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The interface is entirely text and music-based -- musicians, if you can call them that, scan an instrument name on the page before sliding over to the notes, which can be played back at different pitches by moving the reader vertically along the line.
ENGADGET: Gocen optical music recognition can read a printed score, play notes in real-time (hands-on video)
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With the suitably mysterious name of "Project 1640, " the new instrument is the first of its kind that's able to directly spot planets orbiting distant suns -- as opposed to existing systems that use indirect detection methods to determine the orbit of exoplanets.
ENGADGET: Project 1640 offers new way to search for planets beyond our solar system
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Unless they come from wealthy families, they have to win lots of competitions, quickly make a name and hope that someone will lend them a great instrument.
ECONOMIST: Violin-making
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It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.
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