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- Show HN: VoxelCamera – 3D scanning with a mobile phone (YC Fellowship 2015) http://voxelcamera.co/ 35 comments
- RethinkDB 2.2: atomic changefeeds, parallel scans, improved runtime http://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.2-release/ 16 comments
- When you need a CT scan ask for this http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2012/03/12/computing-power-speeds-safer-ct-scans 7 comments
- Woman sues Wal-Mart over mis-scanned items and wins http://www.850koa.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104673&article=4571420 2 comments reddit.com
- Apple’s Patent Unveils the Future of In-Store Shopping with NFC Product Scanning https://www.macobserver.com/news/apples-patent-unveils-the-future-of-in-store-shopping-with-nfc-product-scanning/ 14 comments apple
- Cybercriminals are stealing Face ID scans to break into mobile banking accounts https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/cybercriminals_stealing_face_id/ 27 comments technology
- Google develops selfie scanning software ahead of porn crackdown https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/15/google-develops-selfie-scanning-block-children-porn/ 249 comments technology
- Some Smart Toys Can Collect Kids’ Iris Scans, Fingerprints, Vital Signs and More https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/smart-toys-biometric-data-collection-children/ 7 comments privacy
- How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life | Google has a zero-tolerance policy for child abuse content. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as abusers https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/technology/google-youtube-abuse-mistake.html 22 comments technology
- UK: NCSC carrying out scanning activities of any internet-accessible system that is hosted within the UK and vulnerabilities that are common or particularly important due to their high impact. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information 3 comments selfhosted
- I built a tool that scans your Shopify's landing page and optimizes the speed of all its photos (free) https://photobear.io/url_optimize 14 comments shopify
- Worldcoin Is A Creepy Cryptocurrency That Wants Your Iris Scans https://screenrant.com/worldcoin-free-crypto-scan-eyes/ 42 comments cryptocurrency
- Decades of research reveals very little difference between male and female brains - once brain size is accounted for, any differences that remained were small and rarely consistent from one study to the next, finds three decades of data from MRI scans and postmortem brain tissue studies. https://academictimes.com/decades-of-research-reveals-very-little-difference-between-male-and-female-brains/?t=au 2786 comments science
- An update on Soosee, an AR ingredient scanner made in SwiftUI that scans food labels and highlight ingredients related to allergies and other dietary constraints. Please help me improve it! https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/h82qrq/an_update_on_soosee_an_ar_ingredient_scanner_made/ 8 comments apple
- CSS Scan - The fastest and easiest way to check, copy and edit CSS https://getcssscan.com/ 15 comments css
- Winbox in the Wild: Port 8291 Scan Results https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/winbox-in-the-wild-9a2ee4946add 8 comments netsec
- [Rapoport] There is optimism that Tyreek Hill will play Sunday. The Chiefs will scan Hill’s bone to make sure it’s healed properly today. If all goes well, he should play against the Texans. Would mean Tyreek Hill convincingly beat the 6-8 week initial timetable. https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1182631357069123584?s=21 131 comments nfl
- Examining brain scans of more than 800 incarcerated men, a study found that individuals who had committed or attempted homicide had reduced gray matter when compared to those involved in other offenses. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-found 12 comments science
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. Recently, physicians have found an over 30% reduction in unnecessary CT scans for TBI evaluations in emergency rooms https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/201905/ai-brain-device-reduces-need-ct-scans-over-30-percent 2 comments science
- Tamil Nadu Is All Set To Link All MRI, CT Scan Machines Of Government Hospitals In The State - Indiatimes.com https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/tamil-nadu-is-all-set-to-link-all-mri-ct-scan-machines-of-government-hospitals-in-the-state-348181.html 2 comments india
- Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle, Including 60,000 Previously Unknown Structures https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar-guatemala-pacunam/?beta=true 4 comments worldnews
- Vulnerability Scanning / Patching for Mac and Windows https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6a4gn2/vulnerability_scanning_patching_for_mac_and/ 7 comments sysadmin
- FSF to begin accepting scanned signatures for copyright assignments from India https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-scanned-signatures-for-copyright-assignments-from-india 10 comments linux
- Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to undergo scan amid Euro 2016 fears http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/25/arsenal-alex-oxlade-chamberlain-scan-euro-2016-england 17 comments soccer
- Isro orbiter to scan India's air for pollutants http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/isro-orbiter-to-scan-indias-air-for-pollutants/articleshow/51035569.cms 6 comments india
- sonar - A Framework for Scanning and Exploiting Internal Hosts With a Webpage http://thehackerblog.com/sonar-a-framework-for-scanning-and-exploiting-internal-hosts-with-a-webpage/ 16 comments netsec
- Uk cops scan people's faces at music festivals and compare them to criminal databases http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/11/download_festival_big_brother_playground_leicestershire_police/ 138 comments technology
- Vegas arena to use facial scan technology http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/vegas-arena-to-use-facial-scan-technology/ 48 comments hockey
- Developers plan interceptor drone to hunt and crash other drones. Rapere, designed to scan the sky for nearby drones and hover overhead to drop a tangle-line into their motors, will be aimed at people with privacy concerns. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/15/drone-hunt-crash-rapere 4 comments worldnews
- "Sky Sources: Michael Carrick to have scan on groin injury" https://twitter.com/skysportsnewshq/status/532548890101579776 9 comments soccer
- MRI brain scans detect people with early Parkinson's: Oxford University researchers have developed a simple and quick MRI technique that offers promise for early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-06-12-mri-brain-scans-detect-people-early-parkinsons 4 comments science
- Lets all tighten this shit up: "... Airports could see even more disruptions because of a *loosely* organized Internet boycott of full-body scans." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101122/ap_on_re_us/us_airport_security_protest 9 comments politics
- U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 backscatter body scan images on their scanner. These are those images. http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28gizmodo%29 3 comments reddit.com
- Surprise! Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all - Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/surprise-feds-stored.html 3 comments reddit.com
- 4D Baby Scans Importance of Pregnancy Ultrasound http://www.squidoo.com/4d-baby-scans-importance-of-pregnancy-ultrasound 3 comments reddit.com
- Hayfever sufferers, know your enemy: Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of grains of pollen http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7606811/hayfever-sufferers-know-your-enemy-scanning-electron-microscope-pictures-of-grains-of-pollen.html 4 comments science
- Have a driver's license? You may soon be included in a "virtual lineup" as the FBI uses facial recognition software to scan millions of faces to search for fugitives. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/12/national/a122535d87.dtl 3 comments reddit.com
- Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the US http://mobile.itnews.com.au/article.aspx?ciid=146256&type=news 9 comments reddit.com
- How Google scans books. Cooler than you think! http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-scans-books-2009-5 15 comments technology
- Brain scans of teens with a history of aggressive bullying behavior suggest that they may actually get pleasure out of seeing someone else in pain, U.S. researchers said. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1083791/bullies-do-enjoy-seeing-people-pain-scientists-say.html 24 comments science