September 2013

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Kim Dotcom, the controversial man at the center of an international intrigue that has more the flavor of espionage than that of copyright infringement, announced that he resigned as director of Mega, the encrypted and distributed file hosting service he opened in January 2013. His purpose is to follow the legal case of the old Megaupload and Megavideo and prepare for the opening of the new music service for now called Megabox but also to follow a new career in politics in New Zealand.

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen

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“The Tomb of the Cybermen” is the first adventure of the fifth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1967 featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria. It’s a four parts adventure written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis and directed by Morris Barry.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop

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A few hours ago it was announced that Microsoft will acquire the Nokia Devices & Services division, which is the one that manages the mobile business, for 3.79 billion Euros. The Redmond company will also pay 1.65 billion Euros for the license to use a number of Nokia patents for a total of 5.44 billion Euros (about $7.2 billion or £4.6 billion) which will be paid in cash.

Frederik Pohl in 2008

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The grand master of science fiction Frederik Pohl died yesterday. During his very long career he wrote a lot of novels and short fiction winning all the awards in the field of science fiction. He collaborated with other colleagues such as Jack Williamson and Cyril M. Kornbluth (“The Space Merchants”), also published famous novels on his own such as the Heechee series.

/ Slant by Greg Bear (Italian edition)

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The novel “/ Slant” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 1997. It’s the sequel to “Queen of angels”.

Public defender Mary Choy must investigate the death of two prostitutes involved in illegal nano- transformations and the strange case of a billionaire who seems to have committed suicide. These are some of the cases that suddenly are becoming frequent, an abnormality all the more worrying because those who have some mental problem can undergo very sophisticated therapies. Even the psychotherapist Martin Burke suspect that there’s something going on after discovering several cases in which the therapy went into a kind of regression.