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Submission + - Able to see Ultraviolet Light after Cataract Surge (komar.org) 2

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xmas2003
xmas2003 writes: "I recently had Cataract Surgery with a Crystalens implant. With my cloudy yellowing (UV-filtering) natural lens removed, I see the world in a new light (more on that in a moment) as everything is brighter and colors are more vivid ... plus in focus. As a typical /. reader, I've been myopic since childhood, so it's wonderful not to have to wear glasses/contacts for distance.

One interesting oddity is that I can now see Ultraviolet light — it seems that there are a few people who have photoreceptors sensitive below 400nm into the UV spectrum. I've done some testing with a Black Light and UV filter to confirm this but would love to do more conclusive testing such as using a Monochromator — anyone in the Boulder, Colorado area have access to one? And any suggestions from /. readers on how I can further explore this phenomena?

So while "I can't see dead people", I guess I have a "superpower" ... although I'm not sure a middle-aged suburbanite Dad should don purple tights and cape to become a crime-fighter! ;-)"
Open Source

Submission + - Stealing My Free Code! (wordpress.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I recently found out that the company I used to work for is removing all the open source licenses (GPL and MIT) from my work and distributing it as proprietary software and taking all the credit despite the fact that they contributed nothing to it. They are even renaming it something really silly. What should I do?
Technology

Engineers Create Tiny Wires WIth Old Technique 27

Posted by timothy from the race-to-the-bottom dept.
Gamp writes with this interesting snippet: "As microprocessors have shrunk, the wiring between them hasn't always kept up. But engineers at the University of Illinois are changing that with a decades-old metalworking technique. It's called electrodeposition. It's basically the same process used in electroplating, but instead of depositing metal on a surface, as when trying to make a gold-plated piece of jewelry, the metal is deposited in a wire. 'People weren't thinking about how to fabricate a wire in three dimensional space,' said Min-Feng Yu, a professor of mechanical science and engineering."
Communications

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China 389

Posted by timothy from the can-feel-it-from-here dept.
Laxori666 writes "Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons farther than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much farther than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal."

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