The official announcement came that Amazon has bought Twitch for $970 million to be paid in cash. Twitch is a video streaming platform particularly targeted to video games with the broadcast of games played by users. Twitch offers both live and on-demand streaming. This news comes after months of rumors of possible acquisitions, especially by Google.
The novel “The Wrecks of Time”, also known as “The Rituals of Infinity” by Michael Moorcock was published for the first time werialized between November 1965 and January 1966 in the magazine “New Worlds” under the pseudonym James Colvin and in 1967 as a book.
Professor Faustaff is traveling in the California of one of the various versions of the Earth when he meets Nancy, who is hitchhiking. Together, they stop at a motel, where they meet another traveler who seems to Faustaff immediately suspect. He’d like to investigate but gets called for an emergency.
The D-squads are back at work. These mysterious people cause Unstable Matter Situations, phenomena that lead to the destruction of one Earth. Faustaff and his organization are trying to stop them but the Professor soon realizes that the situation is more complex than he previously thought.
On Thursday August 21, 2014 the former astronaut Steven Nagel passed away due to cancer. He’s survived by his wife Linda M. Godwin, also a former astronaut, and their two daughters. In 1985, he was part of the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery in the STS-51-G mission. In 1985, he was part of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger in its last completed mission, the STS-61-A commanded by Hank Hartsfield. In 1991, he was the commander of the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the STS-37 mission. In 1993, he was the commander of the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia in the STS-55 mission.
Two satellites of the Galileo project were launched into orbit yesterday, when it was afternoon in Europe, from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, using a Soyuz ST-B rocket with a Fregat upper stage. The two satellites are part of the system alternative to GPS made by the European Union. It took nearly four hours before they separated from the Fregat stage and entered into orbit. Initially it seemed that everything went fine but after a few hours anomalies were detected in the satellites orbits with consequences yet to be assessed.
The novella “The Rose” by Charles L. Harness was published for the first time in 1953 in the magazine “Authentic SF”.
Anna van Tuyl is a composer, a dancer and a psychiatrist who is trying to finish a piece titled “The Rose”. When she realizes that her body is changing and thinks she’s getting ugly a period of crisis start for her. However, at the same time she finds more inspiration for her piece.
When Anna starts analyzing the famous painter Ruy Jacques, she realizes that he’s also undergoing the same physical changes and that they’re at a more advanced stage. The strange relationship that begins between Anna and Ruy aggravates the one between Ruy and his wife Martha, who is very jealous. Husband and wife are heatedly debating the conflict between art and science and Anna is caught in the middle.
