Fast Company

fastcompany.com — Microsoft just revealed its brand-new Xbox One games console and Kinect sensor. The two devices are jam-packed with impressive next-generation technology that will keep gamers and TV watchers enthralled. But here's one thing you may have overlooked about the Xbox One: It's a perfect, permanent, living room spy device.

fastcompany.com — You could say Callie Khouri's career has come full circle. But you'd only be kind of right. The native Texan waited tables for a time in Nashville in the '70s and '80s. Then she went on to write the Academy Award-winning screenplay Thelma & Louise, plus a host of other successful features.

fastcompany.com — French police, it has emerged, have called an official halt to the process of looking for missing persons unless the person in question is a minor, or there is evidence he or she is in danger.

fastcompany.com — Evernote is rolling out new alarm, to-do lists, and pinning functionality for their apps. According to a blog post by Evernote's Andrew Sinkov, it's "our three most requested features rolled into one small package." All three features are included inside Evernote's standard apps; no additional downloads beyond a standard app update are required.

fastcompany.com — Square has been making a splash in the media and marketplace in the U.S. because it's an attempt to bring 21st Century digital payments to an otherwise stagnant market, but until now the company has remained a U.S. and Canada-only service.

fastcompany.com — It is 75 minutes before showtime at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and the Justin Bieber Watch is in full effect. ( OMG!) On the fourth-floor pool deck of the hotel that overlooks the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, a motley collection of MTV marketing partners, entertainment executives, and other shiny Angelenos are enjoying cocktails and squinting at the open-air red carpet.

fastcompany.com — Got a case of mush-mind? It's because your brain is overloaded and your attention is over-divided. How do you cure it? By selectively sprinting into your most important tasks. That's according to Tony Schwartz, an engagement consultant who's worked with the likes of Google, Facebook, and Coca-Cola.