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In an industry littered with excess packaging, it sounds like an impossible goal. And the Texas startup isn't just targeting waste, it's also going after food deserts, too. In an industry littered with excess packaging, it sounds like an impossible goal: in.gredients , a startup out of Austin, Texas, wants to create the first zero-waste, packaging-free grocery store in the U.S.

The U.S. cellphone market has just turned a very significant corner, ccording to Nielsen: The majority of new phones being sold are, for the first time, smartphones

The latest travel trend is incorporating tech into offerings at hotels, airports, on airplanes and more. Virgin America and Ace Hotel in NYC have announced partnerships with Google to provide guests with Chromebooks for free on select flights. iPads, however, are already lots of other places

At the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'll see more web and mobile app companies--even tiny startups--than in years past.

The Secret Service recently spilled the beans on their anti-cybercrime investigations. Fake accounts on underground websites? Elaborate multinational credit card fraud investigations with Turkish law enforcement

Nokia's recent woes multiplied this week as the beleaguered Finnish firm shuttered online stores in the U.S.

Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you can speed up your prototyping process to get your invention or product to market faster. One of the most famous stories of prototyping done quickly, cheaply and spot-on came from the inventor of the cyclone vacuum

A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. Blind and visually impaired individuals may soon be walking easier with “virtual canes.” A new device developed by a team affiliated with Israel's Hebrew University allows users to detect all objects within 10 meters for safe navigation. The cane uses sonar-like technology, turning users into virtual batmen and batwomen

Whoops. Diet soda might have no calories, but that doesn't keep it from growing your waistline. A new study finds that diet drinkers might be even worse off than regular soda drinkers.

The walking idea machine is hoping the citizens of the Internet will adopt his new 10 Commandments for solving this growing--and growing!--problem. Fast Company spoke with Anderson (not by email) to learn more. The man who pioneered "ideas worth sharing," TED's Chris Anderson , is on a crusade to quash the frivolous emails that are taking up more and more of our limited time.

While it's a disease that only sickens animals, its effects have been felt for centuries, and its elimination could mean wonders for the developing world. One of the greatest scourges of human history is no more

...now what? What's behind Google's slow-launch approach, plus, what's irking the Twitterati about the search giant's social network (hint: everything). The first formal reviews of Google+, the social-network-news-feed-video-chat hybrid, are in

We're all told to jazz up our passwords with non-alphanumeric characters but by jamming a "+" in Google+, Google has opened a big can of marketing worms. Google+

Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year. Square just received a $100 million cash injection and is now valued at a cool $1 billion

VCs do not support an entrepreneur in a garage with a vision or an entrepreneur who just got his first product out the door. VCs focus on rapidly growing businesses that can be scaled in the very near future--so they can simply cash out. It's been a year since my article " Angel Investors More Powerful Than VCs "