Google has announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for a total of $2.9 billion. $1.41 billion will be paid at the end of the agreement, $660 million in cash and $750 million in Lenovo shares. The remaining $1.5 billion will be paid over the next three years. Google bought Motorola Mobility in August 2011 for $12.5 billion.
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers from the MITRE Corporation and Harvard University has taken a step forward that may be the key to the creation of nanomachines. In an article published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, the team led by Charles Lieber, a nanotechnology expert at Harvard University, explains the method of creation of a microscopic processor consisting of hundreds nanotransistors.
Yesterday, Commander Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy, two Russian cosmonauts who are part of Expedition 38 on the International Space Station, performed a spacewalk to install a high-resolution video camera and a medium-resolution still camera on the Zvezda module of the Station but they had some problems. Specifically, the still camera didn’t send the expected telemetry signals.
Google has confirmed the acquisition of DeepMind, a British company that deals with artificial intelligence and is headquartered in London. The price that Google will spend for the last of a series of acquisitions in the last year hasn’t been confirmed but according to various sources is between $400 and $500 million.
The novel “The Space Vampires” by Colin Wilson was published for the first time in 1976.
The starship Hermes is on a mission to explore the asteroids when it runs into a huge spaceship apparently abandoned. Captain Carlsen and his crew start exploring it and discover the bodies of what appear totally like human beings. These bodies are in a state of apparent death and it’s decided to bring back three of them to Earth.
A journalist, the son of an old friend of Captain Carlsen, is allowed to enter the laboratory in which the bodies found in space are kept. While he’s checking one of them, a woman, she wakes up and absorbs his life force. The aliens are vampires and if they aren’t stopped the consequences will be devastating for humanity.
