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Innovative Highlights From SXSWSarah Silverman, Michael Cera’s Comedy Collective Jash Launches At SXSWLouis CK Goes Meta In a Promo That Mocks Most PromosNYC Subways Deploy A Touch-Screen Network, Complete With AppsSpaceX Founder Elon Musk Considered Buying Russian Ballistic Missiles, Nukes?!Google, Adidas Partner For Shoes That Talk [Slideshow]Tesla’s Elon Musk Accuses New York Times Reporter Of Ethics Violation In Latest Model S Review RebuttalNASA Employees Do The Harlem ShakeT-Mobile To Ship BlackBerry Z10 To Business Customers In U.S. Next WeekGoogle Close To Settling Street View InvestigationScientists Create Warmer, Friendlier LEDsCan Deep Brain Stimulation Cure Eating Disorders?Would You Buy Gucci Off Your Smartphone?“Killer” or “Slayer”? Language Lessons From Jack The Giant FlopWhat Did You Think of Our March Issue?Gorgeous New Planets? Nope, Just Frying PansCitizenship and TechnologyCitizenship and TechnologyForget Peak Oil, We’re At Peak EverythingWant To Display Your Product Idea At Fenway? There’s A Competition For ThatThe Problem With The Modern Idea IndustryBeacon: A Pay Phone That Saves Lives And Google SearchesA Cavernous Museum Designed For 17,000-Year-Old Cave PaintingsGraffiti Artists Spray Paint A Church Fresco, In Ancient StyleSouth Dakota Passes First Law To Allow Teachers To Carry Guns On School Property10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: Apple Prank Call, Happiest States, And MoreUnbelievable Close-Ups Of The Sun, Taken From This Guy’s BackyardThese Electric Buses Charge Themselves While They DriveClever Apps Hint At How Images Will Change Social NetworkingAlec Baldwin Ridicules Charles Barkley, And His Underpants, for Capital OneThis ATM Gave Away Free Money–If You Promised To Give It AwayWhat’s The Roadmap For Innovation In China?The Co.Labs And Target $75,000 Retail Accelerator Starts HereEnding Violence Against Women To Create DevelopmentTablets Beat Smartphones In Web Traffic For First TimeNetflix Users Play “Nicolas Cage Roulette”; Never LoseEmployers Now Using Sensors To Track Your ProductivityToshiba Tortures Laptops, “Jackass”-StyleThe Newest Shipping Route Is Over The North PoleGerman Court Could Ban Google Maps Over Microsoft PatentWelcome to Co.Labs: We’re Building Software About SoftwareDon’t Automate: Lessons From The Hacks Powering Outbox, The USPS-KillerThe Most Ambitious In-Store Retail iPad Integration We’ve Ever SeenMeet The New 1%: The Tiny Sliver Of Americans Using Tons Of EnergyWatch Microsoft Visualize Viral ContentThese Crazy Science Experiments Are Actually Gorgeous Abstract ArtWith Dblcam, Use Both Your iPhone’s Cameras At OnceAntarctic Lake Serves Fresh Bacteria, Amid Discovery On What The Continent Looked Like Before IceThis Digital Helpline Will Explain The World To Robot BrainsThese Amazing Images Are What Happens When You Ask A Stranger To Draw Your Facebook PhotoThe Long Apprenticeship of Roman CoppolaInside Amazon’s Open-Source Original Content StrategyBlood Vinyl, Spacesuits, Vagina Rings, and 14 More Items of Music Merch You Won’t Believe Are Real7 Of The Biggest Lies In Graphic DesignThe Hare Finally Beats the Tortoise: How Brands Can Get Up To Speed For A Real-Time WorldYahoo Considering “Significant Acquisitions.” If You Were Marissa Mayer, What Would You Buy?Google Cuts 1,200 Jobs At Motorola MobilityHow The Catholic Church Should Prepare For The Pope To Become The #Pope80 Percent Of Success Is Showing Up–But Where?Executive Coach Vs. The Octopus: Embracing The Business Lessons Of BiologyNot So Fast: 10 Hasty Mistakes Startup Founders MakeHow To Bounce Back Stronger After You Blow It At WorkThe Undermining Myth Of The “Idea Guy”North Korea Scraps Peace Pacts With South Korea As UN Votes For More SanctionsA Self-Repairing Computer System Debuts After 15 Years Of ResearchFunny Or Die’s Billy Eichner On How to Be Fearless, And Maybe A Little RudeWhy New Zealand Is A Great Place To Work If You’re A WomanThe DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 SittingsFinally, A Smart Reason To Send Smartphone Pics Of Your Genitals To Total StrangersWatch: The Only Harlem Shake Worthy Of Your Design DepartmentJoe Kennedy Leaving PandoraOur Pipes Are Full Of Power That We’re WastingA Sofa Inspired By Icebergs Adrift4 Bizarre Design Solutions Inspired By NatureLive From New York, It’s Justin Timberlake (And The New Myspace)The Pay Phones Of The FutureDon’t Miss Doug Aitken’s Stunning Latest ShowYou Can Now Build Your Own Printer That Prints Living CellsA Former Machine Hall Becomes A Floating Innovation HubNews Feed Tries To Solve Facebook’s Hardest Problem: EngagementGross! An Artist Makes Big Macs And Raw Chicken SurrealUnited Airlines’ Rebranding SnafuSee The New Facebook News FeedElizabeth Spiers On The Sheryl Sandberg “Lean In” ControversyEric Wareheim Weirds Out Beach House With “Wishes”Hollywood Looks To Cash In On The 10-Year-Old Behind Caine’s ArcadeThe Stunning Personal Projects Of An Unsung Master Of Modern DesignComplete This Sentence On Vine: “Innovation Is…”Boy Scouts Can Now Earn Merit Badges By Building Smartphone GamesPower Up And Call Out With This Reassuringly Simple Bluetooth SpeakerDave Pell’s Tips On Building A Huge Email Newsletter Around Your ProjectAfter Six Months On The Job At Yahoo, Marissa Mayer Earns $1.12 Million BonusIn Facebook’s Redesigned News Feed, An Algorithm’s Band-AidThe Accidental Poetry of Google’s Predictive SearchIs Peak Oil A Myth?Beats Gets $60 Million For Music Streaming, But It’s Not From AppleWatch: Thousands Of Ball Bearings Scatter In This Kinetic SculptureIs Intel Making Apple’s Next iPhone, iPad Chips?A Brand To Help Schools Get Kids MovingGood Lord! Vatican Needs 2.8PB Of Hard Disk Space To Digitize 40 Million Pages Of Ancient Manuscripts8 Experimental Tools To Change Media For The BetterEuropean Court: Live-Streaming TV Broadcasts Is IllegalCloud Shield, Twine’s Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of ThingsWhat It Would Look Like If Tide, Glad, and Nivea Ditched Product PackagingShine Bright In The Night, With This LED-Infused Cycling JacketWhy Can’t The Persistent Hacking Of Yahoo Mail Be Stopped?Without Facebook’s Bob Baldwin, You Might Never Have A Birthday Party AgainThe 7 Steps New York Can Take To Reduce Its Carbon Footprint 90% By 2050Nathan Fielder Has Fun With Marketing in “Nathan For You”How Rebuilding A Culture Can Reap Dramatic Results: Meet The Viral Wizards Duval Guillaume ModemWhere Getting a Mild Electrical Shock Is Part of Your Job: How Tough Mudder Rewards Achievement Outside The OfficeMicrosoft Behind Law Limiting Google’s Collection Of Schoolkids’ DataNokia Joins Apple In Billion-Dollar Court Case Vs. SamsungVolvo Now Using Radar, Cameras On Cars To Improve Cyclists’ SafetyLooking For An Innovative Edge? You’ll Find It Between The SheetsBeing Aware Of Your Brain’s Limits Is The First Step To Tackling Thorny Business DecisionsWhy Your Company Is Not “The Warby Parker Of X”Feedback Made This Bird Sculpture Intelligent–And It Works The Same For YouGot A Great Idea For An App? Have Someone Else Bring It To MarketCan’t Buy Me Like: Why Companies Have To Romance The Same Consumers They Once BoughtWhy Facebook And Twitter Are Not Most Innovative CompaniesTime Inc. To Separate From Time WarnerBurrito Lovers Rejoice: Chipotle Has Updated Its AppDesign Wizard Behind “Oz The Great and Powerful” Makes It PopUsing Molecules For Memory Could Mean 1,000 Times More Storage3D Printed ShoesCensors In China Seem To Like The 7 P.M. Nightly NewsBill Gates Gives SXSW Education Conference Keynote, Cites $9 Billion “Tipping Point” In Digital LearningWork/Life Balance For SinglesTwitter Changes Search Function On Mobile AppsCan You Pack a Suitcase Like Sex-Crazed Management Consultant Don Cheadle?Harry Potter Has a HangoverWarhol’s Plywood Brillo Boxes Turned Into Foam PoufsThe Tap Project Turns Facebook into a Fundraising Pipeline for UNICEFA Battery That Stretches And Bends, Then Returns To ShapeGoogle Drops Some Serious Aesthetic Knowledge on the Masses with “Art Talks”How Search Engine Data Can Identify Unknown Side Effects In Drugs“Oldboy” Auteur Park Chan-wook Loses Nothing In Translation With His English Language Debut, “Stoker”How Do You Get People To Eat More Veggies? Genetic Engineering!No, Programming Is Not For EveryoneTraditional Chinese Landscapes? Nope, They’re Pictures Of LandfillsAre Humans Headed For Extermination By Robots?The Email Clash Of CivilizationsThe Secret To A Happy Marriage? Chores, Not FlowersSmallest Mobile Phone Ever UnveiledDove Canada Uses Photoshop Trojan Horse to Shame Potential Body-ShamersGen. Petraeus Linked To Secret Iraq Torture Centers: ReportTest QuoteAre These New Startups The Future Of Media?What American Startups Can Learn From The Cutthroat Chinese Software IndustryMeet LaFerrari. It’s A Hybrid!Italian Bank Unveils Palm-Reading Pay SystemHow Oakley Tested Their Wearable Computing Platform In The Mountains Of ArgentinaAll Hail The Tattoo Shop That Found A Cool Use For QR CodesTimes Square Takes Lesson of Hurricane Sandy to Heart, With Repurposed Wood Installation3-D Printing Is So Last Year, Welcome To The World Of 4-D PrintingBranding Mozilla’s New Mobile OS By Setting The Firefox FreeJaguar Hypes New F-Type with Brand Content Film, “Desire,” and Damian LewisThis Man Shot 40,000 Elephants Before He Figured Out That Herds Of Cows Can Save The PlanetWhat Repurposing A Genitalia Cake Pan Teaches Us About Creativity5 Lessons In UI Design, From A Breakthrough MuseumKony 2012, One Year LaterWill FreedomPop Disrupt U.S. Broadband With Free Internet?Why Ebay Redesigned To Look More Like PinterestGoogle And Volkswagen Devise An App To Measure Smileage (Yes, Driving Can Be Fun)This Sleek Bike Helmet Makes Sure That Hit And Run Drivers Get CaughtRumors Say Beats In Talks With Apple Over Streaming MusicHugo Chavez’s Death Lights Up Twitter With Rumors, Recriminations, RemembrancesBeauty Among The Ruins: See Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Abandoned Places4 Multitasking Tips From Creative Polymath James FrancoDoes Karma Herald A Future For Social Hardware?Take A Peek Inside Starbucks’s $35 Million Leadership Lab [Video]Samsung Buys 3% Of Sharp, Escalates Mobile Device WarMarissa Mayer’s Axing Of Work-From-Home Policy Meant To Be Yahoo Morale BoosterMicrosoft Fined $730 Million Over Browser BeefThis Is The Last Day To Enter Our Design Awards!Facebook Overhauling News Feeds To Foreground Instagram, Spotify, Rdio, More: ReportCarrie Fisher Will Play Princess Leia–Again–In The New Star Wars MovieInterview Tips For When Someone Asks, “What Questions Do You Have For Us?”How To Identify And Conquer Entrepreneurial Growing Pains6 Steps For More Effective DelegationCan A Corporate Tchotchke Ever Beat A Bonus?Must-Have Apps To Make The Most Of SXSWNews Corp. Gets Into The Tablet Business With AmplifyRoku 3 Gets Faster, Makes It Easier To Find Shows, And Plugs Headphones Into The RemoteWorld’s First 3D Printing Pen Gets $2 Million Through KickstarterJon Stewart Is Taking A Summer VacationIkea Style Meets Marriott To Create Moxy HotelsA Fortune Teller’s Tool? Nope Just A Crystal Ball LampWill A Climate Disaster Destroy Our Global Economy?A Suspiciously High Density Of Pot Dispensaries Appears In Silicon ValleyHugo Chávez Dead At 58Apple And Ferrari Have Plans To Expand In-Car Entertainment DealA Wall Of Tiny Fans That Blow Only When You Draw NearWatch: Steven Holl Explains The Logic Behind A MasterpieceHow Etsy Attracted 500 Percent More Female EngineersHow Does Your Commute Compare To Those Around The Country? A New Map Can Tell YouJawbone, Fitbit, Adidas: How Nike Responds To Competitive ThreatsfMRI Scan Detects Mental PicturesHow To Deal With Negative PeopleBrain Implant Reduces OCD SymptomsGoogle To Launch Competitor To Amazon PrimeHow Google Hires Without HRNick Kristof Explains Why He’s Using Video Games To Help Women In The Developing WorldA Look Inside The Sketchbooks Of 10 Terrific CreativesGrimes Teaches You How to Make Music (Results May Vary)Baidu Launches English-language Antivirus SoftwareThe Next Big UI Idea: Gadgets That Adapt To Your SkillFBI Seeking Leads For JFK Airport Mystery DronePacking Your Bags? Moveline expanding across the countryAn Office Built Around An Indoor GardenKickstarting: A 3-D Mouse Worn On Your FingerThis Marketing Stunt Makes Elevator Users Accessory To MurderThis New Model For How You Use Electricity Could Save You BigPocket Cycle: A New App For Couples Trying To ConceiveA YouTube Streaming Music Service Will Launch Later This YearEating Badly When Pregnant Might Make Your Kid FatPut Your Cat On The Map (The Interactive Map of the World’s Cats That Really Exists)The Secret To Staying Motivated? Optimism, Not AngerThe DRM Chair Self-Destructs After Just 8 UsesWith Data Viz And GPS, Fuseproject Remakes The Game Of GolfBioLite’s New Add-On Lets You Cook And ChargeGoogle Controls Too Much Of The Smartphone Industry, Says Controlling Chinese GovernmentA New Ultra-Cheap LED Light Looks And Acts Like An Incandescent BulbRIP Crawley And Darmody: How And Why You Should Kill Your Best PeopleHoly Hell, Look At The New $3.9 Million Lamborghini VenenoIs This The Summer Home Of The Future?Google Joins NFC Forum’s Board Of Directors, As Our Wireless Pay Future Comes Into FocusThis Soccer Ball Generates Energy While You Play, And You Can Buy It NowEmbracing the Shake: Why Limitations Drive CreativityWhen Innovation Goes Wrong: “Genius On Hold” And The Tragic Inventor Archetype101 Typographic Tributes To David Bowie, Collected On One Glamorous PosterGalaxy S IV Rumors: Bigger, Better, Eye-Based ScrollingRethinking Public Space: B.C. Biermann’s Augmented Reality Urban ArtWhy The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer InterfaceAuti-Sim, The Game That Startlingly Reconstructs Life As An Autistic ChildGet Ready For Apple’s Cheap iPhones, Colorful iPhones, And iPhone 5S Due In JulyThe Kernel, European Tech Publication, Shuts Down After Tempestuous Short LifeTricks From Couples’ Therapy For Dealing With A Boss Who’s WrongThe Sting Of The Queen Bee: Tales Of Tyrannical LeadershipA Convincing Argument For The Hands-Off BossAnd THEN She Said That Gossip Helps Your Career!How To Hire Like A ProDefining The Word “Entrepreneur” For The 21st CenturyThe Truth Behind “Secret” Innovation At Nike, Apple, Google XRupert Murdoch To Launch Fox Sports 1, A Competitor To ESPNTrying To Woo Animators, Disney Accidentally Invents “The Paperman Method”What’s Really Motivating All Those Tinder Users?TweetDeck Is Going Through Some ChangesMeet the Creator: Behind The Kids’ Home Movie That Morphs Into a Hollywood BlockbusterScience Says: Nasty Commenters Can Destroy A Website’s Brand Over TimeSide Seat Swivels To Make Sitting Less SedentaryLeadership From Star TrekNetflix App Not Coming to BlackBerry 10 Anytime SoonThis Viral Video Will Change How You Think About Wealth Distribution in the U.S.Should Smart Gadgets Bully Us Into Making Better Choices?Budweiser: We’re Not Watered DownAddicted to the Internet? Tell Us About It!When Dogs Die Of ShamePrice Promotions May Be Killing Your Brand: Here’s What You Can Do About ItPublic Opinion On Twitter Differs From Overall Public OpinionThe “Internet of Things” Could Save 9 Billion Tons of CarbonWhite House Wants To Let You Unlock Your Cell PhoneWatch: A Music Video For Typography LoversCan Next-Generation Video Conferencing Change The Way We Communicate?Microsoft, Google, And HP’s Mission In MyanmarAgLocal Empowers Chefs To Meat Their MatchHere’s How Artificial Intelligence Could Kill Us AllAmerican Red Cross Launches Tornado AppIs Working On Wall Street Actually The Most Ethical Career Choice?Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, And The Pros And Cons Of Working From HomeZipongo Knows What You Like To Eat And Creates Personalized Meal PlansDo You Know What the Most Annoying Sound In the World Is? Volkswagen DoesWatch: The “House” Theme Song, Played On Fruits And VegetablesMichelle Obama’s First Google+ Hangout Is Happening NowHow Making Your App (Temporarily) Free Can Make You Stacks Of CashWomen in the Catholic ChurchLive-Blogging The National Day of UnpluggingTwo Toy Scientists Get Cremed By Another Oreo SeparatorCan Tree Mortality Predict Human Mortality?Just $50M: Bob Hope’s Modernist Lair, Designed By LautnerAdmire the Natural World and Beyond, Without a Plane TicketWhat Twitter Reveals About What Makes Us SickReplace Your iPhone Interface With A Dieter Rams ClassicPopVox Asks: Should Congress Furlough Itself?Seeking New Employees, Foxconn Goes Deeper Into ChinaMeet The New Energy Secretary, Ernest MonizJapanese Government Warns Against Google’s App StoreFacebook’s Ongoing Quest To Make Money From MobileHow Are You Feeling Today? A New Mood-Measuring App Can Tell YouHalf The Sky Turns Women’s Empowerment Into A Facebook GameWhy Accountability Is Key To Successful Workplace FlexibilityMicrosoft’s Vision Of The Future Is Trapped In A BoxExtreme Customer Service: Lessons From Companies That Go Above And BeyondThe Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your ClassHow Serious Play Leads To Breakthrough InnovationMicrosoft To Become Film Distributor Via Xbox 360 LiveSomething Rotten? Microsoft Gets A Billion-Dollar Danish Tax BillWould You Pay Facebook For Sponsored Posts To Dramatically Up Your “Like” Rate? (Updated)5 Hiring Best Practices That Set The Bar For SuccessThe Question Every Entrepreneur Has To AnswerGitHub’s Frustration-Based Approach To Innovation“Slashers”: When Your Career Is Three CareersWhy Working From Home Is The Worst Of Both WorldsBecause Of Steve Jobs’s First Public iPhone Call, Starbucks Still Gets Orders For 4,000 LattesBreakthrough For HIV-Infected Babies As Baby Born With Virus Apparently Cured