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It’s the spring of 2002, and you’ve just been invited to attend one of Blockbuster Video’s quarterly board meetings. Great news: the company’s stock has just hit a new high of $30, and spirits are rowdy

Sooner or later every format goes digital.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, known for such exploits as trying to balloon around the world, said on Tuesday he planned to explore the deepest parts of the world's oceans with a jet-like submarine. The 18-foot vessel is capable of descents more than 36,000 feet below the surface, said Branson at a news conference in Newport Beach, California.

Today, Fast Company was named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's highest honor, by the American Society of Magazine Editors, in the General Excellence category. Fast Company's 2010 July/August , September , and November issues were highlighted. When Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the world's most highly valued tech company, the magazine revealed what really makes Apple Nation distinctive (beyond Steve Jobs's never-changing attire)

While much of the world has been bickering over whether climate change is real or not, climate scientists have been going about their research as usual. But what they have been discovering is revolutionary. Not only is human-driven climate change real; it's even more serious than we thought.Until now, most views of future temperature trends have been limited to this century, as if 2100 AD marked the outer edge of a world beyond which we dare not probe.

Air pollution, in case you missed the memo, is really bad for you.

If every company institutionally implemented innovation practices, we might all be just as successful as Pixar, Apple, or 3M.

Bob and Suzanne Wright, the founders of Autism Speaks, spoke with Lauren Wanko to discuss World Autism Awareness Day, which shines a bright light on autism as a growing global health crisis.

Bob and Suzanne Wright, the founders of Autism Speaks, joined Rebecca Jarvis and Russ Mitchell for "Early Coffee" to discuss World Autism Awareness Day, which shines a bright light on autism as a growing global health crisis.

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.

01 / ESPN > > For integrating new tech like a startup. Sure, it's a behemoth, with a staggering 107 million weekly fans across seven cable networks, a magazine, radio network, podcasts, and various sites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum physicists from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) have set another world record: They have achieved controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not only come closer to the realization of a quantum computer but they also show surprising results for the quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement.

World without Fish by Mark Kurlansky. Illustrated by Frank Stockton.

Not since 1645 has the Tibetan capital of Lhasa welcomed such a palatial retreat.

Architecture and ambience have long played critical roles in marketing the world’s great wine regions. In past centuries, the denizens of Bordeaux, for instance, erected neoclassical ch