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Google's got a brain. An actual electronic brain. The New York Times has news that inside Google's high-tech R&D "X" laboratory the search giant has been creating a simulation of the human brain.

The simulations begun by Henry Markram and team on the Blue Brain Project in 2005 constitute the basis for the much more ambitious Human Brain Project, which is intended to capture the workings of the entire organ. Markram and colleagues will learn next year whether the project will be funded

Twitter and NASCAR are debuting a new augmented television project for Sunday's Pocono 400. The partnership goes way beyond hashtags. NASCAR and Twitter are unveiling a new sports product at the Pocono 400 race on Sunday, June 10: A co-branded racing page for fans to follow the event in full-time.

The asteroid Vesta In a widely anticipated announcement today, the new company Planetary Resources revealed their plans for near-Earth asteroid domination. The group has mapped out a multi-stage process to map, observe, capture, tow and eventually mine asteroids for valuables. “A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid contains the equivalent of all the platinum group metals mined in history,” reads the company’s press release .

At $5.5 million and growing, Pebble becomes the most highly funded Kickstarter project ever.

How do you know when to stop the tweaking and release a product?

Want to spend more time working on a project than managing it? Try this tool. For a small business owner, collaborating on projects—especially ones with multiple users in multiple locations with a variety of employees, vendors, and clients—has never been easier.

Digital Project Manager, Fast Company Fast Company's growing Marketing team is looking for an experienced Digital Project Manager to oversee strategic planning as well as day-to-day implementations of custom advertising opportunities with the site. The ideal candidate will be a creative digital thinker with experience in online ad operations and ad sales, along with a deep familiarity with the breadth of technologies and processes used in online advertising.

How many students does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? Tony Anderson, Morehouse College ’08, can answer that.

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you ever wanted to glimpse into Albert Einstein's thoughts, now you can. Last week, the complete catalog of about 80,000 documents written by or addressed to Einstein—letters, postcards, notebooks, and other papers—was made available online by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project (EPP) at Caltech.

Patience requires absolute control over your thoughts, words, and deeds. Here's how you can ace it

You may not want to hear some of these things--but your project will be better for it. Hiring the right consultant is tough, especially since there often is no physical product to evaluate. Aside from checking credentials and references, your decision often rests largely on what a consultant says.

You may not want to hear some of these things--but your project will be better for it.

What happens to entrepreneurs who refuse to forgive themselves for their mistakes?

Wrong information and lack of technology makes contracting TB especially deadly in areas affected with HIV and AIDS, according to NGO Project Hope