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Space Race Blast Off

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NASA has announced the immediate availability of the game Space Race Blast Off on Facebook. This game contains questions on various scientific and technological topics but also about NASA’s history and pop culture. Players can choose from 14 predefined avatars which include an alien, an android and a robot. The game is generally multiplayer so if there are other players two of them are selected to play with you, otherwise you can play alone.

Pioneer One

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In December 2011 the six episodes first season of sci-fi web series “Pioneer One” ended. This is a show created thanks to viewers donations released under the Creative Commons license and distributed on the Internet.

Scott Thompson

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Four months after firing Carol Bartz, Yahoo! Inc. has chosen Scott Thompson as its new CEO. Thompson, who will officially take office on January 9, was born in 1958 and has a technical background because he was president of PayPal but previously held roles connected to technological innovation in that company as well as in others such as Inovant, a Visa subsidiary.