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From London to the Middle East riots have shaken political stability.

The battle over "platforms" is as frenzied and vital as a presidential campaign. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;"} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Illustration by I Love Dust It has become impossible to escape the smartphone wars

As soon as our species abandoned the daily grind of Stone Age feast-or-famine, we went straight to town.

My first city was Conan Doyle’s London, in the company of Holmes and Watson. My mother gave me a two-volume omnibus edition when I was 10

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Wikileaks Outs More Diplomatic Cables . As announced by a flurry of tweets from its Twitter account, Wikileaks has released another tranche of data from its secret diplomatic cables haul

Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superconducting shapes using an X-ray beam. This ability to create and control tiny superconducting structures has implications for a completely new generation of electronic devices.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. UK Goverment Summons Social Networks For Riot Talks . Next Thursday the Home Office will hold a meeting with the top social networks to discuss the recent nationwide riots.

From The Art of War to Team of Rivals, the 12 management books you should read now (if you haven't already) The against-all-odds survival tale of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27-member crew is one of the most timeless leadership allegories out there.

The deadly mob violence that wracked England this past week has abated, as police came out in force and used surveillance images to track down and arrest some 1,900 alleged rioters. As London and other cities in the nation recover, officials and the public may be left wondering how to prevent such rioting in the first place. A key misunderstanding, however, seems to pervade popular thinking: that mobs are irrational and are driven to violence by a few bad apples

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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.

David Lauren is turning his father's empire into a digital leader--and shaking up the fashion industry. Photo by Francois Dischinger D avid Lauren was racked with anxiety. It was 2 a.m

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Bing Dings Google's Market Share .

Rioters chose RIM. But Twitter and Facebook's new mob mostly carry brooms. "It's Like Hogwarts," says an observer

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Tinkering with male mosquitoes so that they cannot produce sperm is a promising way to control the spread of the malaria-carrying insects in the wild. Researchers had been concerned that female Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes might not be fooled into mating with the spermless males, but lab tests show that they are just as attracted to sterile males as to normal ones1