Google has announced that it has acquired Nest Labs, a company that operates in the field of home automation, offering products such as thermostats and smoke detectors controllable via the Internet, for $3.2 billion in cash. According to the press release, the company will continue to operate under the direction of its co-founder Tony Fadell, who a few years ago was one of the creators of the iPod when he worked for Apple.
The novel “The Well of the Worlds” by Henry Kuttner was published for the first time in 1952 in the magazine “Startling Stories” and in 1953 as a book.
Clifford Sawyer is investigating a uranium mine where he has to deal with its owners: Klai Ford, a strange girl who long ago had been found in the same mine with no memory, and William Alper, a power-hungry man. Strange ghost stories are told about the mine but Sawyer doesn’t believe them, at least not until weird things start happening.
The last meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) gave the opportunity to present the latest discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope. Among thise there’s a photograph with unprecedented detail of Abell 2744, also called Pandora Cluster, a giant galaxy cluster.
Astronomers had already observed Abell 2744 with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011, investigating the history of this cluster. Their conclusions were that at least four galactic clusters had crashed into one another to form a super-cluster never seen before.
“Nightmare of Eden” is an adventure of the seventeenth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1979 featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K-9. It follows “The Creature from the Pit” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Bob Baker and directed by Alan Bromly.
The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker), Romana II (Lalla Ward) and K9 arrive on the starship Empress that has just emerged from hyperspace in the same coordinates as the cargo ship Hecate causing a crash. The two Time Lords offer their help to solve the situation but it’s clear that the co-pilot was under the influence of some drug. The Doctor recognizes the symptoms of Vraxoin, a drug which trade had been eradicated.
On board the Empress there’s the zoologist Tryst together with his assistant Della. They have a machine that records portions of planets they have visited on special crystals. The Doctor realizes that the machine has a problem in the stability of its contents. In particular, the recording of the planet Eden seems all too realistic.
