Encounter #62: Horny for Horn

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. Anime