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Why are police scanners open to the public?
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New 3D laser scanner can capture objects over half a mile away
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Fujitsu wants to replace your scanner with an interface out of 'Minority Report'
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Samsung Galaxy S4 features Mobeam, a way to beam barcodes using pulses of infrared light
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TSA pulls the plug on 'naked' X-ray scanners after maker fails to guarantee privacy
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How scanner scammers charge small businesses a fortune for the right to email PDFs
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Google's Android malware scanner detects only 15 percent of malicious code in test (update)
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Robot book scanner perfectly captures 250 pages every minute
Researchers in Japan have built a commercial book scanner capable of blasting through 250 Continue reading…
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Google engineer builds $1,500 page-turning scanner out of sheet metal and a vacuum
For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the world’s 130 million or so Continue reading…
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MIT researchers equip real-time mapping system with Kinect sensor
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Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud
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Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes
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