Facebook jumps into and out of the news like a Jack-in-the-box who's had too much caffeine, but this last week has seen an unusual amount of officially announced Facebook tweaks, as well as a bit of saber rattling regarding its future plans.
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Steve Jobs is out, and Tim Cook is in. It's too early to tell what the future holds, but here's a look at upcoming Apple product launches. With Steve Jobs exiting as Apple CEO, one has to wonder: What does this mean for the tech giant’s near-term product launches?
Read More »Why Zimbabwe’s Cool-Sounding Plan To Give Away Millions Of CFLs Isn’t A Good Solution
It sounds like a forward-thinking energy policy, but giving away the bulbs won't solve the country's electricity problems, and the money could be spent on developing truly innovative solutions. Zimbabwe's power supply is erratic, to say the least
Read More »Steve Jobs: A Mega, Meta Appreciation
Everything that needs to be said of Steve Jobs has already been written. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else. If you read only one story about Steve Jobs today (yeah, right) make it this one
Read More »Gif Shop Is YouTube For Everyday Animators
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
Read More »Apple Roundup: Totally New Macs, Cheap iPhone, iPhone 5 Parts And Dates, LTE iPhones Tested, Retina iPads In-Bound
August is traditionally a slow news month for tech, but with its revised iPhone launch schedule Apple's still turning up plenty of rumors--along with fascinating hints at future Macs. Entirely New Product Line Japanese Mac site Macotakara is predicting Apple's got something surprising up its sleeve for the end of 2011: A completely new Mac product.
Read More »10 Ousted Founders
Entrepreneurs who launch companies don't always stay in charge. Etsy founder Rob Kalin was replaced in July, and nine other examples. Rob Kalin is perhaps one of the few start-up founders to be replaced not once, but twice in his tenure as CEO
Read More »Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys Motorola .
Read More »TabCo Says Its Tablet Tech Knows What You Want Before You Do
With the misty complexity of its thickly shrouded pre-launch PR, TabCo has the tech world intrigued as to what it may actually deliver. A spokesperson offers Fast Company some exclusive new details about the company's most innovative tricks. For a company whose products no one has actually seen or knows much about,
Read More »Nintendo Games On iPhones?, HTC Invests In Beats Sound Tech, Intel’s $300M Tablet Tech Gamble
Nintendo Games On iPhones?
Read More »Disney Reinvents The Vibrator … For Sensational Movies And Gaming
Disney Research has come up with a new technology so
Read More »How The BBC Is Quietly, Confidently Shaping The Future Of TV
This morning the BBC launched a whole new version of its iPlayer app, destined for connected TVs that sport a Net connection. In essence this means the BBC has taken its TV content online, added on-demand features, advanced search powers, playability on multiple platforms both mobile and static, and then fed all of its lessons back into an app...for TVs.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Learning Bots, Baking Bots, Gesture-Reading Bots
Robots are ever closer to being clever enough, autonomous enough, and useful enough to actually become part of daily life. Here are the latest robo-developments
Read More »Storyboarding The Apes
In a world full of CG and unlimited budgets, one man clings tight to his hand-crafted illustrations.
Read More »Twitter’s $800M Cash Injection, Skype’s iPad App, Facebook’s Ad Moves, LivingSocial Aims East, UK Cops Have LulzSec Hacker
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Twitter Is $800 Million Richer
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