Mike Tyson's entered the next phase of his career: creative consultant for the wildly successful iPhone game, "Mike Tyson: Main Event." And while plenty of celebrities lend their names to products, Tyson tells Fast Company he's poured his heart into this one--and found kindred spirits among hardcore gamers.
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Feed SubscriptionCan The Prius Popularize Plug-In Hybrid Electric Cars?
Prius made hybrids acceptable. Now Toyota is going to try to use those good feelings to get people to plug in.
Read More »Face The Nation: How Sensory Logic Sees Secrets In Candidates’ Mugs
The likely Republican candidates might not be saying much about their candidacies just yet. But, as the saying goes, the medium is the message
Read More »Why College Is Not A Bubble (Except For The University Of Phoenix)
The college-is-a-bubble meme just keeps growing . Student-loan debt surpassed credit-card debt for the first time in history last year
Read More »Bin Laden Dies, Stocks Set To Rise
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Stocks set to rise after Bin Laden's fall.
Read More »Osama Bin Laden Dead, The Story Twitter Broke
"The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden," President Barack Obama has just announced.
Read More »The Social Entrepreneurship Spectrum: For-Profit With a Social Mission
For some businesses, social impact can be measured by the size of the checks they write. For others, the mission is woven directly into the business. The Classic Example Founded in 1988, Seventh Generation started as a mail-order company for green household products
Read More »Recovery.org Releases Mobile Apps, But The Accountability Factor May Backfire
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act poured $787 billion back into our economy. That spectacular price tag became a centerpiece of the right's campaign against the left leading up to the midterm elections, and prompted the Obama administration to justify the stimulus package's effectiveness as critics tried to paint it as yet another example of wasteful government spending. That's partly why the administration has spent $1 million on road signs touting federally funded projects and $18 million on revamping Recovery.org , a site dedicated to monitoring stimulus spending
Read More »Why You Should Consult Your Doctor, Not Facebook, On Medical Issues
A controversial (read: insane) alternative multiple sclerosis treatment has gained a popular following in Canada via social media, wrongly influencing research priorities.
Read More »How To Make Skeptics Believe Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Authentic
Birth certificate, schmirth certificate. The Yale Cultural Recognition Project's theory suggests that die-hard birthers will hold firm to their political philosophies in the face of incontrovertible evidence--until they're given a way to save face. Anyone eager to confront genuine issues plaguing the nation--from staunch lefties to sober leaders on the political right--got a moment of respite today with the release of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Read More »How We Should Store Spent Nuclear Fuel
There are multiple nuclear reactors teetering on fault lines around the country, and most of them are surrounded by pools of water filled with still-very-radioactive spent fuel. The radioactivity from the now-exposed spent fuel at Fukushima is part of the reason why the situation there is so dire.
Read More »Science on the White House Lawn
“Ooh, science!” said the mom, two little ones in tow. “We like science!” I was at the Lawrence Hall of Science station during the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House yesterday, a tradition since 1878.
Read More »Slashtag.it, The Mother Of All Search Shortcuts
With Slashtag.it, you can search just about any site you'd want to, all from the same homepage or search bar. You might only save a few seconds on every search--but after a while, those seconds add up
Read More »iFive: Obama’s "Fun" Science, Facebook Lost iPhone Deal, Iran’s Space Monkey, Foursquare-Apple Rumors, Nokia-Microsoft Deal
1. Barack Obama once promised to have a science-friendly presidency, And at his ground-breaking town hall on Facebook , he promised more science . Specifically he wants to "start making science cool" and hopes the American people will think of the next "big energy breakthrough" the same way they felt about the moonwalks forty years ago
Read More »With Microsoft’s Patent Battle, Innovation Goes On Trial
Many of our Most Innovative Companies appear to want to weaken an element of patent law. But don't patents protect innovation?
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