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Submission + - Visible Spectrum Invisibility Cloaking (newscientist.com)

dm42 writes: "New Scientist is reporting that scientists in the U.S. have created the first true invisibility cloak.

From the Article: "The world's first true invisibility cloak — a device able to hide an object in the visible spectrum — has been created by physicists in the US. ... Their breakthrough comes just a year after US and British physicists created an invisibility cloak that worked in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. At that time, a visible light cloak was thought to be years away because of the much shorter wavelengths produced in the visible spectrum.""

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Submission + - The Technology behind the search for Jim Gray (wired.com)

krow writes: "Wired has published an article on the technology behind the search for Jim Gray. It is a good set of highlights of his career and the people he worked with during it, and how they applied technology to solve the problem of trying to find him. Greasemonkey scripts, private jets, Ocean going robots, etc were used. Its an amazing read on what can be done with "human" search technology."

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