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"I can't—"
"Sit down," Kael commanded. "This is going to hurt."
"It's real," the woman gasped. "I stole it from a dead courier in the Undercity. Please. I can feel it... rewriting me. I can't sleep. I can't dream. It keeps showing me ads for soap in my nightmares."
"Where did you get this?" His voice dropped to a whisper.
And then, silence. The hum of the neural rig died down. The red warning lights turned green.
Kael exhaled, slumping back against his workbench. He looked at the screen. The code had done its job, but it had left a residue—a signature in the system.
"Didn’t break it," she said, stumbling toward the counter. "It broke me. I need... I need you to run the key."
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Kael cursed. Platinum Dreams was high-grade corporate military tech disguised as consumer entertainment. It was a trap. Once you jacked in, the DRM locked onto your neural pathways. It monitored your thoughts, regulated your dopamine, and turned you into a passive consumer drone. You couldn't take it off, and you couldn't think a rebellious thought without it frying your synapses.
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Principal Investigator, Professor of Chemistry
Panče Naumov leads the Smart Materials Lab and the Center for Smart Engineering Materials at NYUAD. His group is internationally recognized for pioneering crystal adaptronics and advancing adaptive molecular solids, with applications in sensing, robotics, optics, and energy systems.
Meet the Team"I can't—"
"Sit down," Kael commanded. "This is going to hurt."
"It's real," the woman gasped. "I stole it from a dead courier in the Undercity. Please. I can feel it... rewriting me. I can't sleep. I can't dream. It keeps showing me ads for soap in my nightmares."
"Where did you get this?" His voice dropped to a whisper.
And then, silence. The hum of the neural rig died down. The red warning lights turned green.
Kael exhaled, slumping back against his workbench. He looked at the screen. The code had done its job, but it had left a residue—a signature in the system.
"Didn’t break it," she said, stumbling toward the counter. "It broke me. I need... I need you to run the key."
From a technical and legal standpoint, here’s a summary of relevant information:
Kael cursed. Platinum Dreams was high-grade corporate military tech disguised as consumer entertainment. It was a trap. Once you jacked in, the DRM locked onto your neural pathways. It monitored your thoughts, regulated your dopamine, and turned you into a passive consumer drone. You couldn't take it off, and you couldn't think a rebellious thought without it frying your synapses.
We are proud that the Smart Materials Lab is the leading team in impactful chemistry research in the United Arab Emirates, with research output that, according to the Nature Index, accounts for 40‒60% of the total chemistry publications within the country, both in fractional count and weighed fractional count. The past and current research projects in the Smart Materials Lab have been sponsored by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), Human Science Frontier Program Organization (HFSPO), and the UAE National Research Foundation (NRF), in addition to generous financial support from NYUAD and the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute. The members of the Smart Materials Lab work closely with NYUAD's Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM).