Cypher machines, street meat shacks, and matter from energy.


Executive producer: boo-bury


Show NotesBell LabsThe Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American InnovationThe "definitive history" of Bell Labs, home of many technologies and processes that today we take for granted.


Inventions and discoveriesJust a few of the things that were invented or discovered by the scientists and engineers of Bell Labs.


Statistical process control
One-time pads
Radio astronomy
Electron diffaction
Photovoltaic cells
Microwave relays
Transistors
Point-contact transistors
Junction transistors
MOSFETs

Information theory
Gas lasers
Charge-coupled devices
Communications satellites
UNIX
C and C++ programming languages
Optical tweezers


HX-63The HX-63, a rotor machine that had even stronger encryption than the NSA's own designs, approximately equivalent to a 2000-bit binary key.


The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine - IEEE SpectrumPublished in the September 2021 issue of IEEE Spectrum.


Crypto AG - WikipediaThe company which designed the HX-63, and was at the center of the Operation Rubicon backdooring scandal.


CIA Secretly Owned Global Encryption Provider, Built Backdoors, Spied On 100+ Foreign Governments: Report

Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths | Natural History MuseumWell, properly they'd be mammoth / Asian elephant hybrids.


We've previously tried restoring the extinct bucardo, but as the article says,


The success was short-lived. The animal only survived for seven minutes, giving it the regrettable record of the being only animal to have gone extinct twice.


Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy | BNL NewsroomBrookhaven has been able to generate electron/positron pairs from photon interactions.


Photons surrounding near-light-speed gold ions interact to generate an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron.


Epic Games v. Apple: Judge reaches decisionA solidly middle-road result. Apple loses on in-app purchases, but avoids being considered a monopolist.


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