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President's Social Media Team Goes After Obama Debt Rivals On Twitter
President Obama's social media team unleashed a torrent of tweets today, specifically calling out Republicans opposing his debt ceiling plan. President Obama's social media team unleashed a hailstorm...
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Quirky.com Comes To TV, Twitter Flagging NSFW, Spotify Shakes Up U.K. ISPs,...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.The Pawn Stars for Aspiring Inventors. There's a reality show for just about everyone, from clothing designers to...
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Four Strategies To De-Suck Your Commute
Getting to work can be inhumanly stressful, boring, or logistically tricky--or, sometimes, all three. Here are four ways to arrive at work calmer, smarter, and without a lame excuse for being late....
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5 Things Lady Gaga Can Teach Marketers About Community Building
What do Lady Gaga and direct-to-consumer marketing have in common? The answer is a lot.Building communities all starts with finding a common thread that brings people together. Experiences help define...
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Sun-Less Solar Cells Could Make Energy From Anything Hot
Photovoltaic cells that convert heat, not sunlight, to electricity may turn out to be the solution for capturing all the energy we waste through heat.Photovoltaic cells are best known for turning...
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Adobe's Edge HTML5 Web Tool Blazes A Trail To The Post-Flash Internet
Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash. Adobe tells Fast Company why it's the tip of...
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GM's Autonomous Pod Cars Are Coming To A Megacity Near You
GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smartphone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They're almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up....
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Are You A Victim Of Phantom Vibration Syndrome?
That's right--when you reach for your cell phone, though you are unprovoked by a beep or a hum, you are a slave of biology. And of our modern-day dependency on gadgets. You might laugh, but do you find...
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Drivers Who Brake With Their Brains
You might think you have lightning reflexes, but the time between thinking you need to brake and your foot pushing the pedal can be life or death. What if we eliminated the (literal) middle man? Ever...
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Airbnb's Worst Tenant Ever, Apple vs. Samsung, Carbonite IPO, Hulu's Ad...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Airbnb's Worst Tenant Ever. Warning to users of social-accommodation service Airbnb: You may not want to let Faith...
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MTV's 30th Anniversary
Monday, August 01 MTV's allergy to nostalgia isn't a pose but a savvy strategy for a channel whose median viewer just stopped having to ask his older brother to buy him beer. Since MTV's 30th...
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The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens...
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Syrians Upload Ramadan Massacre Footage Onto YouTube With Pen Cameras And...
After Syrian troops began shelling civilian targets in the city of Hama, brave activists used smuggled phones and sympathetic allies abroad to upload grainy, graphic warfare footage onto YouTube.On...
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Brains And Bots Deep Inside Yahoo's CORE Grab A Billion Clicks
A sophisticated personalization algorithm--combined with ever-savvier editors--has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo's home page to the tune of a 270% increase in clicks since 2009. Here’s what...
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Labels, Promoters, Bands Turn To Turntable.fm, The New Listening Party
The social-equipped, virtual listening room is a hit with users. Now music industry types are turning to Turntable.fm to promote shows, bands, and albums. The promoters of this year's Fun Fun Fun Fest...
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Want To Clean Up An Oil Spill? There Are Some Microbes Looking For A Meal
A lingering mystery of the Gulf oil spill is where the oil actually went. It seems now that the microbes in the water made a meal of it, but that doesn't mean we can rely on them for the next spill....
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Verizon, AmEx, And The Race To Control The (Possible) Billion-Dollar Mobile...
Verizon and AmEx have plans to let customers order items simply by typing in their phone number. It's all about integrating AmEx's Serve platform into the phones and tablets Verizon sells--an expansion...
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Red Hot Redbox Seeing 40 Rentals Per Second: Infographic
Only days after reporting $363.9 million in quarterly revenue and $79 million in operating income, up 34% and 99% year-over-year, respectively, DVD kiosk company Redbox has released some more...
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100 Year Starship Takes The Long View Of Interstellar Travel
NASA and DARPA are combining forces to create a program that will have humans traveling to Alpha Centauri in 100 years. It's just a question of motivating multiple generations of scientists to work on...
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Hacking The Big Apple
When is a city like a startup? Last weekend, the City of New York hosted a hackathon to re-envision its website, NYC.gov. Here's what geeks from Manhattan, NY, to Manhattan, Kansas, had to say about...
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