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Remember when HN collectively lost their minds and questioned journalists integrity for suggesting that the Chinese government could have put a backdoor chip gasp the size of a grain of rice on Supermicro motherboards?
I know numerous people who are concerned about nanobots in vaccines. When I see stories like this I expect it will reinforce their concerns.
We will monitor pollution by (checks notes) dispersing a huge swarm of tiny robots, themselves made of heavy metals, that are infeasibly difficult to recover or recycle.
These devices don't even have space for an antenna (limited by physical size). The power required by the sensors is dwarfed by RF transmit. The current challenges of powering a radio device with an MPU at this size are far too great for this to be useful. Unless there is a breakthrough in radio physics, drones need to be a certain size that is much larger than this. Unless they plan to release a billion of these, swe…
Or just, you know, use a high frequency. There are tiny antennas. You can just power it via induction (like RFID) and you're set. It still couldn't transmit super far but I bet it would work.
These devices don't even have space for an antenna (limited by physical size). The power required by the sensors is dwarfed by RF transmit. The current challenges of powering a radio device with an MPU at this size are far too great for this to be useful. Unless there is a breakthrough in radio physics, drones need to be a certain size that is much larger than this. Unless they plan to release a billion of these, swe…
All you need to transmit data is one LED.
EDIT: Unless you meant for downloading after retrieval. That could work...
I don’t think nature had the same goal. As long as the local minima is good enough for survival nature would be happy
Remember when HN collectively lost their minds and questioned journalists integrity for suggesting that the Chinese government could have put a backdoor chip gasp the size of a grain of rice on Supermicro motherboards?
Everyone agrees that they could; the question is whether they did.
Those Bloomberg reporters showing pictures of lol capacitors did them no favors.
We know the difference between processors and capacitors around here.
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The picture in this article is actually plausible. It's not just a capacitor that is getting hyped up by ignorant reporters.
Well, maybe dystopian SciFi turns out to be not as much fiction as we had hoped ;-). Ubiquitous surveillance together with artificial intelligence are probably one of the most powerful tools for authoritarian regimes you can imagine. They already have the physical power to hurt their opponents, now they also know exactly where they need to apply this power to keep themselves at the helm and quash any resistance befor…