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The British animator Cyriak Harris has translated his surreal creature creations into YouTube stardom. Cyriak Harris learned hand-drawn animation at school, but it's his bag of self-taught digital tricks that power the insane cavalcade of worm-shaped cats and madly multiplying lambs that make this 37-year-old Brit one of YouTube’s most popular filmmakers. His last eight clips have racked up roughly 28 million page views by putting cattle , sheep, teddy bears , and cats through preposterous paces

On the next important front of The Great Tech War, 2012.

British firm Gamma International was found hawking spyware to foreign intelligence services that installed onto users' computers via an iTunes security hole. The breach has been fixed, but documents indicate that the exploit was used to snoop on the email, Skype, and social media activities of users worldwide

Mobile devices have completely changed the way we consume music. It wasn't so long ago that I would physically go to a store to browse for an album. Today, I can stream pretty much any song ever recorded on my smartphone, for free, anywhere I have access to the Internet

Andrew Yang founded Venture for America to tackle unemployment, one aspiring entrepreneur at a time. Andrew Yang wants to create jobs. Specifically, 100,000 U.S

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. New Nokia Phone Stars In Leaked YouTube Video .

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The first Inc. 500 company to go public since August exceeded its IPO expectations, despite that it doesn't look much like other companies going public this year

Much is made these days about the "pace of innovation." Everything is moving faster. Supposedly.

For the fourth year in a row, LinkedIn cofounder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is co-leading "Silicon Valley Comes To The UK"

You could wade through dozens of reviews of the new Amazon Kindle Fire--or let us extract the best bits for you. Here's the most meta version of the story you will read online, offline, and everywhere else, each line taken from professional reviewers, tech bloggers, Tweeters, and Amazon customers. It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago

The Stop Online Piracy Act could allow the government and corporations to create website blacklists. That's enraging tech's best and brightest

It's not at all clear that the bill would even succeed in catching online piracy. But it could significantly harm innovation on the Web. What's currently being called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) may very well acquire a new name if it manages to come to a vote and pass: The Bill That Broke the Internet.

Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and Facebook president, says early-stage investors will fund almost anything these days. That's not good. The normally party-happy but press-shy tech entrepreneur Sean Parker was a bit of a buzzkill on the subject of Silicon Valley Tuesday