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Introducing The Blackline, A Bike To Navigate The Windy CityThe Recommender: Sydney Brownstone, Who Is Starting A Fast Company House Band. Maybe?Why Automakers Want 4G Inside CarsPadBot, The Robotic Avatar For EveryoneLyft’s Ride-Sharing Service Gets A New York City Greenlight, Will Hit The Streets At 7 O’Clock TonightThese Rooftop Solar Panels Double As Extra Housing For Crowded CitiesThis Sainsbury’s Supermarket Is Powered Completely By Food Waste–Which It Has A Lot OfMcLiterary McCups? 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David Lynch Is Designing Women’s Workout WearCold Beer, Wherever You Want It: You Can Take This Collapsible Solar-Powered Fridge AnywhereThis App Tells Google Glass Users Where To Dock A Citi BikeWhy The Jordan Brand’s Lead Designer Left NikeThe Evolution of Product Design As Told By Citizen WatchesA Simulator That Lets You Fight The Giant Monsters From Pacific Rim? 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Can Anyone Make The Perfect Air Conditioner?Proof That Your Moonlighting Gigs Can Earn You More Than Just Extra CashHow To Get Ahead By Admitting How Little You KnowThat Diner Feeling: How Denny’s Became A Weirdly Successful Content MarketerAmazon Fire Phone Review: Ambitious And Inventive, But A Version 1.0 ProductIUSF2014 Up CloseApple Shows A More Human Side With An Ad Depicting Sticker-Strewn ProductGoogle Announces $1 Million Engineering ChallengeTake A 99-Day Break From Facebook–And Let The World KnowEurope Is Trying To Unite Its Electricity Grid–With An AlgorithmAdobe Releases Two Experimental iPhone Apps Powered By PhotoshopGive Your Phone Total Amnesia With This “Snapchat For Everything” AppThe TSA Wants You To Redesign Its Slow LinesSee What It’s Like To Skateboard An Eerily, Beautifully Empty Los AngelesiTunes Is Irrelevant. 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A DC Comics Historian Weighs In On The ControversyHow Sports Data Analytics Is Upsetting The Game All Over AgainHillary Clinton Says Social Media Can Help Conflicting Nations “Find Our Humanity”Emoji Get The David Attenborough Treatment In This Adorable New DocFacebook Still Drives More Traffic Than Any Other Social NetworkInstagram Celebrity And Professional Bro Dan Bilzerian Is Now The Subject Of Instagram Watercolor Portraits, ObviouslyCan’t Read All Those Facebook Posts Now? 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Use These Subject Line Tricks9 Science-Backed Methods For More Productive MeetingsQuote Of The Week: Be Brief Or Be IgnoredCan Women Finally Say What They Want At Work?How To Turn A Mid-Life Crisis Into A Million-Dollar Business6 Ways To Avoid Drifting Through Your CareerMeet The Mastermind Behind 800 New Jobs In MichiganWhy You Should Want To Work With Someone Who BragsIt’s A Good Time To Be A CEO. Everyone Else? Not So Much10 Things You’re Doing at Work That Say “I Don’t Care”5 Types Of Angel Investors You Should AvoidWe’ve Been Thinking About Talent The Wrong Way All AlongA Story In the Cards: The Collaborative Wizardry Behind Making “Magic: The Gathering”Zach Braff On His Giant Kickstarter Experiment, “Wish I Was Here”Vine Star Logan Paul Brings His Six-Second Creativity To New Hanes Campaign