It is easy to dismiss when the scan will yield pretty (and often reassuring) pictures now.

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Amazon's scan and match technology gives customers a fast and easy way to get all of their music from their computers to the cloud.

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It was not easy but he was able to use cutting-edge technologies to scan huge amounts of data as well as parse natural language queries.

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Amazon announced significant updates to Cloud Player, including scan and match technology which provides customers a fast and easy way to get all of their music from their computers to the cloud.

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So far, Eventbrite has made great strides, making it easy to promote events through social networking, sell tickets online and even scan tickets on-site with their iPhone and Android application.

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It is easy to come across Afghans who claim that they were wrongly denied foreign visas or jobs after a biometric scan flagged up their presence on some watchlist.

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We are confident that users will deeply appreciate the ability to print, scan, copy, fax and access Internet wirelessly, all through a single device that is incredibly easy to set up and use.

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