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Breach Of The Week: The Simple Tech Behind The U.K.’s Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal

British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.

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Genius Breakthrough In Clean Water: Plain Old Plastic Bottles

Leaving water out in a clear bottle in the sun is a free and easy way to kill pathogens. Now it's time to let the people who bad water is killing know that the solution is at their fingertips. Researchers in developing countries have discovered a free

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David Stark Makes (Party) Scenes

David Stark, Event Producer #wrapper .p { display:inline-block; float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:256px; margin-bottom:232px; margin-right:75px; width:230px; } #wrapper .p-bottom { display:inline-block; float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:256px; margin-bottom:232px; margin-right:75px; margin-top:35px; width:230px; } #wrapper .p-bottom-2 { display:inline-block; float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:256px; margin-bottom:-45px; margin-right:75px; margin-top:-25px; width:230px; } #wrapper p { line-height:15px !important; font-size:14px !important; } #wrapper p strong { font-family:arial, helvitica; } #wrapper { background-image:url(http://images.fastcompany.com/magazine/157/wanted/157-wanted-70-david-stark-art-installation-in.jpg); height:1460px; padding-top:210px; } MANY MAY HOPE TO freewheel through summer, but for New York event producer David Stark, business is just heating up.

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Pinkwashing Is The New Greenwashing

Companies that tout their support for breast cancer research are often the same companies whose products may be causing breast cancer. But you won't hear them mention that when they slap pink ribbons on everything. Consumers, beware: You may already be watching out for greenwashing (unsubstantiated "green" claims) but you probably don't pay much attention to pinkwashing--when companies that use chemicals known to cause cancer position themselves as leaders in the fight against breast cancer.

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This Week In Bots: Open-Source Learning Bots, Sensitive Robo-Skin, Robot Soccer, Chocolate Printer Bot, And More

Qbo Open-Source Bot Par Excellence Qbo is a kind of smaller, cheaper PR2 --he's an open-source robot platform (using the ROS operating system developed for PR2), which could aid robot research as well as educating students in robotics and computer programming.

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Shopkick Switches To For-Profit Status, Sees Surge In Charitable Giving

The popular geo-location app grew its total user base as it transitioned from nonprofit to for-profit--having more users to give to charity in the process. In a fascinating case study of how the for-profit industry can sometimes make a greater social impact than the nonprofit world, Shopkick , a popular geo-location app, has paradoxically created a more charitable community since it decided to ditch its charity business model and focus on giving people free stuff. The app rewards users with virtual currency for completing various check-in tasks at selected retailers which can then be redeemed for products or used to give equivalently to a charity.

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DHS: Imported Consumer Tech Contains Hidden Hacker Attack Tools

A top Department of Homeland Security official has admitted to Congress that imported software and hardware components are being purposely spiked with security-compromising attack tools by unknown foreign parties.

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Marketing the Hot Dog

The advent of Connecticut creating an official Hot Dog Trail to encourage tubular-meat tourism begs the question: Does the all-American meal need a boost?

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