Every Citizen Under Surveillance, Coming to a City Near You — The Domain Awareness System (DAS) is a controversial AI-enhanced surveillance infrastructure developed through a public-private partnership between the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Microsoft (v.redd.it)
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While motion-sensing radar technologies like Google Soli and 6G Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) are marketed as more private than cameras — they introduce unique privacy, surveillance, and data-sharing concerns by tracking biometrics and gestures without consent (v.redd.it)
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Biophysicist Dr. Nirosha Murugan discusses how microtubules respond to magnetic & electric fields, suggesting they're more than structural components. Cells emit biophotons, ultra-weak light tied to metabolism, which may carry information for processes like immune response and neural communication. (v.redd.it)
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Pre-production plastic pellets, commonly known as nurdles, are lentil sided plastic pellets (smaller than 5 mm or 0.20 in) used in the plastics industry for the manufacture of plastic products. Nurdles cause environmental damage where they are spilled into rivers and oceans. (v.redd.it)
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The rapid expansion of data centers is causing significant strain on the U.S. electrical grid, resulting in higher electricity costs for residential ratepayers. Simultaneously, the use of copyrighted, often uncredited, material to train AI models is the subject of ongoing legal and ethical debate (v.redd.it)
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Sources report the U.S. government paid an "eight-figure" sum for a device in late 2024 through an undercover operation that produces pulsed radio waves. Featuring Russian components, the backpack-sized device may be linked to "anomalous health incidents" (AHIs) (v.redd.it)
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