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[dih-vahys] / dɪˈvaɪs /




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The Covid-era, work-from-home device boom cooled, and flash prices bottomed out at 5 cents a gigabyte.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Any director pointing their camera at Holmes — before or after she was convicted of fraud for her bogus Theranos blood-testing device — won’t capture the whole truth.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The odd-looking waste management system looks a bit like a futuristic torture device, with a crenelated funnel and hose to suck up urine and a small, vacuum-sealed hole for defecating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

They carried out a controlled explosion on the device, which was later taken away for a forensic examination.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

However, Puthoff’s device is one in a long line of “free energy” machines—none of which, in the past, have withstood scientific scrutiny.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

“Consumers like the option, but only 11% buy a touch laptop and they rarely pay extra for it,” says Francisco Jeronimo, IDC’s vice president of worldwide devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

It relied hugely on advertising that was brokered through third-party services such as Apple, and wanted to change that by broadening beyond social media to its own hardware and devices.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The improved analysis brought their measurements into close agreement with results from established detector technologies while also revealing radiation events that older devices could not detect.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The pair notices that others can’t make calls, either; a restaurant loses its checkout interface; and everyone is snaking cords around to keep devices charged for the moment when service returns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

In which codes, invisible ink, hidden messages, and other devices are put to good use.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen


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