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This is the first time someone who is not current alive was selected as the Most Fascinating Person, but Steve Jobs deserved the title.

Steve Jobs is the Most Fascinating Person of 2011. Barbara Walters revealed her choice on her annual special.

While last week's shutdown of MegaUpload is of huge interest in itself, but a wave of aftershocks and side-effects are proving equally fascinating to watch. In addition to causing all sorts of problems for legitimate users of file-sharing services, there is no avoiding the fact that certain elements of the piracy scene are in a mess. But amazingly, still the beat goes on.

Heron of Alexandria created over a startling 80 inventions during his lifetime, and most of them relied on the properties of air and water. One of the most fascinating? The first ever vending machine, created in the first century C.E.

When Google announced it had added 20 additional museums to its indoor mapping service Wednesday, the most interesting part of the story was...