2020

Arm CEO Simon Segars

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The leading graphics processor company NVIDIA has reached an agreement to buy the British microprocessor company Arm Ltd. from the Japanese telecommunications holding SoftBank Group Corp. for $12 billion in cash and $21.5 billion in shares. The agreement provides for an additional $5 billion that SoftBank could receive under certain conditions and $1.5 billion for Arm employees for a total of 40 billion dollars. The operation is expected to close in 18 months.

Adelophthalmus pyrrhae specimen (Photo courtesy Melanie Hopkins Photo)

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An article published in the journal “Current Biology” reports a study on an almost complete fossil of Adelophthalmus pyrrhae, a species that lived about 340 million years ago, in the Carboniferous period, in today’s France. This species belongs to the eurypterid group, the arthropods commonly known as sea scorpions. A team of researchers led by Professor James Lamsdell of West Virginia University subjected it to a CT-scan that allowed them to create a 3D reconstruction. This made it possible to carry out a detailed examination that brought to light some anatomical characteristics of its respiratory system that indicate that it could breathe air. These conclusions suggest that the ancestors of the arachnids, related to the eurypterids, were also semi-terrestrial in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods.

Diana Rigg in1973 (Photo NBC Television)

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Actress Diana Rigg passed away yesterday due to cancer that was diagnosed in March.

Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, this is her full name, was born on July 20, 1938, in Doncaster, Yorkshire. Diana Rigg’s acting career began in the theater, and in the late 1950s, she also began to find roles in television productions. Fame came when she was cast to play Emma Peel in the TV show “The Avengers”.

The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison

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The novel “The Technicolor Time Machine” by Harry Harrison was published for the first time in 1967.

Climactic Studio is about to shut down, also because its owner L. M. Greenspan has always used the income for his personal purposes. Barney Hendrickson is too poor a director to hope for a good job and is forced to come up with what seems like an absolutely insane project: shooting a movie in the past transporting the crew in a time machine created by progessor Hewitt.

L. M. Greenspan is persuaded to give Barney Hendrickson a minimal budget for a movie about the Vikings to be shot in the year 1,000. After their arrival, they capture a Viking named Ottar and, despite the language problems, convince him to work for them as a local contact to procure the services of other Vikings to act in the movie. However, complications in the present and in the past risk wrecking the project.

10 years of NetMassimo blog

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10 years ago the NetMassimo blog made its debut. Many things have changed, and probably many more will change in the future. After the first period of experiments, the blog started having a more defined structure in terms of themes covered, but it was never static, so it could still transform in the future in ways that I can’t even predict now.