The gory details: The average number of tax returns each telecommunication company has to file per year is a staggering 47, 921, compared to 7, 501 returns for a general business.

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It comes strapped with a 3.5-inch touchscreen on the back, 80 to 800 ISO range, 1.5 0.6fps capture rate, and a mind-boggling 480MB max file size per image.

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Global's slightly larger version, about the size of a fist, called the iSwipe Mini, secures entranceways and can store 10, 000 iris identities, each compressed into a tiny 2-kilobyte file, and can scan 15 people per minute.

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Building on a decade of ORNL and DDN optimizations for the Lustre file system, the DDN system will be configured with Lustre performance of over one terabyte per second to meet the demands of Titan's 299, 008 CPU cores.

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The Espresso Book Machine will turn a PDF file into a 300-page book in four minutes flat, at a cost of one penny per page including a full-color cover.

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