May 2013

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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced that the company has reached an agreement to purchase the multimedia social microblogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion which will be paid all in cash. One of the first questions was about the future of Flickr, the pictures and videos hosting service acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Well, a few hours later Marissa Mayer announced that the site has been improved and now every user will have a Terabyte of free space.

Moving Mars by Greg Bear (Italian edition)

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The novel “Moving Mars” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1993. It won the Nebula Award as the best novel of the year.

Casseia Majumdar is a young Martian who in 2171, Mars year 53, gets involved in the student revolt when the government attempts to subvert the semi-anarchist system that traditionally runs the colony on the red planet. Because of the fall of the government, Casseia and the other students get away with it even though some radical elements used explosives in an attack but there are consequences for her and Charles Franklin, a brilliant young physicist with a brilliant future.

The Mars Rover Opportunity took a picture of its track in the day it set its record (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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On May 15, 2013, which corresponds to Sol – as in Martian day – 3,309 of its mission, the Mars Rover Opportunity has set the record for the driving distance covered by a NASA vehicle on another world. The previous record belonged to the Lunar Roving Vehicle driven by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 with 35.744 km ((22.210 statute miles).

Doctor Who - The War Games

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“The War Games” is the last adventure of the sixth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired between april and june 1969 featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. It’s a ten parts adventure written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks and directed by David Maloney.