The new and improved Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a dragon-shaped cosmic mirage and other celestial wonders, showing it is working better than ever following its latest repairs in May.
One day our descendants will reach the limit of particle accelerator technology. We'll surely run out of space and money long before the smallest building blocks of the universe can be probed with machines, because of the massive energies required.
Mainframe blogger Trevor Eddolls, managing director of iTech-Ed, started working on mainframes in 1979, and now runs the Virtual IMS Connection mainframe user group. He says, "In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the mainframe was the place to be. Previously older people would have been replaced by younger IT staff. But now younger people want the excitement of new technologies like Java and SQL.