April 4, 2014

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Only 10 days after his appointment, Brendan Eich (Photo ©Darcy Padilla) has resigned as CEO of the Mozilla Foundation. His decision came as a result of the open accusations of homophobia against him, with the resignation of three of the six members of the board of directors and various threats and calls for boycotts against Mozilla products, starting with the Firefox browser.

The Sentinel-1A satellite on the Soyuz rocket right after liftoff (Photo ESA–S. Corvaja)

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A few hours ago, the Sentinel-1A satellite, the first of the GMES / Copernicus program, blasted of from the Kourou spaceport, French Guiana, on a carrier rocket Soyuz-STA/Fregat. Soon after, the satellite regularly separated from the upper stage of the rocket and started sending signals. A few hours later it started deploying its solar panels.