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Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes (newatlas.com)
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[โ€“] ch00f@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not this again https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosquito-death-machine-nathan-myhrvold.html

tl;dr this idea was pitched in 2010, this article from 2017 says the demo was faked. 15 years later and the cycle repeats.

[โ€“] Deebster 3 points 1 month ago

This was mentioned in the article, although not the fact that it was faked.

I can believe that the tech has improved enough to not need faking this time around.