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The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Tuesday were Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, Renewable Energy Group Inc, Synacor Inc, Arena Pharmaceuticals and Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Horizon Pharma Inc, KIT digital Inc, Myriad Genetics Inc, TICC Capital Corp and Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif., said Tuesday he would resign immediately, a move he told a local newspaper was due to family concerns.

Shares of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, set a record high of $672.85 on Tuesday, not quite eight years to the day of its initial public offering in which co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin pledged to “make money without doing evil.”

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have been engaged since 2007, so why have they been so hesitant to walk down the aisle? It's a little thing called equality for all -- that's all. The spunky blonde and her funnyman refuse to marry until California legalizes same-sex marriages.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, have recovered lost ground and are trading not much below their record high of $644 set on April 10. Despite a setback when third-quarter earnings fell shy of estimates last month, they could set another record again this week.

Four days after NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars, the one-ton robot sent another postcard back to Earth on Thursday, this one a 360-degree doozy.

The rest of the world has sworn off Kristen Stewart, but Robert Pattinson is contemplating getting back with his girlfriend of three years, according to RadarOnline.com.

The Perseid Meteor Shower could not have peaked at a better time in 2012, falling as it does right in the middle of the weekend. But where is the best spot to view the shooting stars and when?

Friday marks 13 weeks since the first public trading in shares of Facebook at $42. Now it's near $21.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, said it has devised a voice-enabled app for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhones that will challenge the Siri personal assistant. The move comes two months after Google acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings, one of the top makers of smartphones.

Companies are using tablets more and more, and the launch of Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface tablet will build on the trend. Is everything as rosy as it seems?

Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as online library for digital information has to date promoted nearly a petabyte data of content via the controversial file-sharing site, BitTorrent.

The Martian crater where Curiosity rover landed Sunday looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California, said scientists on Aug. 8.

Technology may have a good second half of 2012 after all, despite all the fears of economic collapse, lower demand for PCs and other worries. After Computer Sciences reported better-than-expected results on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard said third-quarter results would be stronger, too.

Another employee of Infosys, India's leading IT player, has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging harassment for his role in bringing to light the visa and fraud issue.

The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Wednesday were Complete Genomics Inc, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc, Silicon Graphics International Corp, Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Photronics Inc.The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Boingo Wireless Inc, SunPower Corporation, Monster Beverage Corporation, Career Education Corporation and Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.

The surviving members of The Monkees announced dates Wednesday for their 2012 Reunion Tour, six months after the death of lead singer Davy Jones. Find out here if the band is playing in a city near you.

Prescription drugs kill between about 100,000 people in the world each year, but marijuana, medical or not, has caused absolutely zero deaths. Weed, pot, ganja, or whatever you want to call it, cannabis has actually been a favorable treatment in the treatment of about 200 different medical conditions. Here are 10 ways marijuana can improve your health.

Three days into its mission, the Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is continuing to dazzle scientists and specialists with its first data reports from the red plant. Still more technology companies have acknowledged their participation in the NASA project

A 4.1 earthquake hit near Yorba Linda, Calif., at 9:33 a.m. The quake is the latest in a series of earthquakes to hit the Southern California area.

Although reported on Monday that Robert Pattinson would be making his first TV appearance post Kristen Stewart breakup on "Good Morning America" Wednesday, August 15, the "Twilight" hunk will actually appear on John Stewart's "Daily Show" two days earlier.