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Verizon LTE Restored, iPhone Royal Wedding Live Streaming, Al Gore's New...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.Microsoft Profits Jump 31%In the post-PC era, Microsoft's investment in Kinect helped...
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Why China's Carbon Emissions May Not Spiral Out Of Control
Your electric car might get you into heaven, but it's not going to save the Earth if China keeps up at its current pace. But while China may remain the world's largest energy consumer and CO2...
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iFive: Sony Hackers Have Card Data, PayPal Buys Fig Card, Amazon Ditches S....
This chart, from Trendistic, shows just how wild Twitter is going over the Royal Wedding--and that's just for the word "wedding" -- "Will" and "Kate" are even more dramatic.1. Hackers involved in the...
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Bill Gates Takes On Education's Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games
As states scramble to understand new educational standards, Gates eyes an opening for video games. Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus...
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Google's Click-To-Call Spurs Big-Ticket-Item Buying Spree
Google's mobile ads let consumers click a phone number and immediately call an advertiser. You'd be surprised who's using it.A year ago, the Google ads team launched a new feature for mobile phones...
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Google Now Promoting Patents Searches
Augmenting the millions of different types of data Google now searches, it's just added a new feature to its sidebar: The ability to search patents. It's a powerful tweak, especially given the huge...
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KFC's Misguided Attempt At Eco-Friendly Change
When a fast-food chain like KFC says that it is opening an eco-friendly restaurant, our ears perk up. Is the fried chicken vendor offering pesticide-free salads along with hormone-free chicken?...
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Zynga Goes Global, PopCap Goes Social: Casual Gaming Gets Serious
The casual games space is heating up--and two major acquisitions this week point the way forward.Zynga is poised to go global on a greater scale. This week it announced it had acquired Wonderland...
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The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone
The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body. Plus it tastes really nasty. FACT: Water can be too clean to drink--so clean that...
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This Week In Bots: Ball Catching, Japan Aid, Another Beggar, And Tweenbots
Robots, robots everywhere, and they're even starting to think. Here's our round-up of the news about our coming robot overlor--we mean, servants--that has surfaced this week.Robot catches a ball, hints...
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Why Coca-Cola Isn't Ditching BPA
BPA, an estrogen-mimicking chemical found in food and drink can linings, adhesives, and many plastics, has been repeatedly linked to breast cancer, early puberty, infertility, and other health...
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Conducting A Microbot Orchestra
What's that new music to scientists' ears? Tech that makes tiny bots less sticky. Scientists hold great hopes for microbots--tiny robots that, when working in concert, could have a wide range of...
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Intel Teases Its After-Thunderbolt Connector, With Laser Power
Intel tech is powering the Thunderbolt computer connector that may revolutionize how we hook up gear--but Intel is already working on its successor, due in 2015. It's five times faster still, and uses...
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How Apple's Moral Compass Works
This past week, Apple rejected yet another seemingly offensive iPhone app: Smuggle Truck. The app originally asked players to smuggle an immigrant-filled truck across the desert--a satiric take on the...
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This Guy Will Keep The Next Mark Zuckerberg From Dropping Out
Harvard Innovation Center's new director, Gordon Jones, wants to broaden the definition of entrepreneurialism to include not just tech startups, but all fields: lawyers, business people, Kennedy School...
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The Backpack That Gives You X-Ray Vision
From the fascinating-yet-creepy files, a British firm has unveiled a backpack-mounted radar that allows users to see through walls. The device, the Prism 200c, is marketed to law enforcement and the...
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Change Generation: Jason Ross And JackThreads Take The Sample Sale Online
Jason Ross is the founder of JackThreads, "Where guys can find exceptional value on top tier Men's fashion." Ross dissolved a failing Sports merchandise business and created JackThreads, acquired last...
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Groupon Dumps Trump, FaceTime For Android, Google TV Tanks, And More...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.Verizon's Solution To Mobile Privacy: A StickerAfter the location tracking files of...
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Global Military Dominance Through Health Care And Solar Panels
Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony. Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs...
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Dismissed Oprah Network Chief Christina Norman Was Ambivalent From The Start...
Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded...
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