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How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations?
Read More »4.5 million Americans over 50 have artificial knees: What’s behind high rates?
In 2009 alone, more than 600,000 knee replacements were performed in the U.S, according to first national estimate of knee replacement surgeries
Read More »Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mice: Hope for humans?
Within 72 hours, mice saw 50 percent reduction in Alzheimer's brain plaques and showed improved memory
Read More »Twitter Partners With Satellite Co’s, Google May Sell Home Entertainment Hardware, New Wallet Security Snag Could Hit All Phones
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon Gets Green Light From India Govt
Read More »Apple Rumor Patrol: New iPads And iPhones Coming Soon
iPad 3 Arrival Date According to the usual wonderfully unreliable (and always anonymous) " sources ," Apple may be poised to reveal the iPad 3 during an early March event, with in-store availability just a handful of days later. If you look at the booking information for the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco, an Apple staple for this sort of event, it looks like Wednesday March 7th is being held open for an undisclosed booking (or at least this day is oddly empty among a cluster of other bookings).
Read More »Marijuana-smoking motorists twice as likely to crash cars
Smoking marijuana within three hours of driving tied to increased risk; drivers over 35 more likely to crash
Read More »How to Fix Your Presentations
If you want your audience to make a decision, you need to tell a good story.
Read More »Get off your butt and exercise, orders your doc
A new study shows more and more U.S. adults are being told by their doctor to get off their duffs and exercise.
Read More »Facebook Users Gird for Mobile Ads
Facebook's pages are packed with information--your news feed, info about who's online and advertisements that use personal information to deliver highly targeted sales pitches. Members accept these ads on a PC screen, but what about on smaller mobile devices? [More]
Read More »Nice Girls Brag: Here’s How
Women are told that its not ladylike to brag. But done right, it can be one of the most effective ways to grow your business and your influence
Read More »The Google Wallet Hack Is Not The End Of The World (Or Even NFC) As We Know It [Update: Google Reacts]
Stay calm and carry on, people: It's way too soon to say that NFC should stand for Now Fatally Corrupted. Yes, Google's breakthrough NFC payments app Wallet is being mentioned all over the news thanks to a flaw--it's vulnerable to a hack that gives nefarious types access to your secure PIN number.
Read More »More than half of America’s pets are obese, survey shows
Survey by Association for Pet Obesity Prevention found 53 percent of dogs and 55 percent of cats are overweight or obese: Why?
Read More »Military food getting nutrition upgrade
Bases to serve more fruits, vegetables, low-fat dishes thanks to "Let's Move" campaign; 1 in 20 service members overweight in 2005
Read More »Norovirus outbreak strikes Rider University in N.J., 40 hospitalized
Authorities suspect outbreak originated at nearby Princeton University
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