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How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This...
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch...
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Introducing The Juicebox: A Simple, Sexy Smartphone Charging Station
For most smartphone users obsessed with having round-the-clock access to text messages, apps, and email, running out of battery juice has become almost as painful as a lost wallet. But a new solution...
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Julian Assange To Host TV Talk Show, Google Reverses Real Name Policy, Orange...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Facebook Added £2.2 Billion To U.K. GDP. Facebook is turning out to be a mammoth business provider in the U.K.--according to new...
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How Words With Friends Beat Scrabble At Its Own Game
The creators of the social Scrabble-like smartphone and tablet game offer insight into their reinvention of board game night. In July, Megan Lawless married Jasper Jasperse, whom she met as a random...
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How House Of Mikko Analyzes Women And Recommends Beauty Products
In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue, we talk with Kimberly Dillon, the Founder and CEO of House of Mikko. What inspired Dillon to create the makeup recommendation...
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The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA Meaningless
The Pirate Bay loves to be controversial--how could it not be, with its very existence an affront to much of the political mechanisms of American government? And now the organization is suggesting...
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The Weigh-In: What's The Best Way To Motivate Your Employees?
Motivation is a hot topic year-round, but particularly in January, the month of fresh starts, checklists, and lofty goals. It's the time of year we try to figure out how to prod our employees to...
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Leadership Lessons From Community Maven Tara Hunt: When Not To Listen To The...
Any entrepreneur or community-building connector worth their salt should know when to crowdsource, and when to listen to their inner voice.Tara Hunt is having a bit of a disconnect. Which is odd...
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Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80...
Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952. The biggest change: our first-to-invent system, which favors...
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RapidShare Attorney: If We're Shut Down Like Megaupload, Then YouTube,...
RapidShare is one of the world's most popular file-hosting sites, and many have wondered whether the site could be next on the feds' list of targets after Megaupload.There's been near nuclear fallout...
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Apple Beats Estimates Again: $46.33 Billion In Revenues, $13.06 Billion In...
Apple's released the summary of its finances for the first quarter of 2012--the first real quarter when Tim Cook was in power immediately after Steve Jobs's death. The figures are amazing, confounding...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Touches On Kindle Fire, Android, Windows Phone
In the world of boring corporate earnings calls, Apple's investor Q&A sessions are about as exciting as it gets--the equivalent hardcore pornography for most tech geeks. Offering a rare peek...
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Google Privacy Changes To Unite User Tracking Info, Yahoo Posts Tepid Q4...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. O2 Found Sharing Phone Numbers With Websites. U.K. mobile service provider O2 is sending the phone numbers of its customers to the...
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3 Secrets To Recruiting Tech Talent In Tough Markets
Running a tech company and looking for Ruby developers? Got a “great idea” for a startup, and all you need is a programmer? Congratulations! You’ve just joined the 10,000 other geeks in the same...
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RapidShare Responds To Megaupload Comparisons: Only 5% Of Our Files Are Pirated
RapidShare attorney Daniel Raimer explains why the amount of pirated content a service hosts is not the proper metric for deciding whether it deserves the same fate as Megaupload.Don't try to compare...
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Unmasking A Digital Pirate On Amazon
A Kuwaiti national using fake names and selling others' copyrighted stories in the Kindle Store sheds light on black hat hacker forums--and the theft, taboo sex, and swindles festering in the recesses...
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Here's Why You Should Care (A Lot) About The Supreme Court's GPS Ruling
You might not be suspected of trafficking cocaine and your car might not have a warrantless GPS placed in it by police. But the legal issues raised by the Supreme Court matter for everything you do...
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Hasbro Is No Has-Been: Board Games Surge In The Digital Age
Risk has come to Facebook. Scrabble is one of the top iPhone apps. And several board games are enjoying a long life on game consoles. In the digital age, you better be ready to Hasbro-down.A long time...
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Apple's Earnings By The (Holy S*%#!) Numbers
Over $13 billion in profits. A hop-skip-and-a-jump shy of 50% profit margins. $4 billion in pay-outs to app developers. Revenues up 73%. 37 million iPhones sold. One new CEO and an armload of...
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WotWentWrong App Gathers Big Data From Bad Daters
Finally, an app that systematically destroys your self-esteem!No romcom has meant more to my life than He's Just Not That Into You, Ken Kwapis' 2009 magnum opus about how, sometimes, there's just no...
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