"Android is open and can be used by licensees and the user interface can be modified, but these modifications are not supported by Google's release, " said Jolla Chairman Antti Saarnio.

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Over five weeks, the tribunal heard allegations Prof Richardson had failed to provide good clinical care, had not properly informed Mr Belcuore about the modified medical device being used and had failed to get proper consent for its use.

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Helicopters and modified off-road vehicles are used to round up the camels.

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Similarly, NASA technologies, though designed for space applications, are often modified and transformed to go into everyday products used on Earth.

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The villa, owned, occupied and modified by several entities after Napoleon, including being used as a headquarters during German occupation in WWII, was restored before being opened as a museum.

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Used to make noodles and pastries, some soft white wheat was found to be genetically modified on a farm in Oregon.

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Roth has used modified forms of this same algorithm to design matching systems for Boston's public school system and for placing medical school graduates with residency programs.

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The teams modified the virus binaries in order to change the signature, and several of the teams used a technique called "dropping, " in which a virus is injected into an already-running application and bypasses the heuristics engine.

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They did used believe that they had purchased it, back before the company modified its code continuously, when, once and for all, Microsoft had to let bits out into the wild with the hope that they would be able to survive on their own.

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