The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) approved the proposed amendment to net neutrality regulation. The vote was 3 commissioners in favor to 2 against it. The result has immediately caused more controversy adding to what’s been happening in the last few months due to the risk of having a two-speed Internet.
A few hours ago the launch of the Express-AM4R (or Ekspress-AM4R) satellite, the most sophisticated Russian telecommunications satellite, has failed due to a malfunction of the third stage of a Proton-M rocket when it was at about 150 km (about 93 miles) altitude. The separation of the satellite from the third stage didn’t take place so they fell down and were destroyed. The value of the satellite was about 145 million Euros (about $200 millions).
The novel “Divergence” by Charles Sheffield was published for the first time in 1991. It’s the second book of the Heritage universe and is the sequel to “Summertide”.
E.C. Tally is an artificial intelligence but his mission requires a physical body. For this reason, an organic human body is grown for him and his brain is implanted in it. This way, he can interact with human beings on the planet Quake, in the Dobelle system, where he’s sent to see what happened after the Summertide because no news came from it anymore.
During the Summertide, the planet Quake has literally opened and out and an artificial object came out of it. It went towards the planet Gargantua, where the group of humans and aliens came to investigate the Summertime follows it. The hope is to discover the secrets of the Builders but their structures can still hide dangers after millions of years.
