August 28, 1958, a scientist from Texas Instruments, Jack St. Clair Kilby demonstrated the management of the company is the world’s first integrated circuit. With these devices (which later began to be called “chip”) computer industry acquired such characteristics as modularity: the property extending from the Assembly of the computer at home to mass produce the gadgets somewhere in China.
Integrated circuit changed little over the decades of its existence
On opening up of specialists from several companies to establish mass production of such chips, engineers had a lot to work on debugging the compatibility (to the computer hardware of different companies are interchangeable components), and on the stability/safety of such compounds — in particular, on the electrical compatibility of the components worked Czech physicist Kurt Lehovec.
One of the first serial chip in the Soviet Union
The most prominent representative of the integral components are computer CPUs, which are now so willing to replace their systems enthusiasts.
28 August 1993 the spacecraft Galileo took pictures of one of the most mysterious asteroids in the Solar system. Named after the Greek nymph, the asteroid “(243) IDA” is located exactly between Mars and Jupiter, and its diameter is 32 km far from the record for its size, but these dimensions had to purchase a separate satellite the size of 1.4 km — this “honor” is still not awarded, none of the known asteroids.
Asteroid “(243) IDA” and his companion
After the “Galileo” on the way to Jupiter was able to photograph the surface, scientists discovered many craters on the surface of IDA — so, this celestial body is in the Solar system, a huge amount of time.
Important was the discovery that the asteroids (peacefully floating in space body) subsequently form a threat for the planets, the meteorites, after two such bodies collide under the influence of gravity, the larger bodies in space.
“Fiery body” a usual feature films, are formed only at the time they dive to the Ground — themselves meteorites and their progenitors, the asteroids have long grown cold and the decay of radioactive isotopes in them ceased. They represent fragments of long destroyed planets, and their surface is composed mostly of iron-bearing materials.
The falling asteroids and meteorites to the Earth in due time caused the extinction of dinosaurs, and dramatic climate changes on the planet. In the short term, humanity is not in danger, though, scientists from NASA say that, about the year 2068, the Earth may collapse major asteroid Apophis. Now he is about 14 million kilometers from us, and experts suggest that the probability of collision is negligible to take it seriously.
On 28 August 2008, Google launched app store Android Market for “guglofonov”. This service, later renamed “Google Play”, became one of the main content stores in the world, even despite the fact that was launched several months later than the Apple App Store are familiar to the users iPhone/iPad.
The Google app store has survived several redesign during its existence
Today it is difficult to find a smartphone, which would be absent a centralized way of installing apps, downloading music or movies, but 7 years ago this method of delivery electronic entertainment was a revelation. And one of the important features what the Android Market was the possibility of licensing the application store any mobile phone manufacturers. Of course, the license cost the brands are not free, but compatibility issues and a variety of programs and games Google took over.
Today, manufacturers of Android smartphones are free to set their devices Google services and to manage local app stores — in this case, Android is free. And in Russia not so long ago there was a scandal in which the national search engine Yandex claimed that Google puts ultimatums to the developers of smartphones, which dare to set the services of the Russian company instead of the standard kit from the makers of Android. The court, incidentally, did not satisfy the claim of “Yandex” Google, to compromise the parties never came, but the development of firmware “Yandex.Kit” has been discontinued.