The Organic Incubator shares the same objectives as a traditional incubator, however it operates more as a startup, than as an investment house. The goal is to develop products or solutions that eventually get spun out into businesses. Given that sales are the only means to fund development, products are developed, proven quickly, or ditched. This model forces ALL stakeholders to be extremely nimble and critical of their efforts. All market tests are done live, with real feedback from real customers from the day the product hits the market. That is the only form of due diligence required.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a cataloge of "evolutionary speed limits." The model provides quantitative predictions for the speed of evolution on various "fitness landscapes," the dynamic and varied conditions under which bacteria, viruses and even humans adapt.

DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. This will require mechanisms for amateurs to increase their knowledge and skills, access to a community of experts, the development of a code of ethics, responsible oversight, and leadership on issues that are unique to doing biology outside of traditional professional settings.

If you’re a CFO approving purchase decisions in your company, take it from me: Geeks and CEO’s alike love buying new stuff. I assure you there isn’t a web cluster or database cluster on this planet that you can’t squeeze a little more capacity out of without breaking things. So before you take the [technical and managerial bullcrap from your geeks and CEO] at face value, sit down with your team and have them explain all the data to you and go through all your resources with a fine tooth comb. Then, if you absolutely have to, spend some money.

And if you don’t have a CFO, nominate someone immediately!! It doesn’t matter how small you are, someone had better be the keeper of the cash-flow plan or you’re going to run out of money and wonder why.

LKH is an effective implementation of the Lin-Kernighan heuristic for solving the traveling salesman problem.

Computational experiments have shown that LKH is highly effective. Even though the algorithm is approximate, optimal solutions are produced with an impressively high frequency. LKH has produced optimal solutions for all solved problems we have been able to obtain; including a 85,900-city instance (at the time of writing, the largest nontrivial instance solved to optimality). Furthermore, the algorithm has improved the best known solutions for a series of large-scale instances with unknown optima, among these a 1,904,711-city instance

A continuously variable transmission could lead to cheaper wind power–if it is rugged enough.

Policymakers are turning their minds to the tricky subject of promoting entrepreneurship

The best programs don’t have sponsors who are even capable of further funding the company. Y Combinator simply doesn’t do follow ons, so there is no way they can positively or negatively signal by their follow on actions.

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations that do not experience breakthrough inventions. This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend heavily on immigrant inventors. The results qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007).

Compare Everywhere is an Android application that allows shoppers to find the current price of a product across dozens of stores in an instant. Using the HTC G1 or Magic’s built-in camera, product barcodes are effortlessly scanned providing the user with product prices, reviews, and with android’s built-in GPS support it’ll even tell you the location and directions of all the nearest stockists.