Early in the morning of July 4, NASA purposefully crashed an 820-pound chunk of metal into a comet at about 23,000 mph. The flight of the Deep Impact probe, which started in early January as the third part of a billion-dollar mission, was designed to see what makes up a comet.
Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. last week stepped up its efforts to collect license fees from Linux users and reported a quarterly net loss as a result of legal costs associated with its intellectual property rights campaign.