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Bot Vid: Transformers, For Real Transformers may be robots in disguise, but the kids' toys that drive the franchise have never been really robotic. There's always been a lot of "pull that, twist this, flip the other" dextrous fingerwork required to get the plastic parts to actually transform. With that in mind (yes, stop being nostalgic about your childhood!) watch this , courtesy of Plastic Pals

Entrepreneurs rank their top goals for 2012, how they measure success, and how the business climate has affected their health in the past year.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source .

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Twitter's TextSecure Goes Open Source . In a surprise move, Twitter announced that the code from Whisper Systems' TextSecure SMS anonymizer is being released to the open source community

The award-winning, death-cheating director of "Grizzly Man" and "Fitzcarraldo" gets up close and personal for his latest documentary.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google's Doodle celebrates Marie Curie's birthday. Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw.

Break Media's new site, TuVez, is aimed at Hispanic males. Here's how it's been growing fast while navigating a complex new market

Last month a BBC news story made the Internet rounds, with a somewhat sensational headline declaring the “first Irish case of death” by spontaneous human combustion (SHC). The badly burnt body of a 76-year-old man was found in his Galway home on December 22, 2010, lying on his back with his head close to an open fireplace. There was no trace of accelerant, no evidence of foul play, and “forensic experts” concluded that the fire in the fireplace hadn’t caused the blaze.

Venture capitalists and angel investors weigh in on what they're looking for in your company blog.

Google 's Eric Schmidt was visiting the other side of the Atlantic this weekend, and during his speaking engagements he waxed lyrical about Google TV. Very lyrical. He pronounced, "Virtually all the television manufacturers on their very high end will eventually adopt Google TV." He also suggested a five-year timetable and then revealed that Google TV will be getting its British debut in about six months.

HP To Spin-Off PC Business . HP has now said that it prefers to spin-off its PC-making division and is considering how it can do this within the current company structure.

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The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again. Felix Barrett would like to blow that notion to hell, using the unlikely weapon of theater

The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel. Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--GPS-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again.

According to a new Harvard University survey that was partially funded by the State Department, 7% of Arab bloggers have been arrested or detained over the past year while 30% have been threatened. Seven percent of Middle Eastern bloggers were arrested and detained in the past year--and nearly 30% were personally threatened, according to a new Harvard University survey