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download

[doun-lohd] / ˈdaʊnˌloʊd /


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"Any message asking a job seeker to download an app to participate in an interview is not legitimate."

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Chinese companies have released powerful open-weight models in recent weeks which let users download the numerical parameters that determine their behavior, prompting administration officials to consider restricting access to those tools due to security concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

It also unveiled a tool that allows users to download maps featuring their own custom names for the lake.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

The telescope will be generating about 1.3 terabytes of data a day, "which means you basically can't download the data to anybody's laptop," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

To do this, you must select “Declare This Book” before you download its clue.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The regulator said that while the company had followed all the correct procedures it had now "obtained the flight data recording downloads as well as other additional requirements" for further analysis.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Digital downloads accounted for nearly 82 percent of game sales on the PS4 and PS5 at the start of 2026, Sony said in late July.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The FT’s article reports that the Chinese government discussed restricting the transfer of important data abroad and limiting the downloads of models by foreign users.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

In May, the number of downloads was about 59,729.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

The officers were pursuing a Decker who was signing up for Bangers, the challenge for online feeds that has had a heartbreaking amount of daily hits and downloads the past four months.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Liu, who grew up reading National Geographic and watching Animal Planet, said she got into bird-watching after she downloaded Merlin Bird ID, a birding app.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

"I told them I'd downloaded it, I tried to stop, but I'd obviously gone too far," he said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Janet Garrison, a dirt-bike-riding grandmother who taught information technology at the local community college, downloaded an app used by hunters to map the plots being acquired.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

It lacks a resident navigation system but you can download apps—someone before me had downloaded YouTube, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

She downloaded her pictures from the Nashville trip to her new computer and sorted through them.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Hundreds of thousands responded by downloading the app; by Monday, MapQuest had climbed to No. 1 among navigation apps in Apple’s U.S.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Holographic, or handwritten, wills are legal in about half of the states in the U.S, including Texas, but it’s not worth writing a will on the cheap or downloading one from the internet.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Cloud gaming allows players to stream and play games online from a remote server using a phone, tablet or controller, rather than downloading and running it on a PC or console at home.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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