HDDs provide a crucial role in modern computers, enterprise storage equipment, including cloud storage, and many consumer electronic devices.

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With the aid of technology, Dr. Topol says, medical progress may well begin to resemble modern computers' own astonishing surge in processing power and data storage.

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Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.

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To meet the need for low weight and high power output, the designers opted for the same lithium ion technology as used in the batteries of most modern smartphones and laptop computers, where the demands are rather similar, but on a much smaller scale.

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Then there is Sugata Mitra, recent winner of the 2013 TED Prize, whose serious doubting of modern education drove him to provide computers to kids struggling in slums to let them teach themselves.

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Third, it increased the use of computers, necessitated by the data collection and analysis involved in modern management.

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