Scanners articles

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  90 Seconds on The Verge: fast internet, faster lasers, and lasers that invade your privacy

  By David Pierce on January 18, 2013 05:10 pm + 12 comments

  Lasers, you know? It's like every time you turn around, they're beaming your priceless cultural Continue reading…

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  Mind-bending sci-fi drugs of the future passed

  By Aaron Souppouris on November 22, 2012 04:51 am + 21 comments

  Whether Homer's fictitious island of "lotus-eaters" in the Odyssey, or Sherlock Holmes' habitual Continue reading…

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  TSA switching to faster, less-invasive X-ray body scanners in larger airports

  By Justin Rubio on October 19, 2012 05:53 pm + 28 comments

  The TSA has started removing the controversial X-ray body scanners, known as backscatters, from Continue reading…

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  Ant colony living in a scanner for five years: time lapse video

  By Laura June on March 9, 2012 10:35 pm + 34 comments

  Ant colonies are amazing, beautiful, complicated things. Flatbed scanners, on the other hand, well, Continue reading…