March 2013

Richard Stallman at The University of Pittsburgh in 2010

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Richard Matthew Stallman was born on March 16, 1953 in New York City. He’s a free software activist against copyright restrictions and software patents and the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation.

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The story of the videogame SimCity, the latest version of the successful series with the same name, which was to revive a glorious name in the field of videogames, has instead become synonymous with failure. The big problems suffered by players in the early days that followed the launch of the new Simcity showed that Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts that developed it, made various mistakes.

Some ALMA antennae (Photo ESO/C. Malin)

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Yesterday the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), was officially inaugurated. It’s an astronomical radiointerferometro built in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, composed of 66 antennas of 12 and 7 meters that can observe at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths. The purpose of ALMA is to study the birth of stars and planets, even in the early universe.