A new report ranks the world's countries not on their economic indicators, but on their ability to "safeguard the needs of its future generations." The results might surprise you.

We normally judge which countries are "doing best" by looking at economic growth--a realm in which places like China and India thrive, despite their environmental and other problems. A more grounded approach might look at a range of factors, from a country's energy mix to its democracy.

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Even though more than half of Americans own smartphones, a significant gap in broadband access persists in the United States, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The survey says 70 percent of American adults have broadband access in their homes, and a large proportion of those also have smartphones. An additional 10 percent of Americans get Internet access from smartphones alone. 

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While cardiovascular diseases remain the deadliest diseases in the EU, experts say current treatments are limited and more research needs to be done to benefit patients.  Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death globally; more people die annually from that disease than from any other cause, according to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Some of the projects Microsoft interns create are hilarious.

There's one particular project, from intern Halley Profita, that really caught our eye. Profita is earning her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder by creating clothes with computer sensors. Your T-shirt might one day monitor your health condition, if Profita has her way.

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It's Warren Buffett's birthday today! The Oracle of Omaha is now 83 years young.

And he still works.

Even in this age of Bloomberg Terminals and high speed trading, Buffett doesn't even have a computer at his desk.

The conflict between Russia's Ministry of Culture and the well-known animator Harry Bardin showed that Russians are willing to pay for cultural projects out of their own pockets. Music, theatre, documentaries and environmental products are projects that collect the most money on crowdfunding sites.

New trends in technology are making it possible for organisations to engage with their employees on a deeper level, making the employees more likely to stick around and contribute to sustainable business performance. For startups, automated talent management, enabled by new technologies such as cloud computing and mobility, can increase the frequency and depth of employee engagement significantly. Studies from Gallup, Hay Group and Towers Watson have shown that employee engagement has a quantifiable impact on business performance and employee retention.

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WORKING REALLY HARD INEVITABLY MEANS STRESS. BUT IT SHOULDN'T GO UNADDRESSED. INSTEAD, USE THESE SIX HABITS TO HELP MANAGE IT.

While it's obvious that negative life changes lead to stress, psychologists have found the positive changes load up our stress levels as well. According to one well-known scale, experiencing outstanding personal achievement is more stressful than having trouble with your boss or taking on a mortgage.

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TechCrunch Europe was launched in September 2007, the same week Seedcamp – the European tech startup accelerator – also launched. So we’ve been on something of a journey together. That year and for at least the next 2-3 years after it was largely the only game in town in terms of the new wave of accelerators in Europe. It’s since been joined by TechStars London (formerly Springboard), StartupBootCamp and corporate networks like Wayra to name just a few. It seems like Europe is awash with accelerators right now.

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Why do we have universities? What are they for and who are they meant to serve? It seems they are being pulled first in one direction and then in another, serving one master and then a second, with the expectation they will be able to respond to all competing demands and still manage to educate a few students in the process.

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The history at the Four-Way Restaurant is as rich and soulful as the food.

The walls of the South Memphis institution are decorated with photographs of politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders and civil rights icons - including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - who made the famous restaurant at Mississippi Boulevard and Walker Avenue a "home away from home."

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By integrating biological tissues with electronics, researchers may be able to create artificial tissues and organs that can monitor health or enhance senses.

Lab-made organs could do more than just serve as ready options for patients in need: with the right blend of biology and materials science, they might even be able to endow people with superhuman abilities. 

That’s what researchers at Princeton University see as the future of tissue engineering, and they believe 3-D printing is the way there. Michael McAlpine and members of his lab recently reported that a 3-D printer could build a bionic ear capable of detecting frequencies a million times higher than the normal range of hearing.

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Scientists in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry are an underappreciated bunch. They make decent salaries, but nowhere near the big bucks that go to their bosses. Even when an industry scientist discovers a new drug that helps people and makes billions, he or she almost never gets publicly recognized. They live mostly anonymous middle class lives, just trying to pay the mortgage and put the kids through college.

The prospect of leaving behind a life that you know for a lifestyle that you can only see in your mind can seem incredibly far off from where you are now.

I want to tell you that it’s not and only one thing really matters when it comes to creating it.

That’s why in yesterday’s challenge we looked at the perfect day exercise to get a step closer to your ideal lifestyle.

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In my Twitter bio, it says that I have been an entrepreneur for 10 years. I wrote that a long time ago, and now it’s more like 15 years. One of my followers sent me a tweet last week which said something like, “there is no such thing as being an entrepreneur for just 10 years, it’s a mindset that lives on forever.” She is right. If you are a serial entrepreneur, you are addicted to being an entrepreneur. I can wholeheartedly relate to that.

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One of the biggest computer annoyances is when your machine gets slow over time. This can start to happen years after you get a PC, but sometimes it happens in just a few short months.

Since we all use our computers for different tasks and activities, there isn't one single reason that pinpoints why this happens.

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“I create nothing.  I own.” – Gordon Gekko, as played by Michael Douglas in the movie “Wall Street.”

Business acquisitions are announced in the Wall Street Journal almost everyday and are glamourized in movies such as Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.”  But most small business are not public. So most owners only have imagined what an acquisition process entails — or they just have cliched Gordon Gekko quotes to go on.

Successful Acquisitions: A Proven Plan for Strategic Growth by David Braun and published by AMACOM, looks to provide value details. I learned about the book through a Twitter connection, and requested a review copy.

The makings of great leadership have been analyzed for centuries. Marcus Buckingham, in his best-selling book "The One Thing You Need to Know: ...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success," aims to pierce through that complexity with one simple maxim:  

To be a great leader, you must find what’s universal, and capitalize on it. 

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Entrepreneurs are a curious bunch.

They come in all shapes, sizes, genders and backgrounds. They get up at dawn. They're the first ones to the office and the last ones to leave. They use productivity apps, network their tooshes off and leave no stone unturned when it comes to pretty much everything.

At best, they make the rest of us humans wonder if it's worth getting up in the morning. At worst, well, ditto. As superwoman/entrepreneur Ingrid Vanderveldt (Dell's entrepreneur-in-residence, media personality and investor) puts it: "Entrepreneurs are barrier breakers whose optimistic view of the world combined with their creative thinking has the ability to address even the toughest of challenges, including the government's approach to innovation."

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The idea that insights from the healthcare systems of low-income countries might be transferable from low to high-income countries is becoming increasingly common in global health and innovation publications. One journal wants to take this idea further to develop an international forum for high-quality research, where academics, practitioners, leaders, and policy-makers can come together to learn, share and critique emerging results on the subject.

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