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Helpful ‘Hero’: Women’s Center of Jacksonville welcomes new, comforting four-legged employee
Read full article: Helpful ‘Hero’: Women’s Center of Jacksonville welcomes new, comforting four-legged employeeHero, a 6-year-old yellow lab and trained therapy dog, was adopted by the Women's Center of Jacksonville in April from K9s For Warriors.
True ‘Hero’: Military working dog retires from Naval Station Mayport
Read full article: True ‘Hero’: Military working dog retires from Naval Station MayportAt a special ceremony Wednesday, fellow service members saluted “Hero,” a military working dog who was retiring from Naval Station Mayport after 47 "dog years" of service.
NASA's Apollo program kicked off Silicon Valley's tech revolution
Read full article: NASA's Apollo program kicked off Silicon Valley's tech revolutionCNN Video(CNN) - Silicon Valley, its visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and the entire tech revolution may not have happened without the Cold War space race. The Apollo program was the birthplace of the modern tech ecosystem, says Basil Hero, a former investigative reporter and media executive who authored the new book "The Mission of a Lifetime." "Without [Apollo], I don't think the computer revolution would have happened as quickly and on the same trajectory," Hero told CNN Business. Apollo, the startupNASA's Apollo program was the first-ever "moonshot." Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs built off computing technology that NASA incubated during the Apollo era, Hero said.