Google regularly receives requests from copyright owners and reporting organizations that represent them to remove search results that link to material that allegedly infringes copyrights. Each request names specific URLs to be removed, and we list the domain portions of URLs requested to be removed under targeted domains. URLs requested to be removed from Search per week What's included? What's not included? The data below consists of the copyright removal requests we've received through our web form for Google Search. It is a partial historical record that includes more than 95% of the copyright removal requests that we have received for Google Search since July 2011. Requests for products other than Google Search (e.g, requests directed at YouTube or Blogger) are not included. Requests submitted ... Continue reading →
This page will automatically update. To submit your questions to Jared Leto, use the 'Make a comment' box below or tweet your questions to @FastCompany with the hashtag #FCChat.Jared Leto has a posse. In fact, they're so loyal they make him seem like a cult leader. There's the million or so who remember him as the actor in Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, or even My So Called Life, way back when. A few million more know him as a bona fide rock star, the singer/guitarist in Thirty Seconds To Mars. To us, he's an innovator. Having reinvented himself a few dozen times, he clearly feels the occasional need to destroy something beautiful. And it's his knack for creative destruction that earned him a ... Continue reading →
Every year, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair wows us with the ingenuity of high school students. This year’s first place winner is particularly impressive. Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old student from Maryland, came up with a paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer 168 times faster than current tests. It’s also 90% accurate, 400 times more sensitive, and 26,000 times less expensive than today’s methods. In short: It’s a lot better. Andraka was inspired to focus on pancreatic cancer because a friend’s brother was killed by the disease. "I became interested in early detection, did a ton of research, and came up with this idea," he says. Andraka (center) with the other winners.Andraka’s dip-stick sensor can test urine or blood for a certain protein (mesothelin) ... Continue reading →
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic (see disclosure) says that the service is preparing for a significant change of direction — by releasing a much simpler version designed to work on mobile. Speaking at the paidContent 2012 event on Wednesday, Mullenweg said that he had been hard at work coming up with a new interface that will eradicate some of the complexity that WordPress is usually associated with. “One of the things I’ve been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface,” he told interviewer Anil Dash. “WordPress it’s a complex tool, it’s like the back of a digital SLR… but that doesn’t work on a phone.” That complexity has become one of the reasons it is ... Continue reading →
Google’s high-profile, $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which closed yesterday, has set the tech world abuzz with speculation on Google’s first steps as it enters the hardware business: They’re going to do a 180-revival of Motorola! No, Motorola is doomed! No, they’re going to shutter Android! Google’s second, much quieter acquisition this week, of San Francisco industrial design studio Mike & Maaike, answers most of those questions. Mike Simonian and Maaike EversMike Simonian, who cofounded the studio in 2005 with his partner, Maaike Evers, told Fast Company in a recent email exchange: “We have recently begun working within Google to help build an industrial design team for Android.” At Google, Simonian and Evers will be able to exercise even more of the creative muscle ... Continue reading →
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FC: You were an early Twitter adopter, an early Google investor, and last year you invested in a small mobile video company called Tout and then used it to announce your retirement. Why focus on social media?O'Neal: There's a lot of big-time people who have others tweet for them, so I want people to know: This is me; this is how I'm doing it. Then when I use Tout on Twitter, people click the link. I've always wanted to be the one that's on the edge of the technological curve. The great Steve Jobs, rest in peace, when the iPhone was first coming out, I used to call him every other day. Can I please get one first? Can I please get one first? He ... Continue reading →
