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  • Nokia has bought out electronics giant Siemens in a joint venture to make high-speed wireless network technology.

  • An array of gadgets will track your fitness program, tell you in great detail how many calories you're burning, and what your heart rate is. They can even give you a kick when you are falling short of your goals.

  • For the most part, strong encryption technology of our e-mails, texts, and phone calls has been the domain of the powerful and the paranoid. But that's starting to change.

  • Google Reader is dead. Millions once used it to keep track of websites and blogs all in one place — now they are up for grabs.

  • Netflix introduces a new virtual assistant to help you pick what to watch next. It's just the latest effort to help you pick your next movie.

  • Tawny Crazy Ants love to swarm inside electronic devices and can short them. That's causing quite a headache in southern states.

  • Amazon is rolling out a new online platform for fan fiction, that is, original stories that use famous characters from TV and movies.

  • The online security firm ESET runs a camp for young hackers that encourages them to use their skills for good, not evil.

  • PayPal wants to get into space payments. Space tourism is possibly a thing of the near future — the company Virgin has scheduled its first consumer space flight for the end of this year.

  • Firefox moved forward with a plan last week to automatically block third party cookies. As you might guess, advertisers, who rely on those little crumbs of code, aren't happy.