Authors were furious to discover a corporation was scanning their books without asking them first, and publishers sued, fearful that Google would profit from works to which they had rights.
Forget about the hyperparents who want to implant math genes in their unborn children, the "Gattaca" corporations that scan people's DNA to assign them to castes, the employers or suitors who hack into your genome to find out what kind of worker or spouse you'd make.
FTIR analysis was carried out on the aqueous solution of synthesized AuNPs using FTIR Spectrophotometer (Model: IRAffinity-1, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan) in the scanning range of 650 4000 cm−1.
Kinosita (Keyence corporation, Osaka, Japan) for the scanning electron microscopy, and Ms. N. Ichinomiya-Sato and Kengo Koba for technical assistance.
This summer a little-known intelligence agency began seeking ideas from academic social scientists and corporations for ways to automatically scan the Internet in 21 Latin American countries for "big data," according to a research proposal being circulated by the agency.
A laser scanning cytometer (Compucyte Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA) was used to measure fluorescence intensity of 2000 individual peripheral blood leukocytes and histograms were generated for analysis.
The primary study endpoint is the change in LBM as determined by whole body DXA-scan (iDXA, Lunar Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) according to standard procedures.
Superoxide production was measured in triplicate by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy (Bruker BioSpin e-scan R, Bruker Corporation, Rheinstetten, Germany) using the spin probe 1-Hydroxy-3-carboxy 2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidine (CPH; Noxygen, Elzach, Germany) [ 19].
Neutrophils were assessed automatically using a motorized inverse microscope (IX81, Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) with a motorized scanning stage (IM120, Märzhäuser, Wetzlar, Germany); 400 nm and 490 nm light-emitting diodes (LED) (PrecisExcite, CoolLED, Andover, UK), and a charge-coupled device grey-scale camera (DX4, Kappa, Gleichen, Germany).
Skin elasticity was quantified with a Triplesense TR-3 sensor scan device (Schott Moritex Corporation, Saitama, Japan).
Corporations also use the technology to scan their internal systems to detect potential hackers from nations where they have no employees or customers.
