Sentences with phrase «than devices such»

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Again, this is all stuff you would find on devices such as Apple's MacBooks and iPad Pros or Microsoft's Surface lineup more than Chromebooks, which tend to be lower - end machines.

When that growing app ecosystem is added to the simplicity of a much smoother interface than that found on many smart TVs, plus the relatively low price, dedicated media - streaming devices such as Roku's lineup look to be making a strong case for continued relevance among otherwise converged electronics.

Well over half of the CEOs (67 %) said the problems caused by such devices require more than an average amount of management attention.

The ban also means that, for the foreseeable future, travelers booked on more than 125 affected flights a day to the U.S. and U.K. will have to put devices such as tablets, e-readers, cameras, laptops, portable DVD players, and video games in checked baggage.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

In the West, we know the big Android makers as Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, but for most of the world, the manufacturers making and selling Android devices are Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE, which are more interested in moving sheer volumes of units than reaping fat margins on them.

MLB.com's website, meanwhile, is being accessed more from mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, than from desktop PCs and laptops.

The study found that emerging economies such as Brazil, South Africa and Russia are front - runners in the adoption of mobile devices (more than 70 %, on average) to access the Internet.

The company's operational and business support systems offers services such as cataloguing, service provisioning and device management, and has been installed at more than 80 organizations in 40 countries.

Android Oreo (Go edition) comes with a slew of slimmed - down proprietary Google apps — such as Google Go, Google Assistant Go, Google Maps Go, and Gmail Go — which collectively take up 50 % less space than they did with Android Nougat, effectively doubling the available storage on the device.

More immediate, if Wal - Mart puts its marketing power behind the Vudu service, it could give a lift to sales of Internet - ready televisions and disc players, which generally cost a few hundred dollars more than devices without such capabilities.

J&J generates billions of dollars in annual sales from selling consumer goods, such as Band - Aid products, and medical devices used in surgeries, but it's the company's pharmaceuticals business that determines whether the company's results are better or worse than anticipated.

Sound conditioners such as this Sleep Easy device produce natural white noise from a small interior fan rather than relying on digital speakers to get the job done.

When researchers reviewed more than 500 infant deaths, it was found that 17 of these deaths occurred while the infant was in a device such as a child safety seat.»

Ossmann specialises in software - defined radio (SDR), an emerging field in which wireless devices are created in software rather than constructed from traditional hardware such as modulators and oscillators.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

Engineers wanted blue and true green because with those colors, along with the red they already had, they could build fabulous things, such as a a white - light - emitting device as much as 12 times more efficient and 12 times longer - lasting than an ordinary lightbulb.

CENTRIFUGE A device that rotates its contents — in this case, astronauts in training — to subject them to forces stronger than Earth's gravity, such as those experienced during a rocket launch.

And because photonic chips shuttle photons instead of electrons, mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile devices.

Funding efficiency Nevertheless, another $ 100 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (better known as the stimulus) was made available on March 2, to be awarded via ARPA — E to the best proposals for new grid - scale storage devices, better power converters and more efficient air conditioners, such as the ones being developed by the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that rely on sound waves rather than mechanical pistons to drive compressors.

The prototype autonomous device allows users to control their heating based on the price they want to pay rather than setting it by temperature alone, which existing smart thermostats such as Nest, do.

Our studies would require a range of technologies, such as acoustic echo sounders, a magnetometer, subbottom acoustic profilers, a ground - penetrating radar, devices to recover sediment cores, an underwater television camera and a set of GPS receivers to enable study teams to track their position with a resolution of less than a meter.

A little larger than a quarter and about the same thickness, the simple, low - cost device analyzes key biomarkers to help a person decide quickly if any adjustments, such as drinking more water or replenishing electrolytes, need to be made or if something is medically awry.

A nanomachine is a tiny device of less than a micron (one millionth of a meter, or about four one - hundred - thousandths of an inch) in size that scientists hope will soon be able to carry out a variety of medical and research functions, such as the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs, more efficiently and quickly than is possible today.

When the researchers attached the sensor to 10 people's necks and asked them to say simple commands such as «go» and «jump,» the device recorded the sounds more accurately than a commercial microphone when there's ambient noise.

The problem lies in the extracellular fluid such devices would get their fuel from in the body — the levels of the oxygen there are roughly 1,000 times less than the available glucose.

Such devices could be read quickly and contain far more information than Braille directions, but go completely unnoticed by the sighted, says Makino.

IBM projects that it could, within the next decade, enable a handheld device such as an mp3 player to store about 500,000 songs or 3,500 movies — 100 times more than is possible today — without increasing the device's cost or decreasing battery life.

But some companies, such as Columbus, Ohio — based Redemtech, have found that coping with the more than three billion electronic devices purchased each year by U.S. companies and consumers can be good business.

This latest experimental evidence could elevate the material's use as a test subject for next - gen applications, such as a new breed of electronic devices that manipulate its spin property to carry and store data more efficiently than present - day devices.

Such devices could conceivably carry data more fluidly, with lesser power demands and heat buildup than is typical for present - day electronic devices.

Insecure «internet of things» devices have already contributed to major cyber-disasters, such as the October 2016 cyberattack on internet routing company Dyn that took down more than 80 popular websites and stalled internet traffic across the U.S..

At the more moderate pace of 5.5 kilometers per hour, a 29 - kilogram load can generate about 4 watts, more than enough to operate a number of small portable devices at once, such as a cell phone, handheld GPS, PDA, and even night vision goggles, Rome and colleagues report 9 September in Science.

Such an (entirely theoretical) device would somehow allow an object to change mass and inertia at will, and potentially to travel faster than light by «altering the spacetime metric» around itself.

In fact, more consumers express intent to purchase such devices than actually have them today.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

(Engineering studies have not yet been done for such a device, and it might require somewhat more fuel than stated here.)

However, with all of the technical gadgets that rock the first world, we are more often than not hunched over our information devices reading awesome articles such as this.

In fact, using such a device regularly can trigger far worse skin related issues than the cellulite.

How could such a precise and superb input device be put down as being worse than one which detects body movements using a camera.

As in Iron Man 2, there's a sense that Dawn of Justice (as that subtitle implies) is a bridging device, a platform to launch a bigger cinematic universe, and as such it might work better when viewed as part of a 10 - film collection than it does as a standalone.

The extortion subplot involving Ansel's manager and Lance Reddick's shadowy menace (playing a mysterious figure in the way only he can) may be a necessary evil to motivate Ansel toward taking on the family as clients, but in practice it is such a half - baked flimsy concept that it never evolves beyond plot device status, feeling more like manipulation than motivation.

Supporting males characters such as two student athletes played by Emory Cohen (Place Beyond the Pines) and newcomer Anthony Kelley - or an enforcer played by The Wire's Dominick Lombardozzi - feel even more like devices than characters, though given their small roles in the story, that's a bit more understandable.

She longs for an assessment that relies on more than just written problems, that could capture the more diverse skills visible in her classroom and valued in the workplace, such as artistic talent, computer savvy, and the know - how to diagnose and fix problems with mechanical devices.

Calculators can also be difficult to handle, but with talking calculators such as Calc - U-Vue, students can double - check what they've entered and reiterate correct answers verbally, helping them focus on solving the problem rather than working the device.

Our own research indicates that teenagers are far more likely to listen to something that they have downloaded on to a handheld device such as their iPhone or iPod than they are from the internet or on a computer, so schools who enable their students to use their handhelds to both create their own content and download content via the school's own VLE are in our opinion on to a sure thing.

In keeping with this theme, ASCD's conference includes more than 50 technology sessions spanning topics from empowering special needs students through technology and arts integration to raising student achievement by using mobile devices, such as the iPod Touch, to create conversations and learning communities.

No more than 15 percent of technology funds may be used to purchase technology infrastructure such as: devices, equipment, software applications, platforms, digital instructional resources and / or other one - time IT purchases.

Project Tomorrow's Speak Up survey, 1 which polled more than 300,000 students, parents, and administrators about 21st - century skills and technology use in school, found that students are increasingly discontented with rules that limit their access to technology at school and prohibit them from using the tools and devices they use outside school, such as cell phones, e-mail, and text messaging.

People generally perceive it as more of mobile technology than a learning strategy — due to technical concerns such as device compatibility, responsive design framework, screen size and resolution.