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On Saturday night between 8:30 and 9:30, you may notice that world seems darker.

Groupon can deliver a stampede of new customers to your business. But then what?

"Steve Jobs loves talking about trucks," says Bill Nguyen, serial entrepreneur and founder of online music service Lala . "What he says is that in the industrial age, trucks were awesome because we just had to move stuff around. All you ever needed was a truck.

Qatari scientists claim to have cracked the problem of shade for crowded stadiums during the 2022 World Cup: Artificial clouds.

It's highly unlikely that you're going to see any new nuclear power plants built any time in the future, given the now worsening situation at Fukushima. But knee-jerk reactions to the accident are not what's really to blame for the inevitable decline in nuclear production

With the launch of the Nintendo 3DS this Sunday, the company continues its history of revolutionizing how games play, and how we play with them. While I have issues with Nintendo 3DS as a gadget , there is no denying that it is a remarkable gaming machine. With the 3-D capabilities come interesting media opportunities--it allows you to take 3-D photos, a 3-D version of OK Go's "White Knuckles" music video comes with the handheld, and Netflix will stream in 3-D this summer

Recently, I was interviewed about entrepreneurship by Business Insider.

IBM's Watson , a super-computer best known as a Jeopardy-winning robot, might not exist if not for Dr. David Ferrucci

01 / PepsiCo > > For its ambitious nutrition R&D. Does better nutrition require curbing our appetites for Cheetos and Fritos and Mountain Dew (oh, my!)? Not if PepsiCo can help it.

A new robotic flying drone , styled like a seagull, has arrived on the scene. It doesn't squawk, poop or steal french fries from your hand, but it's an example of incredible bio-mimicking design that could be the future of airborne robots.

In a world that is obsessed with preventing errors and perfection, perhaps it's ironic that despite 11 straight blockbuster movies, Pixar cofounder and President Ed Catmull describes Pixar's creative process as "going from suck to nonsuck." That's because Catmull and Pixar's directors think it's better to fix problems than to prevent errors. "My strategy has always been: be wrong as fast as we can," says Andrew Stanton, Director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, "Which basically means, we're gonna screw up, let's just admit that. Let's not be afraid of that." We can all work this way more often

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, this is a story we've heard before. But now Microsoft has joined a plan to build a smart city jammed with exactly these smart homes in Portugal. Living PlanIT , which calls itself "one of the world's leading smart city and urban development technology providers" has been working on a plan for a smart city in northern Portugal for quite a while--currently a 2013 unveiling looks likely

You may recall that BP nearly obliterated the Louisiana and Florida coasts last year following the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which saw approximately 205 million gallons of oil dumped into the Gulf of Mexico (seen above from space). There's no way to get around the issue in the oil company's first corporate social responsibility report since the disaster--but that hasn't stopped BP from trying.

An ad agency has resorted to an innovative hiring technique: a hashtag battle. Say you're a hiring manager at a leading advertising firm, and you're looking to hire a summer intern