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About a year after the release of the source code of the original version of Doom 3’s graphics engine and only a few weeks after the Doom 3 BFG Edition, which contains Doom, Doom ][, Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil expansion pack together to 7 new levels titled “The Lost Mission” was published, the source code of the BFG Edition was released as well.

Screenshot from the 100,000 Stars application in Google Chrome

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Google has put online a web application for its Chrome browser called “100,000 Stars” that allows you to explore an area of ​​the Milky Way which includes one hundred thousand stars. This is an interactive application with various features that allow to zoom in and out to go from the Sun to the entire “neighborhood” with all the possible intermediate steps.

Alan Turing statue in Sackville Park in Manchester

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The mathematician and computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in London, England. He’s one of the fathers of computer science and in particular of artificial intelligence. During World War II he worked on deciphering German secret codes.