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There are hundreds of animals on the IUCN Red List --the definitive list of animals that are threatened with extinction.

Toys "R" Us will soon be selling iPads alongside G.I. Joes, PlayStation games, and Legos

You know those solar backpacks they sell?

" Google hasn't gotten social right yet," said Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products, in a recent interview . Well, company employees better get social right soon--if they want to earn a good chunk of their bonuses, says a new report.

Planes, trains, automobiles--and ferries.

Is our consumer culture, focused on the constant purchasing of disposable goods, destroying our civilization? Quite possibly! But it's also, apparently, making us live longer and healthier lives. Researchers in Taiwan recently completed a study that shows that elderly men and women who shopped once a week or more were 27% less likely to die than those who shopped less frequently.

Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for ways to sell what they have more effectively. SalesSpider CEO Russell Rothstein knows this, and created a small business social network for early stage and growth companies. SalesSpider is the largest networks of its kind, with over 750,000 members, and a growth rate of 20 to 30,000 users a month

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Photograph by Benjamin Lowy Opportunity: After fleeing marriage to a Taliban husband, Samiya Amiri found work--and the beginning of a new life--as a renewable-power engineer.

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Google Secretly Making Chrome for Tablets Stealth elements in Chrome's source code reveal new features that are unmistakably designed for a tablet. Google acknowledged, "We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time." Cocoon, A Worry-Free Browser Cocoon aims for private, malware-free browsing by routing all Internet activity through a separate server that scrubs viruses and tracking software before such data reaches the user

The new/ old CEO is turning the Googleplex topsy-turvy rather quickly.

A few key strategies to make the most of brand monitoring can help your reputation in a big way.

Today, Microsoft launched Bing for the iPad, an app that integrates the company's search experience with Apple's tablet. In essence, it's no different than Google's iPad app: You'll find all the features you'd expect from Bing (search, maps, etc.) optimized for the device's touch-screen interface.

Shai Magzimof had a great idea for an Android app--but he had to serve time in the Israeli Army. A few months ago, Shai Magzimof found himself in the pitch meeting of his life.

A science team has, for the first time, engaged a brain-reading electrode setup to allow a computer's cursor instructions to come from a living, thinking human brain.