Physicists at Heriot-Watt University developed a technique which uses lasers to scan almost any object.
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Sophisticated machines to scan them are slow, underused and not in place at all U.S. airports.
Harvard faculty are understandably (and predictably) in an uproar about the decision to scan the emails.
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Wrote software to scan ripped music, match it up with songs in the store.
They'll have to scan enormous databases in milliseconds, textual databases as well as structural databases.
But no device is yet certified by governments to scan standard-size cargo pallets and large items.
Another option is to download a mobile security app to scan new software and links.
Intelligent software systems are already able to scan and identify individuals from video images.
Consumers can use the app to scan items and determine whether they were traded or created illegally.
If you%uFFFDre anything like me, you%uFFFDve learned to scan through the channels with the best of them.
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Dubbed MuSIC, the new technology includes natural language processing to scan Twitter and Facebook for customer complaints.
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This app allows users to access bar codes and QR codes to scan for payment or admission.
They can use scanning tools -- such as the ISS Internet Scanner -- to scan for it.
Its machine is due in early 2011 and will be the first to scan a single DNA molecule.
Belly provides an iPad in stores for merchants for customers to scan their loyalty card or Belly app.
Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.
It will primarily be used to scan objects such as vehicles - but is unable to detect human skin.
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VirtualU provides scanners to retailers that allow consumers to scan their bodies and try on clothes in digital storefronts.
The key legal question is whether the courts will allow Google to continue to scan copyrighted material without permission.
When shopping in-store, consumers can use their smart phone to scan an aisle.
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One nice extra is that HP bundles a small transparency adapter that you can use to scan 35mm slides.
Nor are the books Google has already chosen to scan necessarily a representative sample of literature across the ages.
Tengo got up to scan the spines of the volumes in the bookcase.
Job seekers can alternatively choose to scan their network to see if anyone they know can offer a referral.
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Participating passengers are asked to scan their passport photo page and have a print taken of their index finger.
However, as the story goes, a neuroscientist performing these studies happened to scan his own brain seeing the same patterns.
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You can go to the Reclaim Privacy site and grab the Java tool you need to scan your settings.
When advanced radar and drone coverage is not available, warfighters typically rely on their own vision to scan their surroundings.
He is happy with the result but also keen to scan our footage to find any way to improve his technique.
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