Plus, why VC's aren't funding B2B start-ups, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs

Protesters have developed a novel way of smuggling information to the outside world: trading in their mobile camera phones for small, discreet pen cameras. While Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has not been engaging in violence on a Qadaffi-like scale, snipers have reportedly fired on peaceful protesters and civilian casualties were reported in several cities recently.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Groupon Dumps Trump Groupon pulls ads from Donald Trump's Apprentice website, saying it had gotten calls from customers upset about Trump's ongoing political circus .

Malaria kills one million people a year in the developing world. This is incredibly frustrating, because we can cure malaria. Everyone who dies from it dies simply because we can't get them the proper vaccines or drugs.