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A pair of apps try to remake the experience of shopping. Are they the game-changers they think they are? Two new apps--one for the iPad, the other for the iPhone--intend to remake the way we shop

It may still sound futuristic, but the era of mind-controlled machines is here. An electrode is implanted in or sits on top of the brain, and records patterns of neurons firing; this pattern is then translated, via an algorithm, into computer language

There's always a hand out-stretched begging for cash for a cause, it seems. And you probably rarely, if ever, give.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

Whole-genome sequencing is helping doctors target care. And as the technology becomes more affordable, new studies are showing just what that looks like. A more promising era of cancer treatment may be near--if not exactly imminent

It would be a disaster economically, upsetting family budgets and making the transporting of goods potentially next to impossible. But according to a new survey by Deloitte, it could take something as extreme as $5-per-gallon of gas to persuade most U.S.

Quantum mechanical methods can now be used to study gravity: At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), a measurement method was developed, which allows to test the fundamental theories of physics.

As applications for the 2010 Inc. 500|5000 arrive, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

You may not be a CEO, a billionaire philanthropist, a tech whiz kid or a saintly fighter for the rights of humanity, but you--yes, you--have a shot at the TED stage in 2012.

1. Nintendo's Wii changed the gaming world, but the firm hasn't, to date, suggested any information at all about its successor--much needed, as the Wii looks very aged. But now multiple sources are suggesting that the Wii's follow-up console is in advanced prototyping stages, and the firm is showing it to game publishers.

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

The company recycles everyday consumer tech to aid activists and imprison dictators. When a crisis map won't cut it, they're the A-Team to call

Remember how the Beastmaster could see through the eyes of his pet eagle? DARPA does.

Call it the comeback car.

Richard Miller has had one of the toughest jobs in higher education. The Olin Foundation tapped him a dozen years ago to create an engineering college on a hilltop in the Boston suburb of Needham.