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Excellent Radiolab episode about this. Pretty interesting https://radiolab.org/podcast/goo-and-you
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Technology@lemmy.world•France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levelsEnglish
11·2 years agoA Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of 5.2 W/kg technically does exceed limits and device manufacturers agree to meet regulations. However, SAR values are not constant and can vary with real-world usage. Phones often operate at lower power levels, reducing actual SAR exposure.
A weak microwave, for theoretical comparison, would likely put out hundreds of Watts per kg.
People are way more likely to get heat damage from the battery than the radio waves from a cellphone
Anyone got any spare money to buy ads on reddit? I know it’s giving them money but maybe it’ll help bring more over
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Technology@lemmy.world•Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discountEnglish
3·2 years agoGotta keep them investors happy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Leaked Microsoft memo tells managers not to use budget cuts as an explainer for lack of pay rises: ‘Reinforce that every year offers unique opportunity for impact’English
32·2 years ago‘unique opportunity for impact’
Impact can’t pay my fucking debt
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World News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest, Listing RevealsEnglish
9·2 years agoFunny how he refused to separate conflicts of interest when he was president but thinks it’s a good idea now that he’s in legal trouble
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios PauseEnglish
392·2 years agoHollywood will just do what they always do. Pour billions more into lobbying the government until they pass something that will allow certain exemptions.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online.English
13·2 years agoThey want a war, and won’t stop until they get to live out their fantasy of being able to use all the guns they love so much.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"English
25·3 years agoGuess that’ll be the last time they put a game on steam
Not much, hbu?
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•If everything runs fine, do not touch
1·3 years agoGets even worse the more years of experience you have. You end up being the solo dev trying to figure out a stupidly over complicated 20 year old piece of software written by a sadist that loves WCF and using tcp sockets to send data between classes in the same project




Came here to say this exact thing. Crazy to me how people can use weird ass terms like this and not understand why people are put off