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A Lego replica of the famous X-Men mansion has received the 10,000 fan votes required to get it to the next stage on the way to reality. Here's hoping our favorite mutants will get their school in Lego form. ...

Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center is hosting an event in San Francisco. CNET will be there to bring you live news, photos, and commentary. ...

An X-Men superfan builds magnetic boots out of old microwave parts and becomes Magneto (sort of). ...

A small satellite startup called Skybox Imaging is reportedly in Google's sights for an acquisition offer of around $1 billion. ...

New IT director arrives at this company, and within a few months IT staffers are leaving in droves -- which leads to an, um, unusual job interview. ...

Auction site adds more fail cars to fail train. eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) is coming under mounting criticism for its reaction to its loss of users' passwords and other private info. Or, rather, its lack of reaction. Not only that, but the password advice it's giving users seems slightly stupid. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers spot the choo-choo to Failtown. ...

Apple has huge plans for WWDC 2014, which begins with a mammoth two-hour keynote speech on June 2. What's going on? ...

Microsoft has taken some heat for what some people claim has been too cozy a past relationship with the NSA. But Microsoft has recently gotten privacy religion, standing up to the FBI and refusing to turn over data to the FBI about one of the company's enterprise customers. ...

A printer that connects to the Web may pose as great a risk to enterprise security as an OS vulnerability, but yet companies worry about the latter and too often ignore the former, said a CTO during a discussion at MIT. ...

An HP bug bounty program has published information about a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 because Microsoft did not meet its patch-or-we-go-public deadline. ...

The U.S. military is just weeks away from getting a prototype for an Iron Man-like suit that would make soldiers stronger, give them real-time battlefield information, monitor their vital signs and even stop their bleeding. ...

T-Mobile USA has rolled out voice over LTE in its home base of Seattle, offering high-definition voice and promising benefits to subscribers from a technology that in time could save carriers a lot of money. ...

The ultimate eavesdropping solution for people who want to see what their employees, kids or spouse are doing on their Android (or jailbroken iPhone) smartphone. ...

Wearable devices are hot right now, but will slow down for a time before rebounding again, market research firm NPD is forecasting. ...

Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs. ...

Microsoft said Thursday it plans eventually to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that it's known about for seven months, but it didn't say when. ...

Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe...

Unilever has developed a programme named The Unilever Foundry to provide innovative startups with a route into the organisation...

Milton Keynes council teams up with BT and base station builder Neul to build a city-wide internet of things network...

Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco...