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The Russian federal space agency has revealed that on April 15th, the U.S. and Russia will meet to discuss the development of a future joint nuclear-engine powered rocket project. The announcement was made by agency director Anatoly Perminov, and the joint project will also include other nations with a "high level of reactor manufacturing technology." This list could include France, Britain, Germany, China, and Japan
Read More »Google Prank Becomes a Reality
On April Fool’s Day, the prank that was the biggest hit in the office was Google Motion . With a realistic faux launching page, the seriousness of the prank definitely sparked some loud laughter here at Journyx
Read More »Google’s Digital Library Failed–Can Academics Succeed?
Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision? Not long ago a federal judge in Manhattan scuttled Google 's plans to create a digital universal library (a dream kicked off when Larry Page scanned "The Google Book" years ago--his company has since scanned 15 million more).
Read More »Google Science Fair Deadline Approaching!
Students, parents, teachers : the Google Science Fair ’s deadline is April 4. Scientific American is a media partner, and I am a judge.
Read More »Mob Manager Helps Businesses Handle Groupon-Related Customer Onslaught, Panic Attacks
Groupon can deliver a stampede of new customers to your business. But then what?
Read More »How This Man Led IBM’s Watson Team to Innovate
IBM's Watson , a super-computer best known as a Jeopardy-winning robot, might not exist if not for Dr. David Ferrucci
Read More »A Teen Eye for Design
Photographs by Malcolm Brown Imagine what creativity might erupt, says Linda Tischler, if design were taught in middle school. YEARS AGO, we had a running joke at Fast Company: What if we tallied up all the game-changing ideas CEOs claimed had come from their 13-year-old kids
Read More »Meet the Remote-Controlled Sea Robots That Can Explore Antarctica
The same company behind the popular Roomba robocleaner is producing an underwater robot that can stay below the surface for months.
Read More »This Lens Takes Pictures From Nine Angles at Once to Make a 3-D Image
Fingernail-sized, gemstone-shaped, it's the first device of its kind.
Read More »How Netflix Is Pushing the Envelope With Fincher-Spacey Project, "House of Cards"
CEO Reed Hastings told investors he wasn't interested in "creative risks." But his company is betting a rumored $100 million for 26 episodes of a series no one has seen--based largely on "intuition" and the reputations of David Fincher and Kevin Spacey. On a Jan. 26 earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told investors he was not interested in taking creative risks.
Read More »Can Congress Force Google to Remove Pirate Sites From Search?
Congress is mid-hearing about all sorts of piracy at the moment, but one interesting trend has emerged: The notion that Congress could force Google to de-list pirate sites from search results? And does this constitute censorship?
Read More »The "App Gap" in Local News Consumption
Plenty of people use their mobile devices to gather local information. But only 1% have paid for an app to do so. If the Internet has crippled local newsgathering in many regions, could smartphones and tablets bring it back
Read More »Street Artist JR Asks People Worldwide to Lend Him Their Eyes
JR, the graffiti-artist-turned-photographer-turned-global-phenomenon, talks to Fast Company about embarking on his global TED project, which encourages citizen artists to document and display the faces of their own communities. Last fall, the French street artist JR , known for his haunting, massive posters of the faces of ordinary people, won the 2011 TED Prize
Read More »For Libya, UN Calls in the Google Maps Gurus
The United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has teamed up with a coalition of Google Maps-savvy computer security, journalism, NGO and humanitarian experts to find out exactly what's happening in Libya. The challenge: stopping the map from being used for military intelligence purposes.
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