As of August 1, Google+ Photos will be gradually eliminated. The social network users can instead use Google Photos, the new independent photo management application. This change is part of the reorganization of the Google+ platform already announced in March 2015 and in this case is aimed at promoting Photos as a standalone service.
The novel “The SHIVA Syndrome” by Alan Joshua was published for the first time in 2015.
Beau Walker’s academic career is stranded when he’s called to be part of a team that, under military supervision, aims to investigate a mysterious accident near Moscow. A crater is what remains after everything around a Russian laboratory research was disintegrated. The investigation is carried out in an international collaboration that is also very secret.
Beau Walker risks his life in a situation that is becoming more and more complicated because everything suggests that it’s the result of experiments on paranormal powers went wrong. The SHIVA project is the American counterpart of the Russian project that caused the catastrophe, how to avoid repeating it when none of the scientists involved has a clear idea of what they’re doing and vital information is kept hidden from them?
An article recently published in the “Journal of the Geological Society” describes a research on the fossils of the Lower Fezouata formation in the south-east of Morocco, a deposit discovered only five years ago. These fossils shed light on the evolution of many families of animals in the Ordovician period, between 485 and 444 million years ago. In particular, it shows that some of the oldest animals survived millions of years longer than it was inferred from previously found fossils.
The short story “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia was published for the first time in 2012 and translated to English by Ken Liu.
Ning is a child who is growing up under the strict protection of the Monk in Ghost Street, where he’s the only real person in the midst of a group of ghosts. The Carnival is an opportunity to discover more about himself and about the ghosts he lives with but what’s real?
That Adobe Flash wasn’t exactly safe was a known fact. It’s one of those standards that became established for marketing and not technical reasons and keeps on being widely used even if today there are better technologies. However, after leaked documents revealed new vulnerabilities used to take control of other people’s computers, some web giants started taking action against its use. Alex Stamos, the Facebook’s security chief officer, demanded an end-of-life date for Flash. The Mozilla Foundation has gone further and started blocking the use of Flash in its browser Firefox.
