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HANGZHOU, China -- In one of this nation's most popular tourist cities, famed for the beauty of its surrounding mountains, willow trees, lotus blossoms and ancient stone-arch bridges, a new sightseeing attraction is making its debut: the local landfill. With its so-called "trash tour," the landfill has attracted more than 10,000 visitors since it launched last year. There, tourists visit its trash-to-gas power plant, play environmental video games and hike in an eco-park the size of 10 football fields

Back in November I took the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac program, a boot camp for aspiring entrepreneurs. I spent seven days over four weeks immersed in researching, developing, and vetting my business idea with 26 other would-be entrepreneurs from across New York City. It was intense and an experience I can’t recommend enough.

David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr, an easy to use blogging platform, shares his favorite tech tools.

As a kid, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, taught himself to code and dropped out of high school. Now 24 years old, Karp runs his company his wayand refuses to keep a schedule. In 2007, when others his age were studying for midterms and living on dorm food, David Karp was busy launching Tumblr, an easy-to-use blogging platform that now hosts 17.5 million blogs and receives about 1.5 billion page views per week.

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Photograph by David Heerde To build this school in Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré used local materials designed to withstand weather conditions ranging from blazing sun to torrential showers. His schools now serve 500 children

By Nicola Nosengo of Nature magazine Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in the earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009. The seven were on a committee that had been tasked with assessing the risk associated with recent increases in seismic activity in the area. [More]

The smartphone boom helps clever companies turn ephemeral real-world resources into marketable goods. #article-bucket a .article-view-enlarged { display:none; } CHAD MEYER and Omid Saadati met at a Bay Area coffee shop about a year ago, and the two young entrepreneurs immediately began talking about what everyone in San Francisco talks about when they first meet: how long it had taken to find parking. "We'd both been going around and around the block, and we'd seen all these prime parking spaces that we couldn't use," Meyer says

If your city isn't going to install bike lanes, make one yourself.

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A map of all the country's charging stations shows the easiest places to own an EV, and the places where no one seems to care. For electric cars to bloom, there needs to be a place to plug them in.

You wouldn't want to miss Michael Arrington publicly needling his AOL bosses Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington. "Do you see acquiring more content companies like TechCrunch and HuffPo?" Michael Arrington pointedly asked his boss-and-AOL chief Tim Armstrong earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the annual tech conference and start-up competition put on in New York by the site Arrington founded and co-edits. There was an uncomfortable silence

KANSAS CITY, May 22 (Reuters) - Tornadoes tore throughparts of the U.S.

One of the largest educational publishers in the world is offering cash prizes to the winners of a crowdsourced learning product innovation competition.