Apple and Google testified yesterday before a committee examining smartphone user privacy, particularly regarding location tracking. The first conclusion: Senators don't understand the tech, nor do most people.
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Feed SubscriptionWhy Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Hates The "iPad Killer"
What product is going to be the iPad killer? Consumers and bloggers alike can't stop asking that question. Search for "iPad Killer" on Google and you'll return 778,000 results.
Read More »Accelerated Expectations: All Eyes on Large Hadron Collider in Dark Matter Hunt
BALTIMORE--Dark matter pervades the universe, giving shape to the cosmos on the grandest scales. So perhaps it is fitting that physicists are turning to a large-scale physics experiment to uncover what dark matter is made of. [More]
Read More »An island unto itself at Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The Players Championship has all the ingredients of the fifth biggest tournament in golf.
Read More »Bristol Palin’s new look: Was it cosmetic surgery?
So-called orthognathic surgery can curb pain and excessive tooth wear and ease chewing and swallowing problems
Read More »11 surprising headache triggers
Some causes of headache pain might surprise you
Read More »The Prices Are Right
Even in the information age, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics still gathers much of its data the old-fashioned way. Workers make phone calls to find out what dentists charge for pulling teeth, and they visit stores to write down the prices of CDs and Russet potatoes.
Read More »Visa Is Making The E-Wallet Real
We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that. We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet , but the tech itself seems slow to arrive apart from one or two regional experiments, and the promise of more exciting tech in the future
Read More »Bada Bing! HBO Go Hits 1 Million Downloads In Just A Week
Netflix and Hulu should probably be paying attention. HBO's lone-cowboy strategy might be brilliant. HBO Go , the app from HBO that gives streaming access to 1,400 titles (including the big ones--The Sopranos, True Blood, and so on) hit 1 million downloads in just a week
Read More »85% Of College Grads Move Home, Facebook Mandates Secure Connection, Apple’s Onerous Fees Kill Publisher, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Most Grads Live At Home Polish up those baseball trophies and framed prom photos, Mom and Dad, Tommy's moving back after college graduation. A survey by Twentysomething Inc.
Read More »Dinosaur Footprints Threatened by Natural Gas Project
By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine Fossilized dinosaur tracks that dot a remote 80-kilometre stretch of Western Australia's coastline are under threat from a proposed natural gas facility, say paleontologists. The tracks were made by multiple species of sauropod, theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs as they walked across mud flats around 130 million years ago.
Read More »Bean Accounting: Are Soy-Based Food Products as Safe and Healthy as Advertised?
Dear Earth Talk : How healthy is soy?
Read More »Adapting Aid to a Changing Climate
In the middle hills and Terai belt of eastern Nepal, a village spent a rare government donation -- about $3,000 -- to build a well that local leaders hoped would relieve the community from acute water stress. But they lacked an understanding of regional groundwater trends, and within three months, the tap dried up
Read More »Bristol Palin’s "corrective" surgery: Did she need it?
So-called orthognathic surgery can curb pain and excessive tooth wear and make it easier to chew and swallow
Read More »Why Johnny Can’t Name His Colors (preview)
Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, his hands clasped tightly together in his lap. He appeared to have caught an incurable case of the squirms. I resisted the urge to laugh and leaned forward, whispering conspiratorially.
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