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One of our Walmarts has anti-theft wheels (lemmy.world)
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None of the others in town have these, thought it was unusual enough to share

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[–] zigmus64 12 points 10 months ago

I’m not an expert in electricity and magnetism by any stretch of the imagination, but the way that I understand it is with any electrical current, there is an induced magnetic field, and vice versa. So the little parasites the article is referring to are the magnetic fields induced by the current to play the audio in the speaker. That magnetic field is the signal that triggers the antitheft device.