May 2015

Night of the Humans by David Llewellyn

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The novel “Night of the Humans” by David Llewellyn was published for the first time in 2010.

When the Tardis picks up a trans-temporal distress call, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond end up on the Gyre, a giant mass of junk that have been accumulating in space for a few hundred thousand years. Upon arriving, the two travelers get separated because they get involved in the war between humans and Sittuun.

The descendants of the crew of a human ship wrecked on the Gyre regressed to barbarism, creating a strange religion. When the Sittuun arrived, humans declared that they are Evil because they tried to warn them that a comet is going to hit the Gyre. Another spaceship arrives, commanded by Captain Dirk Slipstream, who offers his help.

Cassette with hundreds of IBM Silicon Photonic Chips with an American coin to compare their size (Image courtesy IBM. All rights reserved)

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A few days ago, IBM announced that it has produced for the first time a fully integrated silicon photonic chips. This is the prototype of a transceiver to be used in data centers to get transmissions up to 100 Gb/s. The aim is to increase the transfer speed of large volumes of data in cloud and Big Data applications, those which require an exchange of information very high and require specific technologies.

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The novel “Caduceus Wild” by Ward Moore and Robert Bradford was published for the first time in 1959 serialized in the magazine “Science Fiction Stories”. A new version was published in 1978.

After a war that saw the use of bacteriological weapons, doctors have become the only people able to rescue the survivors. For this reason, in some countries they ended up taking power and established the Medarchy in North America. The continent has become essentially a hospital where citizens are patients. The misfits are considered sick and, called Abnormals, are generally tanathized.

Three Abnormals set off for a long journey in which they have to avoid the Medarchy police to survive. They’re in contact with rebel groups who want to overthrow the regime but it’s not always easy to figure out who they can trust. Even within the Medarchy there are various factions so the situation is less stable than it looks.

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This weekend in Madrid the basketball Euroleague 2014/2015 Final Four will be played. Today, Friday, May 15, there will be the semifinals and on Sunday, May 17, there will be the finals. The semifinals are CSKA Moscow – Olympiakos Piraeus and Real Madrid – Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.