In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.

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Within the study, participants were asked to quickly scan a row of digits and cross out consecutive numbers that add to a pre-specified total (for example, any two numbers that total 3).

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She and her husband found out about their children's condition at a routine 12-week scan.

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Their advanced sandbox technology, Deep Discovery, is available as an out-of-band gateway device (Deep Discovery Inspector) to scan all incoming traffic and a stand alone server (Deep Discovery Analyzer) to accept suspicious executables from email gateways and other sources.

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Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.

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