Apple has added a speedier processor to the iPhone 5 in the form of an A6 chip.

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One uses embedded hardware in the form of a near-field communications chip (NFC) within smartphones, which requires an NFC-enabled merchant device to handle the transaction.

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Encryptor, a cleantech start-up company based in Plano, TX, is commercializing the underlying technology in the form of a low-cost electronic chip that can be easily built into appliances.

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The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.

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In the past, people would try to make a form of non-volatile memory by connecting a static, volatile memory chip to a battery.

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Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.

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Genetic markers for the bacterium were sent to America and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed in July that the same form of Candidatus had been found in potatoes from two fields in Texas that were exhibiting zebra-chip symptoms.

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It was Cesar to the rescue when he chased out of goal to parry Miller's attempt at a chip, but the in-form Scotland striker ought to have scored after beating the offside trap.

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