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In the wake of the bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoya Island in Norway, the spotlight has focused on confessed perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik. What drove the Norwegian citizen with extremist right-wing views to these mass killings? Although one of the terrorist's driving motives was anti-immigrant sentiment, he also killed fellow Norwegians belonging to his own ethnic group

Working out has never been more efficient or a bigger part of a human culture than it is today. We've dug into the history of kinesiology to find the inventions and processes that changed exercise.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Space Shuttle Atlantis Coming Home For Ever . At 4:18 this morning EDT , the Space Shuttle Atlantis fired its maneuvering rockets to take it away from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth for one final time, closing the Shuttle era

The scandal that helped shutter Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid and left at least nine News International journalists facing possible criminal charges has brought phone hacking into the spotlight as a means of subversively gathering information for news articles. As investigators study the scope of the problem, including the role phone hacking played in News of the World 's coverage of the disappearance and death of teen Milly Dowler in 2002, it's become clear that breaking into someone else's voicemail isn't very difficult

Sylvia Gereda, a founder of El Periodico, the first independent newspaper in Guatemala, is making sure her country has the benefit of a free and vigorous press. We heard Gereda speak this past weekend at the Aspen Global Leadership Summit

Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars still ripe for a swindle?

Whether it's sudden press or a viral video, it's easier than ever for business owners to get a taste of the spotlight. Here's how to make it last. Before she turned actress Natalie Portman into a ballerina for the film Black Swan, dancer Mary Helen Bowers was already training women all over New York City through her fitness company, Ballet Beautiful, which she founded in 2008

Entrepreneurs can be reluctant to pull away from work. But slogging it out through the summer may not be good for your healthor your business

BOSTON--Score one for the little guys. After years of obscurity in the corners of distant planetary systems smaller exoplanets are finally shuffling into the spotlight.

Google and Skyhook have been tussling over IP, and in a court filing we've learned a surprising insight into Google's protective actions over Android. Looks like Facebook didn't need to bother with its smear campaign. Google and Skyhook have been tussling over IP, but in a court filing we've gained a surprising insight into Google's protective actions over Android.

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine When audiences saw dramatic scenes of people setting their tap water on fire in the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland, hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," was thrown into the spotlight. [More]

Welcome to a world where you no longer need an Internet connection to check email. But is this truly a miracle? At long last! You can now search your Gmail, Google Docs, a Contacts without an Internet connection.

Sooner or later, every growing company reaches a point at which the entrepreneur behind it should start wondering whether he or she is the right person to be CEO. The answer has a lot to do with the company’s stage of development.

Augmenting the millions of different types of data Google now searches, it's just added a new feature to its sidebar: The ability to search patents. It's a powerful tweak, especially given the huge number of patent lawsuits going on

With Slashtag.it, you can search just about any site you'd want to, all from the same homepage or search bar. You might only save a few seconds on every search--but after a while, those seconds add up