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E-Ink On Cloth Raises The Terrible Prospect Of T-Shirt Ads

E-Ink Holdings, which makes the display tech behind Amazon's Kindle e-reader, can now print updatable digital displays onto cloth . Yep...you're already imagining what Google or Facebook could do with the ad space on your T-shirt , aren't you?

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Inside The Egyptian Rebellion Launched On Facebook

In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look. In March 2008, a young would-be civil engineer named Ahmed Maher created a Facebook page called April 6 Youth with a woman named Issra Abdel-Fattah

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Laughs 3.0: Comedy Comes Of Age Online

Even Jerry Seinfeld, stubbornly analog anti-Twitterer, has joined the Internet Age. Did you hear the one about the Internet? Comedy is dominating Net buzz in big ways this week, with several announcements that will make denizens of the web smile--and laugh

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Video: Bristol Palin: Being a teen mom is difficult

CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi speaks with Bristol Palin in New York at the 10th anniversary of the Candies Foundation. Palin speaks about her anti-teen pregnancy campaign and describes some of the struggles she says she's faced as a single mother to son Tripp.

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Is Cigarette Smoking Now Safe?

No. But Chinese scientists think new nanotech filters could do a better job at blocking out badness. Conventional cigarette filters are made of cellulose--low-tech, old, but effective.

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It’s Time to Kill Permanent Energy Subsidies

Removing subsidies for both dirty and clean energy would force everyone to compete on their own merits. The federal government should get rid of permanent energy subsidies for all energy sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels.

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AOL Revenue Tanks, Gigwalk Is A Foursquare For Temp Jobs, IP Addresses Don’t Prove Guilt, And More…

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Bad News For AOL And Microsoft Beleaguered former dial-up king AOL continues to suffer, posting a $551 million revenue drop from a year ago--a whopping 17% decrease.

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Video: Sugar-free food drawbacks

The government says Americans eat more than 45 pounds of added sugar each year. But between diet sodas and sugar free desserts, they also eat a lot of artificial sweeteners. And as Alexis Christoforous found out, food experts aren't convinced that's a good thing.

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Sitting Is Bad for You: What Can You Do About It at Work?

Is it possible that the traditional office worker has the most dangerous job in America? Consider the following studies that found sitting for extended periods is hazardous to your health. In 2007, Dr

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Ask the Experts: What Does Bin Laden’s Death Mean to Us and Society?

The death of Osama bin Laden elicited many different types of responses and feelings--triumph, sorrow and anger among them. Each of us, as individuals, is capable of having conflicting feelings about the death of the al Qaeda leader, depending on how we happen to see ourselves at any given moment--as parents, spouses, workers, Americans, and so forth. The variety of our responses reveals the subtle and powerful forces surrounding social identity: how we relate to different groups and roles, which is changeable and influenced by circumstances

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