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Feed SubscriptionWhy Kindle Fire Will Be Left in the Cold
If Amazon's new Kindle Fire doesn't make it; it won't be from lack of hype in the press. Actually, I can give you a list of reasons why the Fire leaves me cool. First however, let's go over the launch details.
Read More »Humbled, Color’s Bill Nguyen Friends Facebook
Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains.
Read More »Go Mobile, Reach Customers
If you’re a small business owner with customers on the go, or employees that work in the field or remotely, you may want to provide them with a mobile app to connect with your business.
Read More »Video: Stroke prevention: An apple a day…
Strokes are the third leading cause of death in this country and now, new research shows the color of your fruits and vegetables can help reduce a stroke. Dr.
Read More »Fore! Water Sucking, Pesticide Covered Golf Courses Try To Clean Up Their Act
The links have been a frequent target of environmentalists, due to how much it takes to maintain them, often in places where manicured lawns aren't supposed to grow. But a new generation of courses is making major headway fairway. Golf is a game that environmentalists love to hate--and not without reason.
Read More »The Made For Good Model Of Successful Cause Marketing
Cause marketing has been proven to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty, but are the new models of embedded generosity a passing fad or the new fundamental?
Read More »Google+ Growth, Ballmer On Win Phone 7, Cisco Dumps Staff, HP Reshuffles WebOS Execs, Google’s Photovine Sharing App
Google+ may hit 10 million users today, and Steve Ballmer admits Windows Phone failings. This and more surprising/important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.
Read More »Cracking The Body’s Source Code With Your Smartphone
A new app will help you diagnose and track skin conditions--from wrinkles to melanoma.
Read More »The Periodic Table of the Cosmos: 100 Years of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (preview)
Modern astronomy paints a vivid picture of the universe having been born in a cataclysmic bang and filled with exotic stars ranging from gargantuan red supergiants that span the size of a modest solar system to hyperdense white dwarf stars and black holes that are smaller than Earth. These discoveries are all the more remarkable because astronomers infer them from the faintest glimmers of light, sometimes just a handful of photons
Read More »4 Innovative Keyboards
We tested four keyboards with newfangled features. Here are the results
Read More »This Week In Bots: Stinky Bots, Lovable Bots, Biting Bots, Crashing Bots, And More
What's been happening this week in the world of robotics?
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Sea urchin?
Read More »When matter melts: Physicists map phase changes in quark-gluon plasma
In its infancy, when the universe was a few millionths of a second old, the elemental constituents of matter moved freely in a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons. As the universe expanded, this quarkgluon plasma quickly cooled, and protons and neutrons and other forms of normal matter "froze out": the quarks became bound together by the exchange of gluons, the carriers of the color force.
Read More »Social Media App Banjo Aggregates All Your Tweets, Facebook Posts, Instagram Pics
These days, it takes nearly a half-dozen apps to keep up with all our fragmented social networks. But a new app out today called Banjo aims to solve those disconnections by integrating all your social networks into one streamlined service. We shoot out quick updates to friends on Facebook.
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