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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Like many U.S. employers, Tish and Snooky Bellomo are asking their workers to take on additional duties, rather than hiring new employees, at their New York cosmetic and hair accessory company.

Earlier this year the two got rid of a consultant and, rather than rehiring, turned to their 13 employees at Manic Panic, which has sold punk rock inspired fashions and hair dyes since 1977, and asked them to pick up the slack.

Add infrastructure improvement to the list of things social networking is trying to tackle: GPS and mapping companies now use community feedback to improve everything from road information to traffic alerts and speed-trap warnings.

Tele Atlas, which provides maps to its corporate parent TomTom as well as to other navigation companies, on Wednesday rolled out its first geographic database containing information based on map users' feedback.

Most futuristic, dystopian science fiction movies have their share of problems. Common themes often include, but aren't limited to, tyrannical robot armies, apocalyptic natural disasters and oppressive, dictatorial governments. Science fiction doesn't always provide simple, escapist entertainment with no connection to our world -- some of the best and most prescient look at the issues of the present and craft an imaginary future.