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[dih-vahys] / dɪˈvaɪs /




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While still early days, Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes looks at Apple’s AI updates as long-term drivers of device upgrades and services growth.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Katz wrote in an email that the extra expense of around $2,000 per device were “cost prohibitive and detrimental to public safety.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Denmark's national team doctor Morten Boesen said the device - which he called a pacemaker - "responded as it should".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Around a decade later, when Danovich went to a clinic for another IUD—a small, T-shaped birth control device that’s inserted past the cervix into the uterus—she asked the doctor for pain medication.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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