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How CNN And YouTube Forged A Presidential-Debate Partnership
CNN runs one of the world's most advanced newsrooms: Holograms stream over the airwaves, touchscreens dot the walls, and reporters and producers practically have iPads attached to their hips. Tonight,...
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China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments
In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East,...
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Google's Biggest Clean Energy Investment Ever Is Going To Put Solar On Your...
Google has poured hundreds of millions of bucks into clean power over the last few months. But their newest announcement isn't about utilities, it's about getting solar panels on as many houses as...
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Coffee, Tea, Samsung Galaxy Tablet? American Airlines Goes Way Beyond...
The marketing coup comes at a good time for Samsung, as it leaps with both feet into the iPad-dominated tablet fray. Imagine you're on a plane. The flight attendant is strolling down the aisle offering...
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Gulf Wild Cuts Down On Seafood Fraud By Electronically Tagging Fish
That grouper on your plate may not be grouper at all--unless it has an electronic tag saying otherwise. That grouper you had for dinner last night may not actually be grouper at all. According to a...
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Google TV Hopes To Click With Social Recommendations
Google TV's about to get a social discovery injection, courtesy of Redux--a website-based content discovery system--that could help transform it into a friendlier, customer-curated place.Redux, a...
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iFive: Turkey Attacks Anonymous, Apple Settles With Nokia, LulzSec Hacks...
1. Turkish police say they have detained 32 suspected local members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective, which was recently protesting Turkish censorship of Net activities by attacking government...
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Facebook's IPO, Angry Birds Gets "Magic Places," Canvas Raises $3M, And More...
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook Prepares $100 Billion IPO (Report) Move over, Royal Wedding and Barack Obama...
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Visualizing Childrens' Plans For The City Of The Future In Pop-Up Book Form
Ask a kid what they think the future will look like, and you'll get some strange answers. But if you actually listen, you might get some good ideas.Out of the mouths of babes, the saying goes. Taking...
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The Onion's Digital Director Baratunde Thurston: News Is Absurd
From Jon Stewart's The Daily Show to The Onion to Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, fake news has become as much a part of the national dialogue as the real news it parodies. During the 2008...
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Peeling Out Sessions: MIT's Robotic Co-Drivers Can Save Your Skin In Emergencies
Before we get self-driving cars and road-trains, MIT researchers think emergency co-drivers that only take control in dangerous situations are the near-future for robot driving. At least while we still...
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What Keeps Your Utility Company Up At Night
It's not profits or the end of coal (they're pretty confident about both those things). Rather, it's a dwindling resource that you wouldn't expect. There are endless aspects of our energy economy to...
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In Iceland, The Crowd Takes A Shot At "We The People"
The same country that helped give Bjork her voice hands over its guiding document to everyday citizens. But at its heart, the experiment in social media confuses democracy with transparency, a leading...
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Apple Rumor Roundup: New MacBook Airs, The Perilous Future Of MobileMe, And More
New MacBook AirsWe've wondered when the MacBook Air was going to get some attention with new CPUs and Thunderbolt, and now it seems they're pegged for a "late June" arrival. 380,000 units will be...
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If Google Maps Explores China, Will It Mean More Freedom Or Less?
Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?Yesterday, Dow Jones...
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Want A Website Brought Down? Just Dial 614-LULZSEC
Hacktivist collective LulzSec's 614 area-code phone line is answered by a recorded message from Pierre Dubois--possibly the name of the seemingly French cartoon character that's been popping up in...
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Forget 3-D Net-Connected HDTV; We Want Smell-o-Vision
Researchers at the University of California and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea have been looking at the technology for two years now, and have come up with a proof-of-concept...
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Dogfish Head Founder's Unique Recipe For Creating A Great Beer Company
Where else but at a Fast Company event can White House assistant chef and food policy advisor Sam Kass trade beer tips with Sam Calagione, the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery?[video_twistage 1]...
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Creative Marketing For Mom And Pop Shops
Walmart might move in down the street and underprice you, but they can't take away your story. The stories of three small businesses might help you outfox your biggest competitors. Any business can be...
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iFive: LulzSec Hacks CIA, Facebook's Anti-iOS Plans, Location Privacy Bill,...
Those thin gray streaks in the image are the high-altitude plumes of ash spreading across the Pacific Ocean from the erupting Chilean volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, as imaged by NASA. The ash continues...
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