First working invisibility cloak, in the microwave spectrum

The following is a video released by Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc explaining and demonstrating their prototype invisibility cloak. For the MICROWAVE spectrum. Which is outside our visual range,…

First working invisibility cloak, in the microwave spectrum

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Solidarity has gone hypertextual. The student movement that made its voice so powerfully audible in the fee protests was largely organised on Twitter using the hashtag #solidarity. “Being able to contact thousands of people with one short tag was really important,” says Jessica, 20, a student activist who claims to have been “radicalised” by Twitter. “#Solidarity has very obviously now become the link between all of those fighting against the same government in different ways,” she goes on.

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The US state today is a nexus of power for corporate interests. Since it must pretend to serve the people, it fears the truth may leak. Hence its parallel campaigns against WikiLeaks: to crush it through the precarity of the internet and to formally limit freedom of the press.

States seek to imprison the Anonymous protesters rather than official torturers and murderers. The day when our governments prosecute war criminals and tell us the truth, internet crowd control may be our most pressing remaining problem. I will rejoice if I see that day.

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mini. Quiet Babylon: Interrobang-ON‽

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Computers are PRETTY NEAT

Everyone uses a computer nowadays. I bet you are using one right now! Computers are great. They can solve hard math problems, calculate artillery firing tables, and show a picture of a cat. Amazing!

But there is a CATCH!

When he was inventing the computer,…

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Word Lens

How about an onboard, dynamic AR language translation app for your iPhone?

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(Insert obligatory: just needs Spex to be perfect cyberpunk future…

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“This is just the beginning,” Hunteman said. The advanced hackers who built Stuxnet “did all the hard work,” and now the pathways and methods they developed are going to filter out to the much larger group of less talented coders. Copycats will follow.

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As Oscar Wilde said: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

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Coming soon: liquid oxygen breathing suits

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Remember that scene from The Abyss, well it’s coming soon to a reality near you.

Here’s The Independent, with more details:

Arnold Lande, a…

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Acasa look to print new homes in the developed world

Acasa have released this video showing their plans to use 3D printing technology to print out new homes for the “over one and a half billion people worldwide [who] reside in substandard housing”…

Acasa look to print new homes in the developed world

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