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  • The final space shuttle mission is underway. But when Atlantis returns on July 20th, it will be to a very uncertain future for the space program.

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  • The British newspaper the News of the World will cease publication after 168 years. This comes in the wake of accusations that employees of the paper were hacking voicemail accounts.

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  • Video phone calls are about to get a whole lot easier, if you're on Facebook. The social media giant unveiled a new way to make free video calls through your Facebook page.

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  • Microsoft's Bing search engine will be used to return English language results for the Chinese search engine Baidu. That arrangement means going along with the Chinese government's censorship policies.

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  • If you're not at least a little bit worried about computer security lately, then you probably just haven't been paying attention. Our Help Desk is here to answer some of your burning security questions.

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  • We generally talk about the technology of today on this program. Sometimes the technology of tomorrow. But on this Independence Day, we're going to talk about the technology of 235 years ago. America in 1776.

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  • Botnets are armies of infected computers, made to carry out the nefarious wills of their criminal commanders, unbeknownst to the computer owners. The TDL botnet contains 4.5 million computers and appears to be the work of evil geniuses.

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  • We've been hearing about Google's impending leap into social networking since, oh, about the Eisenhower administration. Now Google+ is finally here. How does it compare and contrast with Facebook?

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  • It wasn't long ago that Myspace (also known as My_____, formerly called MySpace) was the king of social networking online. Today, the company is expected to lay off 150 members of the 400 employees it has remaining. What happened?

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  • If you have a website, you've probably been getting pretty worried about security lately. The Department of Homeland Security wants to help you out.

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