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Leaving water out in a clear bottle in the sun is a free and easy way to kill pathogens. Now it's time to let the people who bad water is killing know that the solution is at their fingertips. Researchers in developing countries have discovered a free

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The July 4th weekend is just behind us and I spent a good part of last week thinking about summer and how my expectation for work-free vacations might or might not be about to disappear with the launch of FamiliesGo!. Back when I had a staff job at a major business magazine I had an editor who asked me to miss an evening flight that would start my annual vacation to do an eleventh-hour revise on a story. Now, he'd known about my trip for well over a month and I'd filed this story several weeks earlier

"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra," says the author of "Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative." "It’s a strategic issue." Sir Ken Robinson is among the world’s elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative , a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything , Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury.

Bar and nightlife consultant Jon Taffer talks about helping businesses be profitable and hosting a new reality show on Spike TV. In-your-face business consultant Jon Taffer has spent 20 years turning around struggling food, beverage, and nightlife companies

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Learning to take responsibility for your mistakes Lately, several CEOs of troubled businesses have come to me for help, and they've reminded me of an important lesson: You've got to take responsibility for the messes you get your company into. Problems will keep resurfacing until you recognize how your actions helped create them in the first place. That may seem obvious, but most people have a hard time seeing the role they played.

Creativity can come out of nowhere. The trick is to sense itand ride it to the end.

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

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.

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.

Yes, Hollywood Stars can live up (or down) to their stereotypes. But they can also be invaluable in promoting a good cause.

Former Google exec Adam Bosworth is helping companies save money on health care by gamifying exercise and nutrition as coworkers compete for cash prizes. "We’re trying to change health habits in a very fundamental way," he tells us.

The Indian government has put Chinese mobile giant Huawei in charge of inspecting imported smartphone equipment for secret spyware. But who's spying on whom? The Indian government is teaming up with Chinese tech giant Huawei to search imported smartphones and communications devices for signs of malware and spyware.