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T. Boone Pickens Ditches Wind Power
While there is still so much money in natural gas, those turbines will have to wait.Once upon a time oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens conjured up a plan to build the world's biggest wind farm in the Texas...
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Google Love Story: Man Builds Android App To Propose To Girlfriend
Boy meets girl. Girl loves Android. Boy builds Android app. Andoid app impresses girl. Awwwwwwww. Call it a match made in heaven. Heaven, of course, being Google. New Jersey resident Jon C. Hodgson was...
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Banned Flame Retardants Are In Many Baby Products: Study
You may unwittingly be exposing your bundle of joy to toxic chemicals. What's a parent to do?Hide your children: If the BPA doesn't get them, the flame retardants will. A new study in Environmental...
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3 Ways Apps, Games, And Facebook Pages Are Combating Corruption
A Foursquare game for bribes, a Facebook page for traffic violators, and an app where police officers help reveal speed traps are powered by transparency--and shame. Mark Zuckerberg might serve as a...
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Crystal Ballin' With ... Drew Larner, CEO of Rdio
Fast Company introduces a new series of interviews, in which we ask CEOs and others to don the futurist's wizard hat and gaze into our crystal ball. Our first interview, on the future of music, is with...
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LinkedIn IPO Skyrockets, "Like" Buttons Stalk You, L.A. Noire A Hit, And More...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. LinkedIn IPO SkyrocketsDoubling in price right out of the gate, LinkedIn's stock price...
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Nokia Wants To Go Into Business With You
Nokia is now crowdsourcing creativity. "Invent With Nokia" is a new program wherein anyone can submit an idea, and if it results in a patented Nokia invention, you get a cut. Trust them.Do you have a...
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Amazon Sells More E-Books Than Paper Ones
E-books realize their unbound potential faster than expected as pixels push past paper in Amazon sales. Oh, and, hey, look! Kindles for sale!Since April the first, for every 100 print-and-paper books...
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Meet The App Man At AT&T
CTO John Donovan, left, sees digital water balloons as a fun primer on handset-to-handset apps—and a lure for wayward subscribers. | Photographs by Darren BraunAs leader of Donovan’s tech council,...
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And On The Eighth Day, God Created Apple
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...
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Wi-Fi-Connected Lightbulbs, Coming To Smart Homes In 2012
Not only will these new bulbs save you money every month, they'll be tons of fun for amateur lighting designers, and can even increase home security. A Wi-Fi connected lightbulb that'll cost you just...
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iFive: Microsoft Shuts Thinktank, Orange's NFC In U.K, Apple Signs Sony To...
1. Microsoft has closed its guerilla design/thinktank lab Pioneer Studios--the group behind the highly-praised but then cancelled Courier tablet concept. J Allard, the chap behind the original Xbox and...
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The Perfect (Wooden) Surfboard
Photograph by Jason MadaraSurf's up! A Maine studio returns to surfboard building's roots with a wooden, sustainable board."Surfers are so connected to nature, but they're divorced from the impact foam...
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"I'm A Climate Scientist," The Raunchy Climate Change Video
Sick of hearing that climate change doesn't exist from people who haven't studied the matter, climate scientists get together to fix the problem the only way they know how: hip-hop.There is nothing...
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This Week In Bots: Droids Evolve Language, Disney Researches Swarms,...
Robots, robots everywhere, and soon they'll begin to think. The tech behind our future android assistants evolves every minute. Here's the latest.LingodroidsOne conceit in the Star Wars universe is...
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How Apple Plans To Make Cloud-Based iTunes A Seamless Experience
An Apple patent gives us some clues about the cloud-based iTunes we're all expecting any moment now--namely, how it'll make streaming content a seamless experience. An Apple patent filed in late 2009...
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Olympic Gold Medalist, Acclaimed Author: Kids, Here's How You Win Doodle 4...
Over 100,000 entries. Millions and millions of votes cast. World-class judges. Five months of fierce competition. At stake: spoils and riches beyond the wildest imagination. A champion will be crowned,...
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iPads Are Mingling With TVs, While Kindles Get Busy In The Bedroom: Study
A survey reveals that 70% of slate-style computer owners fiddle with them while watching television. How long before we don't need one of those small screens at all?Good night and good luck, indeed....
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Meet Facebook's Journalist Ambassador (Yes, We Said Ambassador)
A 25-year-old Columbia Professor of Journalism, Vadim Lavrusik, is Mark Zuckerberg's media macher. Facebook now accounts for more than 5% of traffic for many major news outlets. As the Internet floods...
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Tim Burton Retrospective
A retrospective of Tim Burton, last year's Cannes jury president, comes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The show allows Tim's work to be seen in the broadest context of creative activity,"...
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