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Microsoft changes licensing.
Mosquitos with glowing balls.
Russian built launcher fails.
NASA plans to finish the space station.
Microsoft changes licensing.
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Microsoft's new policy seeks to reconcile new technology and old licensing models. Starting in December, the company will calculate the cost of server software products by the number of running instances of that product on any given server, rather than the number of physical processors contained in that server.
Mosquitos with glowing balls.
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The GM mosquito should make it easier to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes by making the specially bred males easier to identify. One strategy to control disease-carrying insects is to flood an area with millions of sterile males.
Russian built launcher fails.
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The ESA official in charge of the CryoSat project, Pascal Gilles, said: "The second stage continued to burn after the onboard computer told it to shut down. There was no separation between the second and third stages of the rocket, and the third failed to ignite."
NASA plans to finish the space station.
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NASA’s revised space station plan, the result of several months of internal study, is slated for public release later in October. A preview of the so-called Shuttle/Station Configuration Options Team (S/SCOT) study provided to Space News shows that NASA intends to launch Europe’s Columbus laboratory module and the Japanese Experiment Module before retiring the shuttle. But NASA’s revised space station plan would eliminate the Russian Solar Power Platform and the Centrifuge Accommodation Module that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had agreed to build for NASA under a barter agreement. Both the Russian power platform and the centrifuge module are designed to launch aboard the space shuttle.