June 2013

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

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The novel “Chasm City” by Alastair Reynolds was published for the first time in 2001. It’s part of the Revelation Space universe. It won the British Science Fiction Association award.

Tanner Mirabel is a security expert who for years oversaw the protection of a powerful man on the planet Sky’s Edge and of his wife. When the two of them are killed, Tanner is taken by the lust for revenge and chases Argent Reivich, the instigator of the double murder, to the planet Yellowstone. That’s an inhospitable planet where, however, they built Chasm City, a habitat composed of huge shape-shifting skyscrapers. When he arrives, however, he discover that the city was devastated by an alien plague.

Malcolm McDowell at the Cannes Film Festival 2011

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Malcolm John Taylor, this is his birth name, was born on June 13, 1943 in Horsforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Malcolm McDowell has done more than 100 movies but his name will be especially linked to the role of Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”.

Waze 3.5 screen shot underi iOS 6

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Google has officially announced the acquisition of Waze, the application for social navigation. For several days there had been rumors about this deal and the doubts were due essentially to an interest by Facebook as well to buy it. The amount of money that will be paid hasn’t been declared officially: the rumors of the past few days were talking about $1.3 billion, now it seems to be around $1 billion.

The Chinese Shenzhou 10 spacecraft launch (Photo courtesy Xinhua/Li Gang. All rights reserved)

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In China it was afternoon when the Chinese Shenzhou 10 spacecraft was successfully launched using a Long March 2F/G rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. After its separation from the second stage of the rocket, the spacecraft regularly entered low Earth orbit to start its mission scheduled to last 15 days.