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What Today's Sinking Cities Tell Us About The Future Of Rising Seas
We've already seen Manhattan swallowed by surging waves as glaciers collapse and drive sea levels sky-high--on video screens and in nightmarish daydreams about human-driven climate change. But what...
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Why Geoengineering Doesn't Make Economic Sense
Modern humans have, up until this point, done a pretty horrible job of cutting down on the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmopshere to stave off climate change. As we inch ever...
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With Microsoft's Patent Battle, Innovation Goes On Trial
Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation? A look at Microsoft's case before the Supreme Court, and how it could...
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Pre-Teens Swarm Facebook, Google Map Maker For U.S., HBO Live Streaming, And...
T-Mobile's Facebook VoIP AppBobsled permits free friend-to-friend calling through Facebook. For now, Bobsled is voice only and requires the recipient to also have the app installed. [Updated: 1:20]...
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What The Scandal Of "Three Cups of Tea" Author Greg Mortenson Is Really About
Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing.The 60 Minutes expose of much-lauded author and...
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MIT Creates The One Video Game You'll Be Thrilled To See Your Kid Get Hooked On
"As game designers," MIT's Scot Osterweil says, "we're convinced that game playing is a lot like science: There is problem-solving, exploration, collaboration, hypothesizing, testing and learning from...
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Meet Frida, The Robot That'll Staff The 24-Hour Production Line
Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that's designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line. It's a good thing that'll alleviate employee...
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How Foursquare's Improved Photo Sharing Does Color One Better
Much-hyped and criticized startup Color is the high-school prom service of photo-sharing apps. Color lets partygoers kick the disposable camera habit--all photos can be shared in real-time, without...
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Revolution In U.S. Water Use
Fact: The United States uses more water in a day than it uses oil in a year. In four days, the United States uses more water than the world uses oil in a year. Imagine if water got anything like the...
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E-Cig Maker Develops Foursquare-Style Check-In For Hookup Hunting Nicotine...
The founder of Blu Cigs, battery-powered electronic cigarettes that mimic the look and feel of traditional cigs and deliver vaporized nicotine to users, believes he's discovered an innovation that...
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Trove, WaPo Labs's Personalized News Site, Plays Hot-Or-Not With Articles
Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video.The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with...
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WikiLeaks, Twitter Records Case Heads Back To Court
Associates of WikiLeaks are forging ahead in their battle to prevent the government from accessing information about their use of Twitter.On Friday, the case to bar federal prosecutors from accessing...
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James Cameron And Eric Schmidt On Why They "Visioneer" For X Prize
An inside look at X Prize's all-star brainstorming session.The X Prize Foundation has grabbed A-list investors and CNN headlines for their industry-creating multi-million dollar innovation...
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iFive: iPhone 5 In September, Intel's Record Income, Future ARM Tablet Chips,...
1. It just got about as official as it's likely to get: Agreeing with information obtained by Fast Company from inside Apple, Reuters has just confirmed, from "three people with direct knowledge" of...
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Do Google And Bing Actually Return Billions Of Search Results?
Search for "New York Times" on Google, and you'll get 126,000,000 results (in about 0.14 seconds). Search the same query on Bing? Prepare for 491,000,000 results. These astronomical figures appear...
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China Beating The U.S. In Electric Vehicle Race (But Maybe Not For Long)
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: $15 billion - The amount China has invested in electric vehicles and infrastructure.The U.S doesn't have much over China at this point. Sure, we have breathable air,...
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First Offshore Wind Farm In The U.S. Gets Approval After Decade Of Red Tape
After a decade of dealing with environmental and regulatory red tape, the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. received final approval this week to start construction. The $1 billion, 110-turbine,...
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Amazon Unveils Kindle Lending With 11,000 Libraries: Does This Mark The End...
Today, Amazon announced a new feature for its Kindle e-reader called Library Lending, which will enable users to borrow e-books from more than 11,000 libraries in the U.S. The feature will launch...
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Obama Facebook Friends Zuck Bunch In Palo Alto, iPhone Tracking Movement,...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Obama To Host Facebook Town HallAt 1:45 p.m. PST, the President will respond to...
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First Came iPhone's Thunder, Now GPS Makers Ride The Lightning
With the rise of GPS-enabled touchscreen phones like the iPhone, you'd think that the future for stand-alone GPS makers looks bleak. Except that these companies are being surprisingly agile, and are...
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