The specimen is then rotated on a mechanised platform as it is exposed to the X-ray beam, in order to build up a three-dimensional picture.

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The company's X.commerce platform aims to provide all of the fundamental technologies needed for end-to-end commerce, delivered in a way that's simple enough for the mom-and-pop shops to manage.

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The Microsoft-owned messaging platform has started testing what amounts to a video voicemail feature on OS X, Android and iOS, something that had already been hinted at in its updated TOS. Why those operating systems at first, without any word about Windows or Windows Phone, we're unsure.

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To further its ad network ambitions Samsung Ventures has invested heavily in Open X, a platform for serving ads across devices including TV and mobile.

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Long before become the Secretary of Energy, Chu pioneered an equally radical research platform at Stanford University called Bio-X, which brings novel interdisciplinary strategies to bear on important challenges in bioscience.

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To reach true OS agnosticism 6Wunderkinder, however, relied on HTML5 -- which makes porting an app easy, but comes with its own drawbacks, including lackluster performance. (Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.) With the revamp, Wunderlist 2, the task management platform now has truly native apps for Android, iOS, OS X and Windows to compliment its web site.

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