Google has confirmed the acquisition of DeepMind, a British company that deals with artificial intelligence and is headquartered in London. The price that Google will spend for the last of a series of acquisitions in the last year hasn’t been confirmed but according to various sources is between $400 and $500 million.
The novel “The Space Vampires” by Colin Wilson was published for the first time in 1976.
The starship Hermes is on a mission to explore the asteroids when it runs into a huge spaceship apparently abandoned. Captain Carlsen and his crew start exploring it and discover the bodies of what appear totally like human beings. These bodies are in a state of apparent death and it’s decided to bring back three of them to Earth.
A journalist, the son of an old friend of Captain Carlsen, is allowed to enter the laboratory in which the bodies found in space are kept. While he’s checking one of them, a woman, she wakes up and absorbs his life force. The aliens are vampires and if they aren’t stopped the consequences will be devastating for humanity.
At 5:05 UTC on January 25, 2004, the Mars Rover Opportunity landed on Mars. Therefore, it’s been 10 Earth years since this extraordinary robot started its 3-month mission. Two years ago, when I wrote an article celebrating the eighth anniversary of its landing, Opportunity was already the holder of the record for longevity for missions one the surface of Mars, today it’s also the robot that holds the record for the distance traveled on the surface of another world with 38.7 km (24 miles), more than the 37 km (23 miles) traveled by the Soviet Lunokhod 2 robot on the Moon.
