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DIY U: The Future Of Learning [Video]
[video_twistage 1]The future of learning is open--and it's in your hands. This video series, based in part on my book DIY U, explains that while the higher education bubble may be overblown, there is...
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The Uptight Citizens' Brigade
Can TV's Ashton Kutcher, Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd, tech giant Intel, and random people on the street find the gooey center of viral hilarity? At the very least, we'll laugh and learn while...
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How A Simple Text Message System Is Helping Latino Immigrants Save Serious Cash
Juntos Finanzas, a budget-by-text program started at Stanford with a group of janitorial workers, is part Mint.com, part Weight Watchers. Now it's making real changes in the lives of lower-income...
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Unpacking The Secret $2 Million Internet In A Suitcase
The U.S. government's newest tool for global information sharing could have big implications in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and beyond. So how exactly does this technology work?In a story yesterday the New...
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Mozilla Chief: Government Alone Can't Solve Online Privacy
"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla...
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iFive: IMF Network Hacked, iPhone Rumors, Anonymous' India Campaign Censored,...
Area 51 doesn't exist officially, but newly declassified images show an exciting glimpse into its secretive past: An A12 aircraft (shown under radar testing here), stealthy forerunner to the amazing...
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The Boss Can Build Apps Now
Appirio's framework puts the geeky power to build iOS apps in the hands of any enterprise user. Goodbye, T&E reports. Hello, "ExpenseVille."Appirio's just released a software package that lets...
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Road Trains--Not Driverless Cars--Are The Future Of Hands-Free Driving
Before we get cars driven fully by computers, we'll have platoons of vehicles lead by a professional driver that let you take your eyes off the road and save fuel. They'll be on the road in Europe by...
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Blue Ventures Wins $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Challenge For Its Economic...
By connecting conservation with wealth, Blue Ventures has found a way to convince fishing communities in the developing world that saving fish doesn't mean starvation--it means getting rich.There are...
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Generation Xbox: PlayStation Is The New Playing Catch
The Nintendo generation wants to bond with their children on their old digital stomping grounds. "On the menu of things to do with your kid, it's not the best choice," says MIT Professor and Alone...
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iPad Makes Calls, Microsoft's Interactive Ad Move, Cheap Gigabit Internet...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.Hacked iPad Makes Phone CallsThe Apple hackers that brought FaceTime to the iPhone 3GS...
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Two Wheels Better Than Four For Students' Mad Max-Esque EV City Car
Australian students have welded together a two-wheeled electric vehicle monster that could have come straight out of a surreal eco-remix of Mad Max. It's cheap, efficient, and the future of city...
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Caffeine! And Other Ways To Manage Your Busy Schedule From Jeffrey Hayzlett
[video_twistage 1] Balancing a successful career and personal life isn't easy, especially when you're on the road for part of the year. Now try writing a best-selling book on top of that, and you'll...
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Bill Gates Funds Human Waste To Biofuel Project In Ghana
Developing countries lack both clean water and clean energy sources. By converting soiled water into energy and clean water, a new project could wipe away both problems. Waste to fuel facilities are...
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Show Me The Money: iOS Developers Also Code For Android, But Prefer Apple's Cash
A survey of developers at Apple's WWDC shows they all love the platform. No surprises there. But Apple analyst Gene Munster, who carried out the survey, also dug up the fact that 50% of iOS coders also...
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A Former Choirboy Shows Us The Future Of Live Music
For the latest (mic-stand-kicking) edition of our future-gazing series Crystal Ballin' we spoke with Ian Hogarth, CEO of Songkick. "In my vision of the future, hipsters aren’t obsolete," he tells us....
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Power-Generating Artificial Leaf Moves Closer to Reality
Mimicking the highly efficient power-generation process of photosynthesis, an artificial leaf could change how the world gets energy. And new developments at MIT mean it could happen in the next few...
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Facebook Hits A Wall
Usage data suggests that something unusual has happened to Facebook's membership growth in the U.S. and Canada in the last couple of months ... it's shriveled. Facebook may have exhaled just before an...
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Why Kevin Systrom Turned Down Zuckerberg, Left Twitter To Start Instagram
Kevin Systrom launched popular photo-sharing app Instagram in October--and already it boasts around 5 million users. By comparison, it took years for startups such as Facebook and Twitter to reach...
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Crowdsourcing The Documentary: Egyptian Filmmaker Uses Twitter To Gather 300...
Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution. Where better to turn for footage than the people who were there?"The role of social media is to get everyone to know that we...
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