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Recent Examples of encipherPhoto: Mark Richards Code Maker: One of Spicer’s favorite artifacts is this World War II German enciphering machine, called the Enigma.—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2011 The digitized voice and key were enciphered by modulo six addition.—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2019 To protect sensitive communications traveling along public pathways, the senders enciphered—or encrypted—their words, often using machines that could replace each letter with a new letter.—Liza Mundy, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
But the Harbin skull still contains enough of its original proteins to tell a different story: A few of them matched specific proteins from Denisovan bones and teeth, as encoded in Denisovan DNA.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
This is what inequity looks like when it’s encoded in policy: a financial incentive to treat men first, and women later — if at all.
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