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Toyota is working on a social networking service--with Microsoft's help--so that drivers can interact with their cars. Imagine if KITT had a Twitter account. Toyota's working on a new feature called "Toyota Friend," part of a private social network that connects you--with Microsoft 's help--to your car.

A very hot solution to that pesky solar energy problem known as sunset. Solar power: works great when the sun is out. It works less great when the sun isn't out, which happens every night, as you may have noticed

I work so hard and I still can’t make ends meet.

Sure, there are a plethora of baby-naming apps on the iPhone.

How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects. Two decades ago, the A

The search for alien civilizations is returning to its roots. In the latest chapter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, researchers are using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to check out some of the distant worlds being discovered in droves by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

Mississippi River flooding is at its worst in decades. With thousands evacuated and the levees breaking, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun an audacious Facebook initiative to keep the public informed.

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Will applying the lessons learned making computer chips to solar panels result in really cheap solar power? Solar startups often have impressively big ideas about how they're going to scale up the next revolutionary technology, but few get the job done

Even in the information age, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics still gathers much of its data the old-fashioned way. Workers make phone calls to find out what dentists charge for pulling teeth, and they visit stores to write down the prices of CDs and Russet potatoes.

The push for efficiency defines many organizations, and Greenleaf Book Group is no exception. I push my staff to eliminate silly wastes of time and money as often as I can. We've adopted best practices from many organizations and have become a training ground for operational efficacy.

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The longtime VP tells us how a simple call for a pizza delivery influences the company's thinking on local products and searching. Yesterday Google introduced a new feature for its Google Places pages: Business Photos , which essentially brings Street View into the interiors of businesses.

High note: The Voice Project’s long chain of covers began with a women’s choir in Uganda’s Gulu region. | Photograph courtesy of The Voice Project. A network of rock stars fuels the Voice Project and benefits the women of Uganda.