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The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for its last mission (photo NASA)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is being retired ending the Space Shuttles era

Massimo Luciani July 21, 2011 1

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has just landed safely, completing the last of its 33 missions, this one with the official code STS-135. Its retirement marks the end of the Space Shuttle program.

Google+ passed the ten million users threshold, what does that mean?

Massimo Luciani July 13, 2011 1

There’s no official information but according to estimates made by third parties today Google+, the new social network launched by Google, has passed the ten million users threshold. What does this mean?

HTC Corporation acquires S3 Graphics

Massimo Luciani July 8, 2011 1

Taiwanese mobile phones manufacturer HTC Corporation announced that it has acquired S3 Graphics, a company specializing in graphics chips, for $300 million to be paid in cash in a deal that should be completed by the end of this year. The actual target of the acquisition are the 235 S3’s patents.

Specific Media acquires MySpace

Massimo Luciani June 30, 2011 1

Specific Media will pay $35 million, partly in cash and partly in shares, to buy MySpace. It seems that News Corporation will retain a 5% ownership of the social network. In 2006 it was the most popular social network in the USA.

Some Pleiades supercomputer racks (photo NASA)

NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer is among the most powerful in the world

Massimo Luciani June 21, 2011 4

At the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, NASA has announced that its Pleiades supercomputer is now ranked seventh among the world’s most powerful computers. It has 182 racks for a total of 11,648 nodes, a total of 185 TByte of RAM, a total of 6.9 PByte mass storage and to run this supercomputer there’s the Linux operating system, specifically SuSE Linux.