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A new application for Facebook and iPhones lets residents of small cities submit quality-of-life complaints without picking up the phone or waiting to see someone at City Hall. It's like a cross between 311 and FarmVille--and it works

Scientists are making an effort to quantify the health of our oceans into one easy-to-read score.

The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is launching a wireless store loyalty card scheme that works using existing tech.

Former Inc. 500 company alleges that News Corp. tried to destroy it for its refusal to sell itself to the media giant.

The web is more dangerous than ever. LulzSec, Anonymous, Julian Assange, News Corp. employees--they all make our grandparents wonder if their computers are indeed infected , and require iron-clad protection from McAfee or Symanetc, lest their Windows 98-running Gateway desktops explode.

The language of entrepreneurship, your business's debt ceiling, a profile of Groupon's Andrew Mason, and more. What we talk about when we talk about exits. Barbara Taylor has a blog post in The New York Times that explores the "disconnect between the language of entrepreneurship and the reality of selling a business." Your business's debit ceiling.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Google+ Games Will Cost Developers Less .

A close chemical relative of the fuel in butane cigarette lighters may be what helps keep air travel viable in a post-petroleum world. As affordable petroleum becomes scarcer, it's easy to imagine switching to electric cars or outfitting hydrogen-powered ships with supplementary sails. But it's harder to picture what we might run jumbo jets on in the future

Working out has never been more efficient or a bigger part of a human culture than it is today. We've dug into the history of kinesiology to find the inventions and processes that changed exercise.

Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic? In support of its new Android tablets, Sony just launched a series of web films based on a Rube Goldberg Machine

Look! Another RGM. What is it about Goldberg’s contraptions that’s made them such an enduring commercial form and reliable source of web traffic

As the U.S. slowly abandons its dams, more and more pilot programs pop up for deriving power from tides and river currents.

Tired of watching the Hollywood machine engulf the San Diego Comic-Con, two Pixar artists have taken matters into their own hands and opened Trickster, an enclave for comic book fans, right across the street from the convention center. Whatever you do, don't call them Slamdance for Comic-Con. After years of watching the Hollywood machine slowly engulf the San Diego Comic-Con, Pixar story artists Scott Morse and Ted Mathot this year have staked out a creators' enclave across the street from the convention center.

Apple appears to be gearing up for a fresh assault on a market it's never done hugely well in: Enterprise.

The rental car agencies new car sharing business hits Zipcar where it hurts: cheaper prices and electric cars. Hertz has offered a Zipcar-like carsharing service for years, but you probably didn't notice--the service charged an annual fee, came with many of the hidden cost associated with standard car rentals, and was only available in limited locations. But the company has apparently realized that car sharing can be lucrative when done right, so this week Hertz nixed the old program and replaced it with Hertz on Demand , a carsharing service on steroids