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Terrible, horrible things can be done to this millimeters-thick patch of shimmering material crafted by chemists at NanoSonic in Blacksburg, Virginia. Twist it, stretch it double, fry it to 200°C, douse it with jet fuel-the stuff survives. After the torment, it snaps like rubber back to its original shape, all the while conducting electricity…
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Of interest: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently ruled today in the Grokster case (MGM v. Grokster, where the big media copyright holders sued the creators of a p2p filesharing application for copyright violation). The appeals court held that filesharing applications such as Grokster, Morpheus and Gnutella, like Betamaxes and VCRs two decades…