Other features like updated live threads saw increased engagement; in their blog post, the company highlighted that a live thread on news regarding Hurricane Harvey had more than 50,000 concurrent users scanning for information.
We've shown you our favorite QR code designs and introduced you to a man who lives and breathes barcodes, but after digging deeper into the implications of scanning for information we've pulled together three different examples of designs that not only feature the ubiquitous pixels but completely defy the rest of the object's composition.
Instead of a printed manual to scan for information, you get a CD-ROM video of a blow-dried spokesperson slowly, repetitively explaining the features: "I don't have to run back to my office when I'm in the kitchen and hear the phone ring!" (Fortunately, an electronic written manual is on the CD).
Various scientific publications were scanned for information about the main important additives and their hazardousness and during the on-going course of the project and the intensive individual work packages they were further examined.
Alien ships can be also scanned for information.
The publications were scanned for information relevant to the analysis of universal coverage from a gender perspective, i.e. examined for their implications for women and men, boys and girls, of different social and economic groups and included publications that contained such information.
You can leave the device for a while as it scans for information.
The strategies which are, more or less, common across all the chapters include previewing a reading for its organization, skimming for main idea, scanning for specific information, making inferences, identifying the theme, reading for fluency and speed, identifying the key people and elements in a story, comparing genres of writing, and predicting story events.
Under procedures put in place by the Bush administration since the Sept. 11 attacks, airline passenger records are forwarded within minutes of a flight's departure to a Homeland Security Department offices in northern Virginia, where they are matched against terrorist watch lists and scanned for other information that might suggest a terrorist or criminal is on board.
Digg now says it will scan for descriptive information such as the story's title to see if something very similar is already in the system.
Last but not least, several kilograms of mail, mostly press releases, pile up on my desk every morning, needing to be scanned for important information.
