Yesterday: New Photoshop, sadyaschiysya "Phoenix", etc.
The court in Moscow has suspended the service "of Ingushetia. Ru" Activities suspended purely formal, "to ascertain." Editorial Staff, whom authorities accuse Ingushetia in the publication "extremist" materials, has already announced that because the servers are located in the U.S., Russian importance of addressing the court tends to zero, and the site will continue to work in the former regime.
The new version Photoshop will use graphics accelerators. Thanks to the support multicore processors and graphics hardware acceleration Photoshop CS4 can almost instantly perform operations on scaling and turn giant images (pictures permission from the test was 442 million pixels, and the file was 2 GB). Moreover, it seems, Adobe Photoshop is going to realize the opportunity to work with three-dimensional model that is in itself interesting.
"Phoenix" on Mars: descent from orbit apparatus photographed image (full link image available), sent Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, it seems as though "Phoenix" descends into akkurat desyatikilometrovy crater Haymdallya, but in reality it landed quite far from the crater. Failure to Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is being implemented through a link with the "Phoenix", the eve led to a temporary loss of communications - throughout the day today, NASA promises to involve other orbiting apparatus - Mars Odyssey - for the resumption of work with the "Phoenix".
Landed "Phoenix" (courtesy of NASA). Click on the image to view full-text version.
In the United States passed a law against genetic discrimination bill Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, on whose training lasted almost two decades, neither was adopted almost unanimously by Congress in both houses. GINA prohibits genetic discrimination in health insurance and employment.