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Wireless Internet provider LightSquared has filed for Chapter 11 protection. LightSquared, the ambitious 4G wireless venture recently poised to bring lightning-fast Internet to the masses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today. Government tests found that LightSquared's signals interfered with GPS reception, a setback LightSquared was never able to recover from.

The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple. Starting on May 16, new United States Postal Service (USPS) regulations will prohibit iPads, Kindles, smartphones, and other electronics with lithium batteries from being mailed to overseas troops or foreign customers.

Legendary spook Richard A. Clarke's gone on the record claiming Chinese hackers have infiltrated every major American corporation. He warns that the effects for American innovation--and especially corporate R&D--will be brutal

What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus?

What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus? The answer offers a trickle of optimism.

Charlie Palmer’s annual Pigs & Pinot event may be sold out, but now through April guests of the Hotel Healdsburg in California’s Russian River Valley can have their own Pigs & Pinot weekend with a new, two-night package offered as a part of the hotel’s Epicurean Winter program. Guests who ...

Is it selling? Pitching

Is it selling? Pitching?

The Russian search company has just announced a collaboration with Twitter. Here's how they're becoming more like Google--and also how they also zag with every Google zig.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google To Stream Stock Data From LSEG . Google and the London Stock Exchange Group have partnered up.

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok , a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. [More]

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.

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Would you love your Roomba more if it had rat-like whiskers?