Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," Facebook said in a statement. "We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to ...

Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," Facebook said in a statement. "We resolved the issue quickly, and should now be back to ...

Facebook appeared to be down Tuesday night for some users. Website service monitoring site DownRightNow noted that as of 9:10 p.m. ET, the social network was dealing with a disruption, although it wasn't known how widespread it was.Going to Facebook's website resulted not in the usual sign-in, but this message for some "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we...

The National Security Agency is reviewing whether to stop collecting a vast stockpile of records of Americans telephone calls the most controversial component of its surveillance programs by allowing telecommunications companies to retain the data until U.S. intelligence officials have a specific reason to review it for possible connections to terror plots, U.S. officials said TuesdayThe NSAs...

By Tanya Lewis, LiveScienceAn eight-legged love tragedy may go something like this: The male spider approaches the female, who is four times his size. She scuttles away, but he creeps closer and closer. Finally, he takes hold of her with his spindly legs, climbs aboard and inserts his "penis" into her genital opening and discharges a jet of sperm. Then quite abruptly his legs curl underne...

By Douglas Main, LiveScienceYeti crabs don't comb their hair to look good they do it because they're hungry.These bizarre deep-sea animals grow their food in their own hair, trapping bacteria and letting it flourish there before "combing" it out and slurping it up. The crabs are found near cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, places where mineral-rich water spews out of the seafloor.Like many a...