The result, when combined with new techniques of genetic analysis, has been a revolution in the understanding of humanity's past.

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The tool uses five distinct bugs in iOS, all of which might be appropriated and combined with other techniques for malicious ends.

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The company has previously used the technology, combined with other techniques, in a similar review of single person council tax discounts in Derbyshire.

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But, short on time, he combined all three techniques by reprinting his own etchings and building them up in 3D using wire to add depth.

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This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.

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In the 1990s, they combined thin-film coating techniques with getter technology for the LHC and that paved the way for the solar panel applications we see today at the Geneva International Airport.

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At the time, the Home Office responded that DNA testing would not be used alone but would be combined with language analysis and investigative interviewing techniques.

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Technological advances in drilling techniques in the United States, combined with the rising price of natural gas in the mid 2000s, made the adoption of fracing possible.

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Then they combined their findings with earlier surveys, which used other detection techniques, to create a statistical sample of stars and the planets that orbit them, which they say is representative of the galaxy.

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