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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Business

Apple’s Internal Secrecy Protocol Is Ridiculous

2:20AM Adam Frucci | Apple is known for being secretive to the extreme, but did you know some of their employees look like they’re dressed up for Dungeons & Dragons LARPing while at work? More »
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Science

Scientists Nearing Creation of Sound Cloak, Breaking Laws of Physics

1:15AM Dan Nosowitz | While some work toward an invisibility cloak, University of Illinois professor Nicholas Fang is taking steps to create a similar material, only for sound, that could, for example, make ships invisible to SONAR. To successfully do this, of course, requires we break the laws of physics. But, you know, whatever. More »
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Science

Scientists Say Their Mirror Based Invisibility Cloaks Actually Work

11:40AM Adrian Covert | Researchers from Cornell and UC Berkeley say they’ve both developed invisibility cloaks using bump-shaped mirrors that can hide objects across optical wavelengths. Oddly enough, their designs are nearly identical. More »
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Science

The Anti-Invisibility Cloak Discovered, NOOOOOOOOOOO!

1:30AM Mark Wilson | Why God, why? Just as Man was on the cusp of a real-life invisibility cloak—otherwise known as the gateway to the secrets of international government and the girl’s locker room—some stupid-head Chinese scientists have already learned to thwart it. The theoretical “anti-cloak” would be a piece of material with identical optical bending properties to the original cloak. When the anti-cloak comes into contact with the invisibility cloak, it would bend light in such a way that the cloak becomes partially visible again. More »
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