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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys A Thousand IBM Patents .

Noha Waibsnaider founder and CEO of Peeled Snacks discusses creating a unique product to find success within a packed snack food market.

It may be responsible for the financial meltdown, but while it was writing bad mortgages, Bank of America was also doing excellent work reducing its footprint. There are lot of problems in the world, and myriad ways to fix them. It's almost impossible to address them all at the same time.

Nereus, a remotely operated vehicle, is set to travel to some of the deepest and coldest parts of the sea to find out exactly how our aquatic environments are changing--and how to fix it. Humans have stepped foot on the moon more times than we've been to the deepest floors of our oceans. As science looks to survey new species, prospect minerals, and monitor how climate change is altering the depths, engineers need to find new ways to get us there, or at least send our mechanical eyes and ears.

Nearly 40 years after Mel Brooks breathed new life into Frankenstein, his son, Max, author of "World War Z," is unearthing that other undead goldmine: zombies. You'd think the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft would have settled into a nice comfortable comedy writing gig. But since his days writing for Saturday Night Live, Max Brooks has instead forged a career in an unlikely niche: zombie expert

[youtube aPgPyq8EonE] NASA is, the Agency urges in a news release , "ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System--an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The messy politics behind the story aren't innovative (the Apollo program was canceled to make way for the Shuttle, and the Shuttle has now been ditched to make way for the SLS, with bitter discussions and budget controversies along for the ride, as ever) but the rocket itself is going to be. Because NASA's next "big stick" binds together 50 years of research and lessons into one 21st century rocket

One of the great perks of working at a media company is being the first to learn about new products, try them out, photograph them and--this is the hard part--send them back to the manufacturer. These goods then appear in the magazine and on the website, with the implied notion that you might want to buy them. You know, in a store

Dont let a natural disaster spell ruin for your business. Learn from the experts how to protect against and recoup financial losses. When Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast in 2005, it left an estimated $75 billion in damages in its wake.

Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams.

Erly is founded by Hulu’s former technical and product leads. Collections is one of three applications the team plans to launch in the coming months

Most of our modern technology is powered by a few very rare elements. Most of those elements aren't found in the United States

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Music's digital revolution is fueled by one giant database.

He is a self-made multimillionaire and serial entrepreneur. His book is currently No.

Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential.