Present Music will open its 33rd season Aug. 30 with Ince by Ince, a program of five recent works by Turkish American composer Kamran Ince, including three American premieres. These pieces cover great ground stylistically, says Ince, who will conduct the concert, but they are united by a fascination with Ottoman court music, a style of Turkish classical music he describes as “very serious” and spiritual.
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"Your phone’s operating system is compromised," Victor Cocchia, chief executive of Vysk Communications, tells me point blank. "There are millions of new pieces of malware created each month, and the bad guys’ software will almost always circumvent the good guys’ software. That’s why we do everything outside of the phone." Outside? For most people, a smartphone case is an accessory to (hopefully) keep their screen from cracking when they drop their phone. To Cocchia, it's a piece of high-end security hardware that can solve the problem of vulnerable smartphone software.
Earlier this week, the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it had achieved another technical milestone under its $212.5 million Commercial Crew Integrated Capability contract with NASA. The contract is aimed at aiding SNC in the development of its Dream Chaser spacecraft, a reusable spacecraft which is designed to carry astronauts into low Earth orbit and, the company hopes, carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
