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"Win the Future," if you're not into the whole brevity thing. He registered it in '06. Then Obama stole it

Today, what's hot in music isn't necessarily what's on Billboard's Hot 100--often considered the industry's benchmark ranking index. For one, most indie acts won't ever sell enough CDs to rank among the world's Justin Biebers or Lady Gagas

Thousands of teenagers from around the world have submitted a science project to the Google Science Fair . Now it's your turn to participate

01 / Dawning Information Industry > > For being China's leading supercomputer-maker. Its Nebulae is the world's third-fastest, and Dawning aims to take on its chipmaker, Nvidia, with its own chip, called the Loongson

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Music Sales Up Thanks To Hipsters, Old People Nielson released a piracy apocalypse-busting stat about the music industry: sales are up 1.6% in 2011. Premium content, such as the Beatles' albums , and a 37% surge in vinyl (thank your local hipster, everybody), helped propel a trend for a sector that hasn't always had much to celebrate lately

Many users are finding themselves unable to access the torrent site today. Comcast says it doesn't restrict websites to any of its customers, and indeed, the problem seems to be global. Then what's going on here

Global warming and decades of outmoded fire prevention strategies are merging to set the stage for massive "mega-fires" that scar communities' homes and pocketbooks, according to a new assessment. Preliminary findings from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released this week trace the circumstances around eight mega-fires across the world in a quest to uncover clues on how best to ward them off and minimize their damage.

Qualcomm and the X Prize are offering money for a device that can spot diseases better than a doctor.

The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.

Google has shaken up the computing world with its rentable Chromebooks using its own Chrome OS.

The social network’s small new feature could have a big impact. Yesterday Facebook rolled out a seemingly minor enhancement to their Photos feature.

1. Facebook and Google haven't exactly seen eye to eye, and now the battle seems to have turned nasty : Facebook hired a PR firm to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, with an angle that Google was invading user privacy. Facebook has now, seemingly, confirmed it hired Burson-Marsteller, on the grounds it thinks Google's really invading privacy, and is unfairly using Facebook's data to fuel its own social ambitions.

Yesterday, Google Launched Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that lets you stream all your songs from any device.

Will applying the lessons learned making computer chips to solar panels result in really cheap solar power? Solar startups often have impressively big ideas about how they're going to scale up the next revolutionary technology, but few get the job done

More than a third of business owners may be dyslexic. A new documentary features those who say the reading disorder is a gift that aided their success. A new film airing tonight on HBO2 examines the role of dyslexia in the lives of successful entrepreneurs and corporate leaders around the world.