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Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88

Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.

His death of acute kidney failure occurred at his home in Atherton, Calif., after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to one of his daughters, Diana Engelbart Mangan.

Back in the 1950s and '60s, when mainframes took up entire rooms and were fed data on punch cards, Engelbart already was envisioning a day when computers would empower people to share ideas and solve problems in ways that seemed unfathomable at the time.

Engelbart considered his work to be all about "augmenting human intellect" — a mission that boiled down to making computers more intuitive to use. One of the biggest advances was the mouse, which he developed in the 1960s and patented in 1970. At the time, it was a wooden shell covering two metal wheels: an "X-Y position indicator for a display system."

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Meteor attack in Russia injures 1,200, causes billion rubles of damage

Meteor attack in Russia injures 1,200, causes billion rubles of damage
 The Russian Academy of Sciences, which investigates  the unexpected "meteor attack" in the Urals, has shared preliminary results with the general public.

"According to our estimates, the body was a few meters large, it weighed about ten tons, and its power was a few kilotons. The celestial body entered the atmosphere at the speed of 15-20 kilometers per second, collapsed at an altitude of 30-50 kilometers, and the movement of fragments at high speed caused powerful glow and a strong shock wave. The bulk of the material of the falling body evaporated, the remaining pieces slowed down and could fall to the ground as meteorites," ITAR-TASS quoted the press service of the RAS.

The flight of the meteorite in the sky over the Chelyabinsk region was accompanied with three explosions of varying power, the chairman of the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, Sergey Zakharov said. "From what I saw, the balls of fire were flying from the south-east to north-west. There were three explosions that were preceded with a bright flash of light, with a temperature of approximately 2,500 degrees Centigrade. The first explosion was the strongest," the scientist said.

According to most recent information from the Interior Ministry, as many as 1,200 people suffered from the meteor attack. The local authorities have evaluated the damage at one billion rubles.

A report from the Russian Geographical Society said it was a bolide explosion, rather than a meteor shower. "A bolide is a large celestial body, actually a large meteor, that exploded when entering the lower, denser layers of the atmosphere, and showered the ground with debris, - said Zakharov. - A meteor shower is practically safe - it is a flow of crushed rocks falling from space. Repeat: we had a fireball, or a bolide explosion."