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A tour through Thomas Edison's famed workshop, plus Apple's bid to convert speech to text, and the rest of today's news.

Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.

Magleby's Fresh, a Provo, Utah, restaurant, is famous among students at Brigham Young University for its all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. It was there in 2009 that Dan Blake first took notice of the staggering amount of food that ended up in the restaurant's garbage cans

Each year , I help fellow entrepreneurs and investors judge the MBA business plan competition at Harvard Business School. This year, I noted which pitch approaches seemed to work best and which tactics fell flat. Here are five things that worked in this year's presentations—and that you should consider including in your next business plan pitch: 1

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Mobile Scavenger Hunt Spices Up NY Library A smartphone apps that inspires patrons to explore the library's prized pieces premiers with an all-night marathon for the first 500 players.

1. It's here: The first precise pricing figure for the BlackBerry PlayBook--RIM's first (and last?) big hope in the tablet wars. A 16GB Wi-Fi-only model will cost you $499 in the US and $499 locally in Canada, and it'll be available from a decent list of stores.

As the government prepares to update U.S. dietary guidelines, a look back at what people have tried to lose weight shows what hasn't changed is the quest for an easy fix