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When a family that has been distilling genever in Holland since 1691 comes out with their first new gin in 40 years, one has to take notice. It was Carlolus H.J

When a family that has been distilling genever in Holland since 1691 comes out with their first new gin in 40 years, one has to take notice. It was Carlolus H.J

Sisley, Parisian skincare line known for its use of natural, plant-based ingredients, debuted its first men’s collection.

Sisley, Parisian skincare line known for its use of natural, plant-based ingredients, debuted its first men’s collection. At $265, Sisle

In its ongoing quest to keep pace with BMW’s famously quick “M” cars and Audi’s high-performance “S” and “RS” models, Mercedes-Benz has—via its in-house speed shop, AMG—taken the sledgehammer approach: Add power, power, and more power. And the entry-luxury C-Class range has seen its share of AMG-engineered overachievers, including the ...

In its ongoing quest to keep pace with BMW’s famously quick “M” cars and Audi’s high-performance “S” and “RS” models, Mercedes-Benz has—via its in-house speed shop, AMG—taken the sledgehammer approach: Add power, power, and more power. And the entry-luxury C-Class range has seen its share of AMG-engineered overachievers, including the ...

Conscious that as leader in online advertising its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies . Just as the U.S. authorities tighten up their stance against piracy and counterfeiting online, Google has revealed that it's taking a number of steps to "tune" its systems to "keep out the bad guys" who use its systems to advertise counterfeit goods and services.

Last week, Fast Company had the chance to sit in on a venture-capital pitch session featuring a number of startups that have in the past participated in the Cleantech Open , a series of competitions that provides funding and advice to cleantech startups. Below, we look at three of the companies with the most compelling pitches. Fenix International This startup designs distributed, small-scale micro power generation and storage solutions in a box.

Last week, Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan indicated that HTML5 would eventually replace Adobe Flash. Along with Mozilla Firefox, every browser maker out there seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of HTML5, a term that has become the most overused buzzword in the tech industry. But HTML5 is more than just the "trend de jour," says Ryan Gavin, senior director of Internet Explorer

Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from petroleum-based materials and 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.

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What do cloud computing, Bill Gates, and Schrodinger have in common? They are all contributing to the success of Nimbus , a biopharmaceutical company that leverages cloud computing (courtesy of Schrodinger, a computational drug-design company) to quickly discover medicines for difficult-to-tackle disease targets. This month, Nimbus scored an undisclosed amount of funding from Bill Gates and Dr.

The iPad 2 is getting all sorts of praise, but something interesting is emerging: Are its light weight, large screen and twin cameras perfectly positioned to make the iPad an Augmented Reality giant? Augmented Reality apps have slowly proliferated on smartphones, bringing a novelty and genuine usefulness to some data streams that are overlaid on reality through the device's rear cameras, but now there are tablet computers with rear cameras, too.

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan shortened Earth's day by 1.8 millionths of a second. While this might sound striking, perhaps even scary, don't panic: Earth is shifting slightly all the time, owing mostly to atmospheric and ocean currents. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan on March 11 shortened Earth's day by 1.8 millionths of a second, according to NASA scientists