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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Potential

Buffy The Vampire SlayerThe 134th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on UPN. James Marsters and Alyson Hannigan also star. Felicia Day (Mystery Science Theater 3000) guest stars.

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Mars Exploration Rovers Uncrewed Spaceflight

Spirit’s murky memory

SpiritJPL engineers begin experiencing severe difficulty communicating with the Spirit Mars rover, which had successfully rolled off of its landing platform the previous week. Just as the rover is ready to begin its travels on the surface of Mars, it stops communicating with Earth, or with any orbiting spacecraft overhead. A command is transmitted to force Spirit to report its condition, and the resulting telemetry indicates that the rover has been continuously rebooting its internal computer system. By the weekend, after worries and warnings that Spirit would probably never regain 100% functionality, JPL’s engineers re-establish communications and received enough diagnostic information to narrow the problem down to Spirit’s flash memory and handling software. Engineers soon resolve the problem, transmitting instructions to work around the potentially corrupted memory, and restoring Spirit so it can continue its exploration.

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Battlestar Galactica: Bastille Day

Battlestar GalacticaSci-Fi channel airs third episode of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Richard Hatch, who played Apollo in the original series, makes his first appearance as political agitator Tom Zarek (and plays most of his scenes against Jamie Bamber, the new series’ Apollo). Brent Stait (Andromeda) also guest stars.

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Video Games

Atari files for bankruptcy

AtariThe 21st century iteration of Atari, now owned by the French video game company formerly known as Infogrames, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it tries to disentangle itself from its parent company’s descent into insolvency. Revealed in the filing is that, despite numerous modern games distributed under the Atari “label”, licensing of the 1970s Atari logo accounts for almost one-fifth of Atari’s current revenue. The classic Atari game portfolio dating back to such games as Pong and Asteroids is put up for sale in an effort to raise funds for the troubled company.

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Arrowverse (DC) Franchises Television

Legends Of Tomorrow: Pilot, Part 1

ArrowThe first episode of Legends Of Tomorrow premieres on the CW, starring Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Caity Lotz (Mad Men), and Victor Garber (Alias). Stephen Amell guest stars; Legends will share continuity, and frequently cross over, with CW stablemates Arrow and The Flash (and other DC series yet to come).

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