The news was initially given unofficially by the Wall Street Journal, which reported it as a matter of fact, and was later officially confirmed: Apple has acquistto Topsy, to be precise Topsy Labs, Inc., a company that deals with research and analysis in social networks, particularly Twitter, of which is a certified partner. It seems that Apple has paid over $200 million for this acquisition.
The novel “Darwin’s Radio” by Greg Bear has been published for the first time in 1999. It won the Nebula Award for best novel of the year.
A sudden surge in the number of miscarriages forces the U.S. government to create a task force to investigate their causes. Kaye Lang is called to be part of it and realizes that an endovirus could be the cause. The problem becomes more complex when she and a few others think that it’s not a disease but a complex biological mechanism related to evolution.
The Chinese rover Yutu, which means jade rabbit, was just launched on a Long March 3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center starting the Chang’e 3 mission, which in addition to the rover includes a lander. After about half an hour, lander and rover, after successfully separating from the rocket’s third stage, took the path to the Moon.
