• michaelrose@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Title is irresponsible. It produces no ionizing radiation which is what the layman understands by the word radiation.

    It produces 1.75 watts per kg over the standard. There is no reason to believe this has any effect whatsoever. it’s not clear that the standard is based on anything meaningful whatsoever

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    1 year ago

    It took them three years after release to determine this? Were there no FCC-equivalent filings well before then?

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      1 year ago

      It produces zero radiation like a nuclear reactor and only a little more energy than WiFi. This energy’s only effect is to heat adjacent tissue but much less than the actual heat produced.

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        1 year ago

        They just like using the weasel word “radiation” to make boomers & older gen Xers scared.

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    1 year ago

    I’m sure Apple, who just released the iPhone 15 and was discontinuing the 12 anyway, will be devastated by this