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New study suggests products "tout benefits that don't exist," cause nasty side effects
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Read More »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 yourself reaching for a vibrating phone in your pocket, only to discover that it's not there?
Read More »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
Read More »Hacking the Grocery Store
Caitlin Shetterly, 36, knows how to eat on the cheap: In 2009, her husband, Dan, lost his job and the couple and their newborn baby moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, to live with Shetterly's mother until they could get back on their feet. Her new book Made For You and Me chronicles the family’s journey, including how they managed to eat well—and organic—on very little. (Their grocery bill, including feeding two adults, a baby and two pets, was about $88/week.) Here's how they did it
Read More »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 when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines?
Read More »More Female Angels Equals Bigger Investments
When an angel investor group has more than 10 percent women, the number or size of investments increases, says new research.
Read More »Video: Free birth control part of new health guidelines
CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports on historic new health rules that require health insurance companies to cover birth control for women. Then, Chris Wragge talks to White House Deputy Senior Adviser Stephanie Cutter about the new rules and the history of how they came into effect.
Read More »Borderline personality disorder blamed for Brandon Marshall’s troubles
27-year-old Miami Dolphins superstar sought treatment after April altercation with wife
Read More »Fasting not needed before kids’ cholesterol tests, study suggests
New research suggests that children's cholesterol levels can be accurately gauged without need to schedule return visit to doctor
Read More »Carbonite IPO, Hulu’s Ad-Free Plans, Iceland’s Crowdsourced Constitution Is Ready, iPhone Maker’s Million-Robot Plan
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Carbonite's Cloudy IPO . Carbonite, a paid cloud-storage warehouse service, is prepping for an IPO--making the most of growing awareness about cloud technology, and before competitors like Amazon or Apple seal up much of the consumer-facing industry
Read More »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.
Read More »Pay Yourself and Prosper
Too many entrepreneurs neglect to make themselves a priority in their own business.
Read More »Inc.com Turns 15
15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com On a warm midsummer day in 1996, a group of four editors huddled around a computer in a Boston office. Matthew Berk, a webmaster, "hit a button and launched the site, Inc.com," explains Bob LaPointe, Inc.'s current president, who was at the time a vice president of Inc
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