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One human's genome represents a large chunk of data. Put a lot of genomes together and it starts to become unmanageable

Sony Ericsson hit by earthquake woes, SpaceX's big rocket future gets going. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.

A new app lets you track all your meals, gamifying eating healthy and making what you eat a social activity. Is this the new Weight Watchers

Facebook Likes and comments are great, but they won't save your brand. Researcher Dan Zarella (an expert in social media analysis ) set out to prove they would at least help. He found the opposite results.

Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.

Theyre among the most intriguing young business owners in Americaand theyve barely gotten started. Think of Inc.'s 30 Under 30 as a glimpse into the next generation of business owners, as well as a reflection of the trends that have taken shape over the past few years. Last year, for example, we were struck by how many young women were starting companies.

Google in legal hot water, Big names (Apple! Microsoft! Sony!) buy big Nortel patents, Facebook battles another would-be owner, RIM's highly public executive brawl. This, and other bits of news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Broke Wiretap Laws?

Do you really need--or want--"contextual information about people you're interacting with" via email? As part of Google 's new social spree that just gave field testers Google+ , Google's also added a new social feature to Gmail--the People Tab . It's a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that displays "contextual information about people you're interacting with in Gmail" because "the people you communicate with" are as important as "what you're communicating about." To some, it will amount to another doodad on the already cluttered dashboard.

Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attracted a "dream team" staff. What surprised her was that the most challenging aspect of the job wasn't connecting with the kids, so much as it was keeping track of their progress and behavior on a day-to-day basis.

Are your customers likely to recommend your business to their friends? The answer can make or break your business. Most start-ups know whether their customers are satisfied

Social media influence index, Klout, allows brands to slip customized Facebook pages and offers to its most influential followers. Facebook is throwing up a red velvet rope around a new VIP page.

Until now, the antics of LulzSec have seemed more or less harmless (depending on where you draw the line on the criminality of White Hat hacking), but with the release of 62,000 usernames and passwords to unlisted sites, LulzSec has got personal. LulzSec claims to have hit the CIA this week , and may also have again penetrated web security at the Senate's website, and an earlier LulzSec leak of over 20,000 usernames and passwords was confined to pornographic websites--headline-earning efforts indeed. But today's 62,000-plus list actually doesn't mention which site the passwords and login credentials are connected to

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?

"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.

Did you know that on this day in history Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, Saab made its first auto, and the first Apple II computer shipped? That was then, this is what's happening today: This is part of a 1977 advert for the Apple II. Yup, he's working the numbers over a cuppa joe while she's chopping food for dinner.