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That’s because LLMs are far more user-friendly than a scanner or TV that requires what she called a “born-to-it comfort with tech” to operate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Their research involved 14 dogs in total who all sat very still in a brain scanner while they were shown pictures of people's faces.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Police scanner audio obtained by news outlets showed emergency responders arriving at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. for a report of chest pains; CPR was underway roughly 25 minutes later.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
NBC News reported that emergency services responded to a call for "cardiac arrest" at Graham's Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC and other outlets.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
He walks to the spot the scanner indicates and begins pummeling its surface with his drill.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Zebra Technologies, which makes bar code scanners and printers, concluded in the second quarter that it was likely to get a refund of all $73 million in past tariff payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
More police forces are adopting A.I. facial scanners; the tech is being piloted in schools, buses, and stores as well.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
"The UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Today, lasers are used throughout modern society, from supermarket barcode scanners to vision correction procedures and advanced scientific instruments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
The only thing they would actually pack carefully into boxes, at the last possible moment, were their two computers, along with monitors, hard drives, scanners, subwoofers, and printers.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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