Cities get faster and more productive as they get bigger and last forever. Companies get slower and more boring, and then they go out of business. Can companies change that model?
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Feed SubscriptionBrains 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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Syrians Upload Ramadan Massacre Footage Onto YouTube With Pen Cameras And Smuggled Tech
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 Sunday Syrian tanks assaulted Hama and shelled civilian targets; at least 70 are confirmed dead and hundreds more seriously injured. Observers are calling it the " Ramadan Massacre " since it occurred on the eve of the Muslim holiday.
Read More »Incontinence in men: 14 must-know facts
Think women are the only ones who wet themselves? Think again
Read More »Is Michael Douglas still smoking despite throat cancer?
Experts say smoking after cancer diagnosis surprisingly common - and a very bad idea
Read More »Chewing more helps people eat less, study says
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study says chewing food 40 times cut calorie intake 12 percent
Read More »Video: Wine can help prevent sunburn, research shows
New research shows that both wine and grapes can help prevent sunburn, as well as other skin problems. Terrell Brown reports.
Read More »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 anniversary is likely to pass like its 25th, which barely earned an on-air nod, we've traced the brand from its colicky infancy through its earnest preteen years and wayward adolescence to its present as a Snooki-faced memento mori for anyone old enough to remember Dan Cortese's bandannas.
Read More »Video: Conjoined twins pray for help
CBS News RAW: The 14 year-old conjoined twins Saba and Farah Shakeel from Ajmer, India offer prayers at a shrine as their health deteriorates.
Read More »Notable Features Through the Years
Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content, and walks us through the highlights. I joined Inc
Read More »Buyer’s Remorse Over Windows
I bought a laptop yesterday. I had to. I've been limping by using a little netbook with Windows XP for the past couple of years (I know, I know, it's the cobbler's children who have no shoes).
Read More »Video: "Start Strong" program advises teens on healthy breakups
Chris Wragge speaks with "Early Show" contributor and psychologist Jennifer Harstein about a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored initiative that counsels teens how to break up healthily.
Read More »"SlutWalkers" vs. sex abuse: 19 provocative photos
Worldwide protests aim to show rape victims haven't "asked for it"
Read More »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?
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