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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Foxconn's Huge Profit . Foxconn , maker of hardware for Apple and a number of peer computing firms, has reported $943 billion profits for the first half of 2011, a significant turnaround from its $218 million loss for all of 2010.

When will a computer finally understand sarcasm? Seth Redmore of Lexalytics gazes into the future of text analysis and machine intelligence. The next guest in our futurist series, Crystal Ballin’ , is Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics , a major player in the realm of text and sentiment analysis

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.

Cell-Phone Paradise Communication is at the heart of the future. A future city would need to respond to people on a personal level

Surprisingly, rumors still persist in some corners of the Internet that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going to destroy the Earth – even though nearly three years have passed since it was first turned on.

With the augmented reality browser, Junaio, your smartphone can recognize reality via its camera--and then tell you even more about it. Metaio just transformed its Junaio Augmented Reality browser into a highly useful tool. Its new Scan function recognizes a range of real things--from pictures to QR codes to product barcodes--so it can supply extra info to its users about what it's looking at.

Steve Jobs's return to Apple in 1997 is often referred to as the greatest second act in business history. He had been ousted more than a decade earlier in 1985, and was forced to watch helplessly as the company he built tumbled toward bankruptcy, hampered by poor management, a weak product line, and a dearth of innovation

Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data

What makes a joke funny? The head of the Internet radio site's team of comedy analysts shows us the inner workings of its new Comedy Genome Project. There’s an old quote from E.B.

Just in time for Hurricane Irene's arrival, a new survey from the Red Cross claims that social media is increasingly being used by Americans seeking information on natural disasters. A reliance on social media and text messages during emergencies has hidden dangers. When a major earthquake struck the east coast on Tuesday, residents were taken aback.

There's a certain homespun charm to the animated .gif. The beauty lies in the simplicity of these animations: It's easy to make one, and .gifs are far faster to upload, stream, or send than a video file. For the uninitiated, a .gif is simply a looped set of static images, a kind of digital flipbook

Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything.

Good news about air travel is rare these days, but somewhere between invasive security measures and late arrivals, increasing fuel prices and frustrated flight attendants, it happens. Making the skies a bit friendlier this month, American Airlines and Aircell debuted a new service-- Gogo Vision-- that lets travelers watch streaming video content inflight on their own gadgets

Glasses that wont give you a headache The "aha" moment: When Hank Green asked his wife to see Tron: Legacy in 3-D late last year, she refused, explaining that watching 3-D movies gave her a headache.

A look at the companies competing to be top of the class in the digital textbooks market College tuition continues to rise, but textbooks may be getting cheaper—and a lot more portable. Instead of lugging a backpack filled with heavy volumes, some students have begun using electronic textbooks, which typically cost less and can be read on a laptop or tablet