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The researchers also found that a relatively inexpensive handheld X-ray fluorescence scanner could readily detect lead based ink in a burned scroll.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence scanner, Packard-Grams found that some of those documents contain ink with lead and/or copper.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He uses a 3D scanner to assess his patients' teeth, and can see the wear over time.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
Shoppers can pass those labels under a special scanner in the middle of the store.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Participants then did an exercise designing a store of their choice using ChatGPT, while fMRI scanners recorded their brain activity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Plus, Flock moves to calm a backlash over its license-plate scanners and Instagram gets a new wordmark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
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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