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When Dedon debuted its 2011 outdoor furniture collections earlier this year, the German company went global: Transporting its handmade designs to some of the world’s most exotic destinations, Dedon created lavish alfresco living spaces in unlikely locations—from a lakefront setting surrounded by elephants in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to the wintry ...

Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.

Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could both shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch. Al Jazeera might have some new competition. Financial media giant Bloomberg is reportedly in talks with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia to launch a new Arabic-language business news channel--a move which could shake up foreign media and cause massive headaches for Rupert Murdoch

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon Ups Ante Against Netflix . Amazon's doing a deal with NBC that is really aimed at one thing--building a better net video streaming service to rival Netflix

Last October I had an article in Scientific American about what it would mean for time to end--how the world might cease to unfold in a unidirectional sequence of cause and effect. Some processes, for example, could cause time to morph into just another dimension of space . Last week experimenters announced that they have simulated such a temporal calamity in the laboratory

It's more like the "multiple device" era. It's amazing to me that there are people who can buy into conspiracy theories like questioning President Obama's "real birthplace," but when it comes to this brave new world of technology that requires us to have multiple devices, no one is suspicious this happened on purpose

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

In places where there is no grid, houses can be dark.

Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless for decades to come.

The new Personal Genome Machine was used to decode the DNA of the deadly strain of E. coli that ravaged Europe this spring

LONDON (Reuters) - People from northern parts of the world have evolved bigger brains and larger eyes to help them to cope with long, dark winters and dim skies, scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers from Oxford University studied the eye sockets and brain capacity of 55 human skulls from 12 different populations across the world and found that the further human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains. [More]

After two decades of working with the tech giant, Darryl Peck opened a small Apple retail store called PeachMac.

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By Chloe McIvor of Nature magazine Preschool children spontaneously invent experiments in their play, according to research published this month in Cognition. The findings suggest that basic scientific principles help very young brains to learn about the world. Psychologists have been drawing a comparison between cognitive development and science for years -- an idea referred to as 'the child as scientist'

In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect, we look at what might happen if interest in soccer continues to grow: TV deals, a World Cup victory, and the American Dirk Nowitzki. 1. The Rise Of The Other Football U.S.