IBM has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to acquire the provider of video streaming Ustream. No official figures about the acquisition were provided but the magazine Fortune leaked the news on Wednesday, providing a value of $130 million. For IBM the point of the deal is to add another service to its business cloud offers, one of the fast growing sectors and not just for IBM.
An article published in the journal “PLOS ONE” describes a dinosaur with a “sail” on its back that lived about 125 million years ago in today’s Spain. Its skeleton isn’t complete but according to the team of the National Distance Education University (NDEU) in Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM) who examined it its characteristics are sufficiently distinctive to create a new genus called Morelladon. The species was named Morelladon beltrani.
An article published in the journal “Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology” describes a research on a juvenile Chasmosaurus, one of the rarest discoveries among dinosaurs, occurred in 2010. For the first time a nearly complete skeleton of a young specimen belonging to the ceratopsids family, the same as the more famous Triceratops. These fossils give us an idea about how a Chasmosaurus appeared at a young age.
The novelette “The Fifth Dragon” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 2014.
Adriana Corta is working in the mines on the Moon there is having a love story with Achi Debasso, an ecologist of Syrian origin. They are two very different women who found each other in a frontier that’s hostile but in great expansion. For their future it will be crucial to decide whether to return to Earth or to keep on living on the Moon. The point of no return will be marked by the moment their bones are too atrophied to return to Earth.
