More than 60 breast screening appointments were cancelled after thieves stole the power lead for the scanning machine.

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At one of the checkpoints, a scanning machine resembling a car wash passes over a lorry delivering building materials.

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Earlier this year Granite set up an Internet site and bought a cheque-scanning machine to cut processing costs and help with marketing.

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Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.

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The Vscan is not science fiction but a hand-held ultrasound machine with a scanning wand attached, which has been approved for use in Europe and North America.

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While the models were first cast and the paint was first mixed in New Jersey, the actual balloon was manufactured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the help of a 3-D scanning program and a special machine that seals urethane panels.

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Using an instrument similar to the scanning bar-code guns at supermarket checkouts, this machine analyses black plastics with a laser.

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As the convoy growled down Highway One, the national ring road that encircles the whole country, the turret machine-gunner rotated left and right, scanning the roadside.

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The story was also called Gene Machine and predicted all sorts of glorious things for the future of gene scanning.

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Systems based on machine learning filter out noise in big data or high resolution models by scanning for patterns that humans would like to find but cannot.

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