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There was one recent positive survey, but test after test has found that people aren't so psyched when smart meters arrive in their home. They may not have a choice. There are actually two electrical grids being built in the U.S

In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment. If you were concerned you had HIV (and lived in America), it would be easy enough to get some blood drawn at a clinic near your house, and wait a few days (or even hours) for the results.

Dangerous roads, rubbernecking at accidents, even running out of juice on your EV: All can be solved by the winners of the Department of Transportation's Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge, which found new ways for cars to talk to each other. Traffic is generally accepted as a necessity of modern life, but it doesn't have to be. We don't have traffic because there are too many cars, we have traffic because people are bad drivers and don't have enough information to make smart decisions

Next month, Bloomberg will broadcast a documentary television series featuring the successes and struggles of 11 start-ups trying to hit it big in New York City. Could TechStars be Shark Tank for start-ups? Replace Mark Cuban with Mark Suster, and you just might have a hit

The outraged mayor of Vilnius is sick of cars parking in his bike lanes. So sick of them, he's now crushing them personally. The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, was sick of cars parking in no parking zones and bike lanes

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A new virus targeting Android-powered smartphones has been uncovered by CA security researcher Dinesh Venkatesan.

A debt deal may have been reached, but experts from all over the political spectrum say small businesses are unlikely to see benefits anytime soon. After weeks of heated debate , Congress and the White House have finally reached a debt deal to save the United States from defaulting. But according to experts, the deal—and the political bickering that came with it—will do little to help small businesses.

Charles Monnet is responsible for you being concerned about polar bears drowning in ice-less Arctic waters. But did his support for wildlife get him suspended from his government post?

A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America.

"July's small business data cheers me up," says an economist. Small businesses across the U.S. added 50,000 people to payrolls in July, continuing the trend of small increases in hiring that started nearly two years ago.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Twitter Is $800 Million Richer

Knowing how much all of you enjoy car-computer analogies (not!), let me offer another. When a person buys a Honda Civic, they don't expect it to drive like a BMW. They do expect it to run, however, especially on the first day of ownership

After Hotels.com founder Bob Diener sold to IAC in 2003, he went to kite-surf camp in Costa Rica.

Break a business plan into bite-sized pieces, to focus on what matters most right now. The second of a three-part series. Read part one here.