To mark the occasion, Microsoft is launching two significant upgrades.

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Ponting, by contrast, was immediately into his stride, getting off the mark with a lofted straight drive to the boundary and soon launching Vettori back over his head into the stands.

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At 9:23am this morning (Pacific), Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg commemorated the social network reaching 500 million users by launching Facebook Stories, a sub-section of the site where users could share their Facebook-related tales.

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Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to press in London today that Facebook will indeed be launching location-based features in the near future.

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This is a guest post by Mark Rogers, the founder and chief executive of BoardProspects, an online professional community launching in August 2012 dedicated to building better boards for private, public, and nonprofit organizations.

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Hackers can cover their tracks by launching their attacks indirectly by hijacking other people's computer systems, says the BBC's technology correspondent Mark Gregory.

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"We're trying to serve as a launching pad to get inventions into the hands of those who can develop them, " says Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton, who spent 23 years in the chemistry department at MIT and has a few patents in his name.

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Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for publishing.

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