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Behind the Music Devendra Banharts Visual Art Takes Center Stage (13 March 03:52) |
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The Us Weekly readers who know freak-folk musician Devendra Banhart as the hippie-haired beardo on the arm of Natalie Portman probably won't recognize him now. The Portman thing ended a whi... |
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Do Sharks Need Protection From Us (13 March 03:37) |
| Used in everything from soup to nutritional supplements and skincare products, sharks are a multi-billion dollar, global, mostly unregulated industry. Now conservationists want to declare ei... |
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Only 10 Tickets Left to Innovation Uncensored! (13 March 03:02) |
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No joke: this is your last chance to get a ticket to attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference on April 21.Who will be there? Along with the editors and writers from this magaz... |
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Great Moments in Photoshop History Happy 20th Anniversary! (13 March 12:32) |
| Complex Magazine rounds up their 50 favorite Photoshop moments in honor of the software's 20th birthday.
Photoshop turns 20 this year, and in honor of 20 years of making the impossible possi... |
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You Saw the Exhibition Now Buy the Art (13 March 12:31) |
| The Guggenheim is auctioning off the works displayed in its recent exhibition, Contemplating the Void.
Recently, we brought you a slideshow preview of a lovely exhibition at the Guggenheim, ... |
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WANTED The JakPak a Jacket That Converts Into a Tent (13 March 12:30) |
| Finally! Our wildest dreams for hobo-tech can now be had for $250. As a regular reader of FastCompany.com, you know that we keep sharp about developments in hobotech: From hobo-conventions f... |
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Clever Video Installation Encourages Charitable Giving (13 March 12:27) |
| Using a video projection and text-message billing, a new project opens up hearts and wallets to problem of homelessness.
A problem like homelessness hides in plain sight: It's easy not to g... |
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Tweetmaster General Evan Williams Touts Twitter as a Worldwide Force for Democracy (13 March 12:26) |
| Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, has given a lengthy interview to the BBC World Service, in which he claims that social media is fundamental to the spread of democracy. Or shou... |
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FCC Scrutinizing NBC-Comcast Deal May Take a Year (12 March 11:56) |
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Although the NBC Universal-Comcast hook-up was announced at the end of last year, it's taken three months for the FCC and the Justice Department to decide whether they're going to scrutiniz... |
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Apple Reveals More About iBooks (12 March 11:02) |
| Apple's iPad went on pre-order for the lucky Amer'cans today (the rest of us have to wait an interminable extra week or so) but Apple also revealed a little more about its iBooks effort. Gue... |
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Bow to Your Robot Overlor Er We Mean Check Out This Butler and Housemaid of Tomorrow! (12 March 11:00) |
| We've joked about the robocalypse a lot, but robot tech really is developing at one hell of a clip. And you may be rubbing, um, shoulders with robo-house assistants sooner than you think, as... |
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Infographic Tracking a Toxic Asset (12 March 10:33) |
| NPR's Planet Money produces an astounding infographic that shows just how bad a bet the banks made when they went crazy for bundles of subprime mortgages.
Toxic assets brought our economy t... |
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Virgin Media to Start Trialing Overground Fiber-Optic Broadband in the UK (12 March 10:31) |
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Inhabitants of the picturesque village of Woolhampton, 50 miles west of London, are set to be guinea pigs for an interesting broadband experiment. Virgin Media is to trial running fiber-opt... |
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Google-Mapping Your Life Which Way to Omelet-Town (12 March 09:50) |
| Christoph Niemann's latest project is an atlas of daily life.
Maps aren't just for getting around anymore; they've become so ubiquitous--and so easy to manipulate--that they're more like raw... |
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Infographic of the Day How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor (12 March 09:43) |
| How can 1 in 7 people be malnourished in the modern world? A beautifully illustrated video shows the causes. To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders... |
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Hot New NYC Restaurant The Collective Will Specialize in Leftovers (12 March 09:28) |
| For the Meat Packing District eatery due to open March 17, designers ICrave hired artists on Craigslist and Etsy, a plumber who also designs lighting fixtures in styrofoam, a former Swiss go... |
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Madonna Inks Teenage Fashion Perfume Deals Beats World to Material Girl Joke (12 March 09:18) |
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Anything that Stella McCartney can do, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie Insert Your Name Here And Win A Prize! obviously feels she can do better. She's just inked a deal with Ic... |
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Microsofts Courier Is Already Doomed A Simple iPad App Shows Why (12 March 09:16) |
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The tech world was surprised when leaks about Microsoft's Courier tablet concept surfaced, because it seemed MS had something really clever for once. But the Courier faces Appley doom. And ... |
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Doritos Mega-Chip Parody Comes in Apple Flavor (12 March 06:48) |
| If you think that Doritos has gone down the same road that Cheetos did, with its supersized snack--the kind of thing you'd need to buy an extra seat for should you be popping one of these on... |
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Converse Starts a New Business on the Side (12 March 06:00) |
| Converse are the lo-fi sneakers that everyone loves--precisely because of their can't change, won't change-ness. And now, with a little help from Takahiro Miyashita, designer of now-extant, ... |
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Google vs China Claws Come Out Search Giant Sounds Like Sovereign Nation (12 March 05:45) |
| The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it's been elevated to "fist fight" status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning a... |
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Barnes Noble Announces iPad App Will Apple Really Let it Fly (12 March 02:12) |
| Apple's history of eliminating apps that compete with its own is as old as the App Store itself. So why, exactly, does Barnes & Noble think they can get away with submitting its eReader ... |
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Microsoft Survey Shows That Utilities Arent Exactly Embracing the Smart Grid (12 March 11:59) |
| Microsoft, which is invested in the Smart Grid with its own Microsoft Hohm energy monitoring app, recently surveyed about 200 utilities to get some insight on how fast smart meters and other... |
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iPad Pre-Orders Begin at 830 AM EST Tomorrow Start Practicing Your Speed-Refreshing (12 March 07:46) |
| Okay, Apple fanatics, publishing hopefuls, and reckless early adopters: tomorrow is your day. Start warming up your refresh finger (mine's the right middle finger--it's like I'm saying "scre... |
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Maya Romanoff Celebrates 40 Years of Design History with Tie Dye and Pink Socks (12 March 07:07) |
| Maya Romanoff, the man who made tie-dye hip for non-hippies, celebrated four decades of creating drop-dead wall coverings last night at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. Resplendent in p... |
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Logos Get Lost in the Supermarket Heres Why (12 March 06:37) |
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Have you seen Logorama, the movie comprised entirely of animated logos, that just won the Oscar for best animated short film? It's an excellent representation of the technicolor tapestry of... |
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Foursquare vs Gowalla Inside the Check-In Wars (12 March 03:54) |
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If you ever visit the downtown Manhattan offices of Foursquare, the popular location-based social game for smartphones, don't say the word Gowalla. When I made that mistake during a visit t... |
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BART Gets Official Augmented Reality App Couldnt Find the Train Is No Longer a Viable Excuse (12 March 03:47) |
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BART, in partnership with San Francisco-based developer Junaio, released its first official augmented reality app--or, more accurately, its first official augmented reality layer.
Augmente... |
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Maya Romanoff Celebrates 40 Years of Design History ith Tie Dye and Pink Socks (12 March 03:46) |
| Maya Romanoff, the man who made tie-dye hip for non-hippies, celebrated four decades of creating drop-dead wall coverings last night at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. Resplendent in p... |
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Crib Sheet Mozillas Mitch Kapor Lotus-Leafer or Berkeley Agitator (12 March 02:48) |
| Just how do you go about introducing Mitch Kapor? Designer of Lotus 1-2-3, founder of the Open Source Applications Foundation, first chair of the Mozilla Foundation, current chair of OneWebD... |
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Red Steel 2 Director on Motion Control Gaming Making a First-Person Brawler (12 March 02:44) |
| This month, Western-meets-Samurai Anime game Red Steel 2 takes a giant leap forward in translating players' movements into epic on-screen swordfights. Creative director Jason Vandenberghe gi... |
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Click Buy Repeat Consumers Flocking to Virtual Shopping More Than Ever (12 March 01:32) |
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It's been the retailing story for years--and new research says it still is! Yes, online sales continue to soar, recession be damned. We were all probably at least vaguely aware of this phen... |
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Charities Offering More Jobs Better Pay in 2010 (12 March 01:30) |
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Apart from good karma--especially given the recent tragedies in Haiti and Chile--working for a charity will also offer good career prospects in 2010. According recent findings from Professi... |
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Logos Are Losing Their Way in the Supermarket Heres Why (12 March 01:16) |
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Have you seen Logorama, the movie comprised entirely of animated logos, that just won the Oscar for best animated short film? It's an excellent representation of the technicolor tapestry of... |
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Four Apps From the Google Marketplace Worth Installing Right Now (12 March 12:31) |
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The launch of the Google Apps Marketplace means GOOG's giving every Web service the same privilege Buzz had: integration with Gmail, Docs, Calendar and the rest of the GApps gang. If you ad... |
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Believable Rumor iPhone 40 Software Includes Multitasking (12 March 12:29) |
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Some tech rumors pop up then fade quickly into obscurity, while others just keep coming back--one of the biggest of this sort concerns multitasking on the iPhone. It's here again, centered ... |
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Tweetsii Taps Twitter Locations Mashes-Up Gowalla and Foursquare in the Mix (12 March 12:26) |
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As location-based apps proliferate, so does the need for umbrella services that can aggregate data from multiple networks. Tweetsii, which is being introduced at SXSW, is one such service t... |
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What If Your Postage Stamp Was the Letter--Or an Entire Book (12 March 12:24) |
| Who says print is dead? Rotterdam designer Richard Hutten produces a stamp-sized book for the Dutch postal service.
"Hey, did you read the stamp I sent you?" There's no need for a letter whe... |
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This Underwear Is Bananas Literally (12 March 12:24) |
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Banana hammock, anyone? AussieBum has cheekily released a range of boxers and briefs made partially from sustainable banana fiber--a world first, according to the company. The lightweight, ... |
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Googles Blue Dot Alerts Shoppers to The Last Tickle Me Elmo On Earth (12 March 12:19) |
| Google has just added a nifty little 'blue dot' feature to its mobile Shopping search engine. Anyone with either an iPhone, Palm WebOS phone, or any Android-powered device will be able to di... |
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The Worlds Greenest Homes (11 March 11:58) |
| From a 5,000-square-foot family home in rural New York to majestic hillsides outside Santiago, Chile, with stops in Hamburg, Hong Kong and Seattle; Planet Green goes inside some of the most ... |
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DBA Wants to the be the Muji of Green Design (11 March 11:47) |
| Let's admit that most green consumer products look terrible--if it's made out of recyclables, odds are, it also looks like it was made by someone wearing patchouli and dreadlocks. DBA, ... |
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Karl Lagerfeld Becomes Fashions Sarah Palin With Climate-Skeptic Runway Show (11 March 11:44) |
| Chanel's legendary designer flips the bird to climate science, with a 240-ton "iceberg" created for his latest ready-to-wear collection.
Fashion makes a mint using calculated provocations a... |
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Cities Go Gaga for Google Fiber With Glowsticks! Flashmobs! Twistee Treats! An Icy Lake Jump! (11 March 10:35) |
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Google's announcement that it was contemplating a move into the ISP business with an ultra-high speed fiber network has sparked a municipal cage match.
No one knows exactly how much Google... |
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Verizons Bringing 4G Speeds in Mid-2011 But Wave Buh-Bye to Unlimited Data (11 March 10:32) |
| Verizon's just revealed its going to have Long Term Evolution (LTE) handsets ready for mid-2011, which is six months earlier than it had previously said it would be available. It looks like ... |
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Pink Floyd to EMI We Dont Need No Digital Singles (11 March 10:30) |
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Although it's been clinically proven that sympathy for major record labels is a medical impossibility, some people may be feeling a slight twinge of compassion towards EMI*. Yesterday, OK G... |
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What If Your Postage Stamp Was The Letter - Or An Entire Book (11 March 09:50) |
| Who says print is dead? Rotterdam designer Richard Hutten produces a stamp-sized book for the Dutch postal service."Hey, did you read the stamp I sent you?" There's no need for a letter when... |
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3-D Printing Whole Buildings in Stonein Space This Printer Rocks (11 March 09:08) |
| Enrico Dini's brilliant-or-crazy (or both) prototype machine prints entire buildings in solid rock... On the MOON!
In Pisa, Italy, mad genius Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon.... |
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Infographic of the Day The Best Jobs in America (11 March 08:59) |
| What jobs earn the most, and will be most plentiful, in the coming decade? Recently, CNN.com produced a Top 100 list of the best jobs in America. And it wasn't particularly compelling until ... |
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MIT Media Lab Unwraps Its New Digs (11 March 08:58) |
| The building will now host MIT's most storied hothouse for interactive design innovation.
Last Friday, MIT opened the doors on it's newest big budget building, a spacious complex for the MI... |
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