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Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago

No shit

New tech could protect you from QR code scams. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You scan the thing, and it is a 80MB pdf that you have to zoom in and scroll around... Nop!

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, that's what you mean... yeah, there are humans behind, but potato potato, swap one brain for another... anyway it is a killing machine that can get you anywhere in the planet.

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

*corps

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My dear stranger, those already exist, and have been used in war to terminate key individuals.

We are living the dream.

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Exactly! Flying, they are flying everywheeeaaahhhh!

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Surveillance is the "nice" version of it.

Online algorithms could help save the planet with just a few small tweaks. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No

MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (21 children)

We all know where this is gonna end...

Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough in hyper-spectral imaging technology in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Excellent, new ways of keeping us controlled

Memolution in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Actually, the word "meme" was introduced as a reference to the word "gene". A "meme" would be a similar concept but in a cultural (rather than biological) realm.

it is "a unit of cultural transmission"—the cultural equivalent of a gene

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/meme-word-origins-history

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