The book effort suffered a setback this week when a federal judge in New York rejected a deal between Google and publishers that would have blessed the scanning of out-of-print books whose copyright holders are unknown.
"Many of us are objecting because we have been working together for years on the mass scanning of out-of-print books - and have worked to get books online for far longer than Google - and Google's 'settlement' could hurt our efforts, " wrote Brewster Khale of the Internet Archive in a blog post earlier this week.
The fossil is placed in a plastic container for scanning, which helps filter out many of the X-rays to obtain clearer images.
Warning letters to three more online gene-scanning firms are due to go out soon, New York says.
An astute manager is forever scanning the horizon for ways to eke out a critical advantage.
This means the same scanning system can be used to find out more about the brains of the sickest and smallest newborn babies, he says.
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Such neurochemical work, though preliminary, may tie in with scanning studies conducted to try to find out which parts of the brain are involved in religious experience.
And when you take price out of the picture, can Amazon give customers the advantage of seeing, touching and then buying what they want by scanning with their mobile phone and walking out the door with it?
At its core, eSignature eliminates the burdensome process of receiving a document (a contract, non-disclosure agreement, or application, for example) in email, printing it out, signing it, scanning it back in, and returning it by email to the sender.
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Travellers have to remove jackets and coats, and take large electrical items like laptop computers out of their luggage for separate scanning.
And if it does, scanning our eyes or speaking to ATMs may move out of the realm of science fiction and into our daily lives.
But there were those of us (unathletic types mostly, pale of skin and soft of belly) who'd gaze out through the classroom windows just before noon, scanning the horizon for thunderclouds.
Systems based on machine learning filter out noise in big data or high resolution models by scanning for patterns that humans would like to find but cannot.
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Although the scanning has just begun Jonides and his team are still working out the kinks the scientists sound confident.
Starting around five years ago, Google switched from merely mapping out the Web to acting as its roving police force, scanning pages and labeling troublemaker sites as it crawled them.
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Bowes, a consultant with Dash9 security and a developer for security scanning tool NMap, says he collected the passwords to help researchers figure out how users choose passwords and make the authentication process more secure.
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"By scanning QR codes around them, tourists will be to able to find out about the place they are visiting in their own language, with the description written by a volunteer speaking that language, " he says.
But Givler says the company has never fully addressed the propriety of scanning the books in the first place, regardless of whether they let publishers opt out on the back end.
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