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The Motorola Xoom has been out for about two months now and has sold an estimated 100,000 units. Whether this is considered a success or not is a matter of debate. For example, Business Insider is declaring it a flop , while BetaNews is declaring it a good thing .

Come 2013, the burliest rocket in the world may belong not to NASA, Boeing or any of the other traditional heavy-hitters in the aerospace field. It will belong to a relative newcomer, if start-up spaceflight firm SpaceX has its way

In a world in which knowledge is power, what you don't know can hurt you.

Rashmi Sinha seemed destined for a career in academia. Born and raised in India, she earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Brown University and did her postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley

Today, BMW announced the planned creation of a tech incubator in New York City to seed innovations in mobile and location-based services. The announcement follows the automaker's establishment in February of a venture capital company, BMW i Ventures, with an investment fund of as much as $100 million, and serves as yet another indication that BMW is turning its eye toward the mobile startup scene

The "creative brain" behind Google Creative Lab, Ji Lee , announced today he will head to Facebook to become the social network's newest Creative Director. The unexpected announcement came this morning at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Lee was a featured speaker for Creative Mornings, a "monthly breakfast lecture series of creative types" based in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Facebook's latest talent-grab from Google underscores a series of high-profile acquisitions from its biggest tech competitor.

(PhysOrg.com) -- For some years now, NASA has been using what are called thermoelectric materials to power its space probes. The probes travel such great distances from our sun that solar panels are no longer an efficient source of power

With oddly simultaneous timing, a number of Apple's competitors have made bold statements alleging the iPad is poor in certain ways, not suited for particular uses, or even doomed to fail. You could be forgiven for thinking they're running interference because of fear. We marshall the evidence here.

In April 2010, amid mounting criticism that his space plan lacked direction, President Barack Obama gave a speech in Florida to lay out a few ambitious goals he had in mind for NASA. The details of how those targets would be met remain somewhat sketchy even today, but the goals themselves were clear--sometime around 2025, the U.S. would perform an unprecedented feat.

Tiny startups in developing countries have a savior in microfinancing organizations like Kiva , but what about the small- to medium-sized businesses that don't qualify for microloans? These businesses, commonly called "the missing middle," have between 10 and 300 employees and usually seek between $20,000 and $2 million. They are the backbone of economic growth in developing nations, but are tragically undersupported

With the launch of the Nintendo 3DS this Sunday, the company continues its history of revolutionizing how games play, and how we play with them. While I have issues with Nintendo 3DS as a gadget , there is no denying that it is a remarkable gaming machine. With the 3-D capabilities come interesting media opportunities--it allows you to take 3-D photos, a 3-D version of OK Go's "White Knuckles" music video comes with the handheld, and Netflix will stream in 3-D this summer

New smartphone technologies target parents worried about reckless teen drivers. The market's so hot, apparently, that even average GPS companies are marketing in this space

When Podio's Chairman Thomas Madsen-Mygdal told me at South By SouthWest last week they were creating their own application store for their flexible software tool, I wasn't surprised.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. From raw factory space to clean, bright office

Could the expansion of Foursquare's API allow it to become a universal look-up list for venue and location data for all location based services online?