About two weeks ago the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Chairman Tom Wheeler stated that soon new rules will be proposed that might allow Internet services providers to demand payments to avoid filters on competitors’ traffic. This could disrupt the Internet with higher costs for users. In response, more than one hundred technology companies sent a joint letter to the FCC asking to protect net neutrality.
The novel “The Book of the Stars” by Ian Watson was published for the first time in 1984. It’s the second of the Black Current trilogy and is the sequel to “The Book of the River”.
The war between the two coasts continues but eventually the attempted invasion of the east coast from the west coast fails. Yaleen would like to go back to a normal life but the Black Current wants to send her to Eeden while the publication of “The Book of the River” is making her more and more foamous. The young woman is looking for Dr. Edrick among the prisoners, believing that he can still pose a danger, but can’t find him.
Eventually, Yaleen finds time to go to visit her parents and meets Narya, her strange little sister. Her fame grows so a lot of people want to meet her, making it hard to keep her journey private. Dr. Edrick, who survived the war, finds her as well and manages to kill her. For Yaleen it’s the beginning of a new adventure in which she’ll have to face the Godmind.
The Planck space telescope completed its mission in October 2013 but in these cases the analysis of the data may continue for years. It’s for this reason that only now a map of the gravitational field of the Milky Way was published, an image compiled from the observation of the polarized light emitted by interstellar dust present in the galaxy.
Last month the International Space Apps Challenge was held, a NASA’s collaborative program that aims to produce open source solutions to be applied to problems that affect the Earth and space. A project chosen among 500 others is OpenCuriosity, an open source rover inspired by the Curiosity Mars Rover based on Arduino circuit boards.
In the night between Saturday and Sunday the former British tennis player Elena Baltacha passed away. In November 2013 she announced her retirement from tennis and in early 2014 was diagnosed with a liver cancer that caused her death. Elena Baltacha was a professional tennis player until november 2013. In her career she reached no. 49 in the WTA rankings and won a total of 11 ITF tournaments.
