A Massachusetts physics graduate student and former alt-rock drummer was arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Pentagon and on the Capitol. But unlike most wannabe terrorists, Rezwan Ferdaus appears to have actually understood how to make bombs.READ»
It's called electrocortiography, and it involves a surgical procedure that places groups of electrodes directly onto the surface of a patient's brain.READ»
Most magazines send their unread, surplus issues off to be pulped and recycled. Fast Company usually does the same, but this month we took it a step further: Designer Jens Praet used 27-pounds of shredded Fast Company's and turned ...READ»
Fewer than 9% of eligible voters who belong to the Gen Y demographic chose to vote on November 2. This is an extraordinarily low turnout for a generation poised to replace the dominant Boomers in size and social clout. ...READ»
Clay Johnson is launching an incubator (though he’d rather you didn’t call it that) to help Washington-based politics and media startups become sustainable businesses.READ»
Beltway bible and Most Innovative Company Politico is taking a novel approach in an era where consumers are unwilling to drop a dime on news coverage: charging thousands of dollars for subscriptions. READ»
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been an ongoing back-and-forth for years, but now the dispute is heading for a new battleground: social media.READ»
This past quarter, Google spent $1.34 million on Washington lobbyists, an increase of 41% over last year's spending during the same period. That brings the company's lobbying money up to $2.72 million for the first half of 2010, ...READ»
As Google grows in size, so does its political influence. And, while this may not overly worry most people, there is one man who is keeping a close watch on the search engine firm. He is Consumer Watchdog's John Simpson, and one gets ...READ»
This man is Andrew McLaughlin. A former Googler--he was their Head of Public Policy--he's been hired by the Obama administration as the White House's Deputy Chief Technology Officer, invoking the wrath of a House Oversight Committee ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was whisking its love away for a cruise on its private yacht, and then erecting a paywall around her so that no one could see her. Strange, that.1. The Los Angeles Times has documented what life is ...READ»
Online privacy is a hot potato. VC notables Venrock, Kleiner Perkins, and Accel Partners are all betting big bucks on privacy startups. "Privacy is a big issue, and it's going to get bigger because people realize it can be used ...READ»
While American soccer fans toast their 1-1 win over England on Saturday night, innovation didn't really care, because it was inventing a new ballgame to be played in a new ballpark. With four-legged hairdroids.1. In advance of his ...READ»
After a 13-month siesta, iFive has returned--so imagine just how much innovation has been going on during this mother of all power naps.1. Today we're all waiting, breath a-bated, for Facebook's changes to its privacy settings, which ...READ»
When you've got one of the world's biggest man-made disaster zones on your doorstep, it pays to have an Energy Secretary like Steven Chu. Possessor of an enormous brain, he excels at distilling the big picture of climate change into ...READ»
Look what Facebook just did. While staying very very coy indeed about its internal meeting yesterday over privacy issues, it's just launched a Congress on Facebook page that will "highlight innovative uses of Facebook by members of ...READ»
Look what Facebook just did. While staying very very coy indeed about its internal meeting yesterday over privacy issues, it's just launched a Congress on Facebook page that will "highlight innovative uses of Facebook by members of ...READ»
Today's top gamekeeper-turned-poacher news is that former FTC chair Timothy J. Muris is to join Facebook as a lobbyist in Washington. Muris, who served between 2000 and 2004, is a bit of a consumer hero, seeing as he set up the ...READ»
