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• Meet Diesel, a cute dog and organic robot

  Diesel, a Labrador Retriever, appears to live in a perpetual state of glee and is unbothered by the electronics-packed vest he is wearing.

• NASA successfully tests laser space transmissions

  NASA successfully transmitted a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth using a new laser communications instrument.

• Safari, Chrome push to mask URLs

  Safari on OS X Yosemite will mask most of a URL in its top-of-window address bar, following in the footsteps of Safari on iOS, and beating Google's Chrome, which is experimenting with the same design, to the desktop.

• NASA looks to make science fiction a reality

  NASA is working to make science fiction a reality as it chose 12 advanced technologies to study, including a deep space submarine and the tech to capture a passing asteroid.

• Why haven't robots yet changed the world?

  A well-known roboticist acknowledged Wednesday at an MIT symposium that robotics has yet to change the world.

• DARPA unveils hack-proof drone tech

  In a claim reminiscent of Oracle Corp.'s 'unbreakable' marketing campaign of several years ago, the U.S. military has built what it calls a hack proof drone.

• SAP ships updated mobile app development tools

  SAP AG Thursday announced the general availability of SAP Mobile Platform 3.0, a common software development kit (SDK) for developers to build apps for use by consumers, business partners as well as employees.

• Big data key to bringing hyperlocal weather forecasts to Georgia farmers

  Farmers in southwest Georgia's Flint River Valley could one day get accurate, hyperlocal weather forecasts just for their individual farms up to three days in advance.

• Google pushes I/O registration deadline back to April 15

  If you thought you'd spend part of today signing up to attend this year's Google I/O, think again.

• Building your own rocket or robot? NASA has code for you

  Ever wish you could get your hands on the software that NASA used to launch its Apollo lunar missions or to get robots working on Mars? If so, NASA has something for you.

• Researchers 3D print micro trusses as strong as steel, lighter than water

  Using 3D laser lithography, a team of German scientists have created micro-truss and -shell structures from ceramic polymer composites that exceed the strength-to-weight ratio of all engineering materials, with a density below 1,000 kg/m.

• Tip of the Hat: Java 8: A step ahead, or just keeping pace?

  Observers are split on whether the latest Java version gives the software a new edge or simply lets it keep up with other top programming languages.

• Google to release wearables SDK in few weeks

  Google is getting ready to release a software development kit that will help developers build apps for wearable computers on the Android platform.

• U.S. firm's 2,600 engineers in Ukraine stay busy amid turbulence

  In 1993, a few years after immigrating to the U.S., Arkadiy Dobkin, an electrical engineer trained in Minsk, Belarus, started a company that aimed to tap the IT engineering talent developed in the former Soviet Union.

• Tip of the Hat: Google's Project Ara unmasked

  Since disclosing last fall that an internal research team is developing an open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones, Google has offered few details of the effort, dubbed Project Ara.