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Feed SubscriptionInnovation Agents: Britta Gross, Director of GM’s Global Energy Systems and Infrastructure Commercialization
By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind.
Read More »Fact, Fiction, and the New $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg
Larry Klayman has sued Facebook and Zuckerberg for its failure to shut down the "Third Intifada" Facebook page sooner than it did. Who is this "one-man litigation explosion," and what does he represent? On Thursday, Larry Klayman, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, sued Facebook and Mark Zuckerber for $1 billion in damages.
Read More »Wikipedia’s Librarian to the World
Photograph by Robyn Twomey Photograph by Robyn Twomey Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions.
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 »Apple Going After Color, Instagram With iPhone’s Social "Photo Stream"
Apple seems to be planning some clever, instant social media sharing skills for the iPhone's photo app, at least if new discoveries in Apple's code prove true. Could Apple have even pre-empted Instagram and Color ?
Read More »Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
In philosophy of mind, a “cerebroscope” is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today’s language, which reads out the content of somebody’s brain. An autocerebroscope is a device applied to one’s own brain.
Read More »Noise Pollution Is Secretly Killing You, Says a New Study
Air pollution, in case you missed the memo, is really bad for you.
Read More »Videoconferences Are Awkward and Not Super Useful, Right? MIT’s Kinect Hack Can Help
Work coming out of MIT's Media Lab has taken the imaging powers of a Microsoft Kinect and used them to power software that reveals how we'll be videoconferencing in the future.
Read More »Hillary Clinton’s Senior Tech Advisor Talks "Radical" Global Citizenship
Alec Ross on subversive technologies, Libya, Wikileaks, and the future of digital diplomacy."We're willing to make mistakes of commission," he tells Fast Company, "rather than omission." In the turbulent center of the Venn diagram involving President Obama's multilateral foreign policy, open government mandates, and Middle-East unrest is Alec Ross, the Senior
Read More »iFive: Google Slips in China, Anonymous Hits Sony, Apple Jailbreakers Get Ads, Sony Reveals iPhone 5 Cam, Google’s New/Old CEO
1. Google's presence in China, always in the balance after its very public spat with the Chinese government over censorship, seems to be at a critical juncture .
Read More »Steps to Easy Relationship Building
Prospecting, Sales, Marketing – oh my! It can all feel quite overwhelming and frustrating at times, can’t it? Recently, I spoke with an acquaintance who has been in the job market for over a year. I noticed a pattern in John’s marketing of himself that I’ve seen in many business owners as well.
Read More »How to Institutionalize Inspiration in Your Company
If every company institutionally implemented innovation practices, we might all be just as successful as Pixar, Apple, or 3M.
Read More »Gary Player recalls the beauty of green jacket
Gary Player was already a major champion when he played the Masters in 1961. By the time the tournament ended, the South African had defeated Arnold Palmer and become the first international player to wear the green jacket
Read More »Are the Oil Barons Panicking? Saudi Arabia to Spend $100 Billion on Renewable Energy
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, may not be panicking quite yet about its ever-declining oil supply--but the country is certainly concerned. Consider: in February, a Wikileaks document revealed that Saudi Arabia might be overstating its oil reserves by 300 billion barrels, and the country recently asked for a slice of the UN's $100 billion climate change fund to help diversify to other energy sources (a galling request from such a wealthy country so dependent on other people not diversifying to other energy sources). And now the kingdom has announced that it plans to spend $100 billion on solar, nuclear, and other renewable energy sources.
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