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Magnitude 7.1 aftershock disrupts efforts at Japan nuclear plant to stave off hydrogen explosions

As northeastern Japan copes with Thursday's magnitude-7.1* aftershock, the largest since the disastrous March 11 magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami , the injection of nitrogen gas into one of the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was interrupted as Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) workers evacuated to a safer site, according to the Japan Broadcasting Corp (JBP) . A tsunami warning had been issued briefly but was later canceled .

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Space rock: Vote for the new NASA wake-up song

Like most of us, NASA astronauts have to wake up and get to work--even when they're in space. So NASA is running a contest to select two new wake-up songs for the STS-134 shuttle crew when it's at the International Space Station.

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Chrome Goes Tablet, Virus-Free Browsing, Gamestop’s Facebook Store, and More…

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Google Secretly Making Chrome for Tablets Stealth elements in Chrome's source code reveal new features that are unmistakably designed for a tablet. Google acknowledged, "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time." Cocoon, A Worry-Free Browser Cocoon aims for private, malware-free browsing by routing all Internet activity through a separate server that scrubs viruses and tracking software before such data reaches the user

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Bing Launches iPad App Featuring Flipboard-like News

Today, Microsoft launched Bing for the iPad, an app that integrates the company's search experience with Apple's tablet. In essence, it's no different than Google's iPad app: You'll find all the features you'd expect from Bing (search, maps, etc.) optimized for the device's touch-screen interface.

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Masters begins with ceremony, style

Retief Goosen leads the Masters at 5 under in the first round, while Tiger Woods is even through five holes. Phil Mickelson tees off later Thursday.

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Why You Have All the Power

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

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Drug-resistant genes found in cholera and dysentery strains in New Delhi water supply

Poor sanitation can foster transmission of all sorts of nasty bacterial bugs. But a new study has found that among common bacteria, antibiotic resistance is brewing in the New Delhi water supply--and spreading in at least 20 strains, including some that cause dysentery and cholera. [More]

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