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Dengue fever affects 50 million people, with no cure in sight. But maybe prevention could work instead: Scientists have found a way to get mosquitoes sick with a bacteria that prevents them from carrying the disease.

Pixable already does a nice job of aggregating your friends photos and videos on Facebook (though you may remember it originally offering photo albums-- real printed ones --based on your social feeds). Now, it's stepping into an even more real-time domain by integrating Twitter into its code.

Consumer confidence recently dropped to its lowest level since 1980 . U.S.

The discovery of lager yeast's parentage has implications for brewers, and Diego Libkind, the primary researcher on a new study, is already tapping into some of these ideas. A new discovery has unlocked the secret story of lager beer’s South American origins, and is letting scientists piece together the genetic history of the domesticated microbe that keeps lager cool.

With its banking and financial infrastructure still in tatters, a new mobile service that allows Haitians to make and receive payments via text message is taking off and allowing commerce to flourish. Last year, Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake that caused widespread devastation--a tragedy that puts yesterday's quake, which sent shockwaves of worry up and down the East Coast despite little damage, into stark perspective. The impoverished country is still recovering--but slowly, as several reports have indicated

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Plastic Logic's e-reader may yet live as an educational tool in Russia, just as Apple and Microsoft bid for millions of tablet PCs destined for Turkish schools. The e-education game is getting serious. Plastic Logic has just landed $150 million in investments from a state fund in Russia to bring its ill-fated soft-screened e-reader to the nation's schools.

Almost every car company in the world relies on Renesas computer chips for its electronics. The only factory in the world where Renesas chips are made is in Naka, Japan. Devastated by the March earthquake, the factory had to get quickly back into chips.

A new law in California would make it legal for Chevy Volts to use parking spots equipped with electric chargers. But does the law actually make it harder for electric car owners

If you have $60,000 to spare and like to show off to your neighbors, ClearEdge Power may have the product for you: a giant fuel cell that can power up your house, and perhaps take you entirely off the grid. Bloom Energy burst onto the clean energy scene last year with the Bloom Energy Server (you know it as the Bloom Box), a so-called fuel cell "power plant in a box" that can run on natural gas, hydrogen, or biogas. Bloom has cornered the big business fuel cell market, with installations at eBay's headquarters, multiple AT&T sites, Adobe's headquarters, and more

More than 20 percent are seeing drops of more than 25 percent. One in five small businesses are reporting that profits are plummeting by more than 25 percent compared to last year, says a new survey

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Wikileaks Outs More Diplomatic Cables . As announced by a flurry of tweets from its Twitter account, Wikileaks has released another tranche of data from its secret diplomatic cables haul

Rent The Runway co-founders Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss make as many mistakes as possible as quickly as possible--and then analyze them to figure out how they can improve over time.

Rather than use plastic silverware to combat a common side effect of chemo, patients now can use these silverware-like utensils that don't ruin food. It's a common problem for cancer patients: Chemotherapy changes the taste buds so that using metal silverware suddenly causes a bitter metallic aftertaste. Plastic cutlery is one alternative, but it's not exactly the most environmentally friendly, elegant, or cost-effective option