On March 14 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) discovered another dust devil really huge. Astronomers determined its height examining the photographs transmitted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and established that it’s about 20 km (about 12 miles) high with a column diameter of about 70 meters (about 75 yards). That’s the size of a large tornado on Earth!
Yesterday, Google announced Project Glass, which has the purpose of creating glasses that can provide an augmented reality. These glasses, at least in the prototype shown by Google, are composed of a frame similar to the one of ordinary glasses with a display near the right eye. An operating system sends real-time various information to the users depending on what they’re doing.
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902 in Louisville, Kentucky. In his life unfortunately short, Stanley G. Weinbaum was able to write only a handful of stories but with his extraordinary imagination and the ability to build a consistent way really alien worlds greatly influenced the field of science fiction. At the time, in fact many stories really naive and full of stereotypes were published while the ones written by Weinbaum were of far higher quality.
IBM and ASTRON (ASTRonomisch Onderzoek in Nederland, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) announced an agreement for a collaboration that will lead to the construction of a new supercomputer for the collection of data from the SKA (Square Kilometre Array), the consortium that aims to build a radio telescope consisting of the largest array of the world. ASTRON allocated an initial sum of 32.9 million Euros for a five years collaboration.
