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Next stop, Mars: NASA’s Maven spacecraft blasts off for 10-month journey

Maven will investigate the mystery of what happened to Mars' water, atmosphere

Google, Facebook join white-spaces advocacy group

The group spearheaded by Microsoft and others will push for access to unused spectrum

Universities diving into Big Data

UC Berkeley, University of Washington, NYU join forces on $37.8 million project

China continues reign with top supercomputer

The US still has the largest number of entrants on the new Top 500 listing of top supercomputers

Healthcare Finally Warming to Cloud Technology

PrimeSense buy would open ‘world of apps and services’ for Apple

Gartner analyst speculates on reports, says Apple's interest in 3-D gesture and scanning technology would be long-term investment meant to keep pace with rivals

Google to pay $17 million to states in Apple cookies case

State attorneys general accused the company of circumventing cookie-blocking defaults in the Safari browser

Skype, Microsoft cleared in Luxembourg NSA investigation

The Safe Harbor agreement was not breached, the Luxembourg DPA said

Google to warn users of 13,000 search terms associated with child pornography

But online rights groups say blocking results for searches for child abuse terms is not very effective

Nvidia boosts supercomputing speed with Tesla K40 graphics chip

Nvidia's latest Tesla K40 GPU is on an average 20 percent faster than its predecessor