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Notable Features Through the Years

Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content, and walks us through the highlights. I joined Inc

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Buyer’s Remorse Over Windows

I bought a laptop yesterday. I had to. I've been limping by using a little netbook with Windows XP for the past couple of years (I know, I know, it's the cobbler's children who have no shoes).

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Drivers Who Brake With Their Brains

You might think you have lightning reflexes, but the time between thinking you need to brake and your foot pushing the pedal can be life or death. What if we eliminated the (literal) middle man?

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Are You A Victim Of Phantom Vibration Syndrome?

That's right--when you reach for your cell phone, though you are unprovoked by a beep or a hum, you are a slave of biology. And of our modern-day dependency on gadgets. You might laugh, but do you find yourself reaching for a vibrating phone in your pocket, only to discover that it's not there?

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Hacking the Grocery Store

Caitlin Shetterly, 36, knows how to eat on the cheap: In 2009, her husband, Dan, lost his job and the couple and their newborn baby moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, to live with Shetterly's mother until they could get back on their feet. Her new book Made For You and Me chronicles the family’s journey, including how they managed to eat well—and organic—on very little. (Their grocery bill, including feeding two adults, a baby and two pets, was about $88/week.) Here's how they did it

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The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War

In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines?

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Carbonite IPO, Hulu’s Ad-Free Plans, Iceland’s Crowdsourced Constitution Is Ready, iPhone Maker’s Million-Robot Plan

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Carbonite's Cloudy IPO . Carbonite, a paid cloud-storage warehouse service, is prepping for an IPO--making the most of growing awareness about cloud technology, and before competitors like Amazon or Apple seal up much of the consumer-facing industry

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Inc.com Turns 15

15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com On a warm midsummer day in 1996, a group of four editors huddled around a computer in a Boston office. Matthew Berk, a webmaster, "hit a button and launched the site, Inc.com," explains Bob LaPointe, Inc.'s current president, who was at the time a vice president of Inc

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How it All Began

Leslie Brokaw, a founding editor of Inc. Online, recalls Inc.com's early go-go years. About a dozen of us were in the Inc

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Happy Anniversary, Inc.com

A Brief History of Inc.com Fifteen years ago this month, Inc.com was born. To mark the occasion, we took a ride in the way-back machine

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