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Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 3 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Whats scarey here is the amount if energy stored in smart phones. Pagers hold a fraction of the energy and the application here to the smart phone is the same.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I read in a NYT headline that they were pagers with explosives added in.

Here's the article I saw but didn't read.

[–] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Upvoted for the honesty

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