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Inside evolving satellite technology

Take a look inside Russian NASA, ESA spacecraft construction

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2. Google details its ambitious Project Ara modular smartphone

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Heartbleed bug is irritating McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky Lab

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It's a fax

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Field Museum goes Gigabit

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Interesting admission from the Central Intelligence Agency as it confirmed the long-held suspicion that it indeed had a role in publishing the first Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago after the book had been banned in the Soviet Union in 1958. READ MORE

Red-hot IT jobs

Dice.com released its Tech Trends Q1 report for 2014 and while the numbers are excellent across IT as a whole, they're especially lucrative for tech consultants. READ MORE

Microsoft concedes Chromebooks are work-worthy

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