Scottie Maurice Pippen was born on September 25, 1965 in Hamburg, Arkansas, USA. With Michael Jordan he formed one of the best duos in the NBA history and together with other players they won 6 NBA titles. He was also part of the Dream Team that won the gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics. He also played with the Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers.
Google introduced a new compression algorithm called Brotli in order to reduce the traffic of web pages. The idea is that web sites transmit everything that composes the various pages in this compressed format allowing in this way also a higher loading speed. Google released Brotli as free / open source software under the Apache 2.0 license and put the source code available to anyone on GitHub.
The novel “Software” by Rudy Rucker was published for the first time in 1982. It won the Philip K. Dick Award. It’s the first book of the “ware” tetralogy.
Cobb Anderson is dying. He doesn’t have enough money to afford a heart transplant and drowns his last sorrows in alcohol. When he lost all hope, he’s approached by a bopper, one of the sentient robots that evolved after the programming carried by Anderson himself.
The bopper offers Cobb Anderson immortality but he must go to the Moon, where the boppers have built their society and where there’s also the laboratory where they could cure their creator. Accompanied by the weird cabbie Sta-Hi, Anderson starts his journey but the boppers’ offer hides a catch because immortality can only be achieved by transferring his mind into a bopper body.
At the Brighton Community Stadium in Brighton what is perhaps the biggest surprise in the rugby history happened today. In this busy Saturday in the Rugby World Cup, Japan has in fact defeated South Africa 34-32. It really is an outstanding achievement because the South Africans were by far the favorites and on paper they were supposed to easily defeat the Japanese.
In recent days, IBM announced more news about Watson Health, the business unit officially opened in April 2015 with the aim of exploiting its Watson cognitive computing system in the medical field. Deborah DiSanzo was named general manager of Watson Health, which will have its headquarters in Kendall Square, an area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. IBM also announced new collaborations and new cloud services.
