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Developing countries don’t have the same access to satellite information as do first-world nations. A given country might want to monitor dust storms, measure rice yields or track population migrations

The iPad magazine looks gorgeous and works about as well as Zite, Flipboard, et. al. It even understands if you're not into AOL content.

Actor, who secretly helped fund girls' separation surgery nine years ago, turns out to help celebrate their tenth birthday

With a quarter of a million followers between them, the men and women behind a few of the better faux accounts show us how to create and maintain successful, character-driven Twitter feeds. All kinds of quippy characters populate my Twitter feed. There are the "newsies" intent on dishing out the latest info nuggets, the "media-obsessives" grappling with the state of our industry, those snark-laced counter-punchers I'll call "quipsters," and the "newbies" who, with only a handful of followers, are just beginning to find their way.

Cunard 's Queen Mary 2 has passed its vessel sanitation re-test, some six weeks after suffering a failing score when inspectors found a human hair in the ice machine, dirty water in the pools and chemicals stored near napkins.

People who believe in benevolent God worry less than those who believe in punitive or indifferent deity

Priya David Clemons reports on the amazing story of two formerly conjoined twin girls, who underwent a highly risky separation procedure 10-years-ago.

Macmillan Cancer Support charity says exercise can reduce side effects, risk of dying from cancer

Don't think you'd drink water recycled from pee? Well, you may not have a choice

As New York's mayor looks beyond politics and business, how far can the billionaire push his philanthropy and urban ideas?

New York is at the top of the list; South Carolina is at the bottom. New York was tops in the nation for entrepreneurial activity, according to a new report

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Groupon's Accounting Tricks . Groupon, reacting to pressure from the SEC is filing a new S1 form that ditches a controversial Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income accounting trick.

In the not-too-distant future broadband speeds will be measured in gigabits per second rather than megabits per second, the former being 1,000 times faster than the latter. Such blazing fast data transmission will vastly improve the quality of streaming high-definition video, playing online video games, participating in video conferences and using voice over IP, all of which struggle with latency at today's average data transfer rates, which range from less than one megabit per second (Mbps) to 10 Mbps (pdf) . The sticking point over gigabit-per-second broadband: who will pay for it?

GolfChannel: Caddie helps Adam Scott to Bridgestone victory, one he said was better than anything he experienced while with Tiger Woods. That's called a parting shot.

Scott Piercy squandered a three-stroke lead, then dodged more trouble down the stretch before making a 7-foot par putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Reno-Tahoe Open by one stroke.