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In the September issue of Scientific American , Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser describes how education and entrepreneurship can make or break cities.
Read More »LulzSec Leaks 62,000 Passwords, Usernames For Unknown Sites
Until now, the antics of LulzSec have seemed more or less harmless (depending on where you draw the line on the criminality of White Hat hacking), but with the release of 62,000 usernames and passwords to unlisted sites, LulzSec has got personal. LulzSec claims to have hit the CIA this week , and may also have again penetrated web security at the Senate's website, and an earlier LulzSec leak of over 20,000 usernames and passwords was confined to pornographic websites--headline-earning efforts indeed. But today's 62,000-plus list actually doesn't mention which site the passwords and login credentials are connected to
Read More »iPad Makes Calls, Microsoft’s Interactive Ad Move, Cheap Gigabit Internet Service, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.
Read More »MI6 Punks Al Qaeda With Cupcakes, Japan’s Hawaiian Shirt Energy Plan, U.S. Archives "Wikipedian In Residence," And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. MI6 Punks Al Qaeda With Cupcakes There's going to be a lot of frowns in the delicious smelling kitchens of
Read More »Airbnb Eyes A Billion, DARPA’s New Watchtower, Google Tracks Disease Outbreaks, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.
Read More »Web Advertising Hits Record High, Torrents For iPhone, Web Giants Vs. Gov At eG8, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day Web Ads Hit Record High In a sign that this bloody never-ending recession is indeed coming to an end, marketers are now spending record amounts on web ads, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. At $7.3 billion dollars, ads have spiked 23% year over year. To celebrate, we suggest actually clicking on a banner ad today to say, "Thanks, free Internet!" Download Torrents On iPhone (Jail-Break Only) Wish you could break the law all the time
Read More »Zynga IPO, Zuckerberg On The Middle East And Regulation, MacBooks Earn Top Marks, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.
Read More »How To Stop Spam, Google’s Financial Advisor Program, Microsoft Hooks Students With Free Xboxes, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.
Read More »Tumblr’s Insane Growth, New MacBook Airs, "Hulu For Magazines," And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Tumblr's Insane Growth "Exponential" growth is a term often bantered around with little mathematical accuracy
Read More »MoonPlayer Takes On Pandora, AirBnB Gets Cash Infusion, WNBC Goes 24/7, And More..
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Watch Out Pandora Pandora is great--until it foists upon you some lame, unknown artist totally out of left field. MoonPlayer , a sleek, easy-to-use free-streaming service, aims to fix that frustration by playing only artists you select.
Read More »Turkey To Filter Words Like "Blonde," White House Cybersecurity Plan, Tweets "Vital" To Japanese Health, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. "Turks Protest Internet Censorship" Pre-emptive protests against Internet censorship have sprung up in over 40 cities to rally against the Turkish government's voluntary obscenity filters. The tiered system plans to have four levels: children’s profile, family profile, domestic or standard profile, and may ban words like "blonde" and "sister-in-law." Concerned citizens do have reason to worry that such measures could lead to censorship, as Turkey already bans a number of popular sites, including YouTube.
Read More »Facebook Pays For Ad Views, Video Games Are Officially Art, Bendable Phones, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Facebook Pays Users To Watch Ads Facebook
Read More »Verizon LTE Restored, iPhone Royal Wedding Live Streaming, Al Gore’s New Interactive Book, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Verizon Can Hear You...24 Hours Later Verizon's 4G LTE data network has just come back online after a 24-hour blackout
Read More »Playstation’s Prolonged Shutdown, Goobye Friendster, A ‘Condom’ For Facebook, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Geek Crisis, Day 6: Playstation Network Still Down After a devastating hack took down the Sony Playstation Network, the company has shut down the network for an indefinite amount of time--but already, this is the longest shutdown on memory. It is still unknown whether credit card and other private data of the 75 million gamers who use the service was hoisted in the attack
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