The story of Lenovo computers sold with a pre-installed program called Superfish which has the unwelcome consequence of catastrophically undermining their security created quite a stir. This software was provided for a time with the new computers as a specific decision by Lenovo and only now it’s been recognized as a threat.
The novel “Starseed” by Spider and Jeanne Robinson was published for the first time in 1991. It’s the sequel to “Stardance”.
Rain “Morgan” McLeod had been a dancer for many years, until her body started having problems that forced her to give up dance. For her that wasn’t just a job but her dream so giving it up it was awful. The only hope for her is to turn to Starseed Foundation to become parto of the Stardance and join with a symbiotic life form.
To recapture her dream, Rain McLeod joins the Starseed Foundation’s program and, together with a group of other candidates, travels to its space station. There, she has to learn to dance again, this time in the absence of gravity, and also to prepare herself mentally to get to the moment in which she has to decide if she wants to go all the way with the program and have the symbiosis. On Earth, however, there are those who want to stop the Starseed Foundation at all costs, even with violence.
A fundraising campaign was just completed on Kickstarter site for two more episodes of “Star Trek Continues”, the web series that continues the adventures of the classic “Star Trek” series. They needed $100,000 to continue the project, they collected $214.584 and this will also allow to create new sets for the engineering section of the Enterprise and for a planet to be included in one of the episodes.
“Star Trek Continues” is a non-profit production and for this reason authorized by CBS, which owns the rights to the famous saga. The purpose of this web series is to tell the last two years of the Enterprise five-year mission, a continuation of the original series. It was developed by Vic Mignogna, who also plays Captain Kirk.
According to a study described in a paper published in the journal “Science”, between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of plastic in the oceans were thrown in 2010 by people living within 50 kilometers from the coasts. During that year, a total of 275 million tons of plastic waste were generated in 192 coastal nations.
This research was conducted by a group of researchers at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis led by Jenna Jambeck, assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia’s College of Engineering. The researchers looked at the debris entering the oceans from land, seas and other sources.
The novel “The Ragged Astronauts” by Bob Shaw was published for the first time in 1986. It’s the first book of the trilogy of the Land and Overland trilogy. It won the BSFA Award for best science fiction novel of the year.
On Land the situation has been stable for a long time but suddenly the ptertha, creatures potentially lethal because of a poison, become an even greater threat. Their poison seems to have become even deadlier and start to actively attack people.
Among the castes of one of Land’s kingdoms’ feudal society, it’s the philosophers who study the ptertha to seek a solution to the problem. Their old leader has a revolutionary idea: migrate to Overland, Land’s twin planet divided from it by a few thousand kilometers. Airships can make the trip but only when the situation begins to be desperate the King decides to implement it.
