After a series of recorded phone calls and text messages, Wei was arrested as he attempted to board a flight bound for China at JFK International Airport in New York on Feb. 3 on charges of bribing a federal official.

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Other sophisticated computing systems have tackled the difficult problems of understanding voice and text Recorded Future, Palantir and Digital Reasoning among them, but with their backing by defense and intelligence agencies one suspects some of their most advanced accomplishments remains out of sight while Watson demonstrated its skills during several performances on a popular TV program.

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Through February, nearly 185, 000 conversations 22, 447 via text were recorded, according to Planned Parenthood.

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The new photography could only hint at where the original lines of text once were, but it recorded the 18th Century inscription describing the re-erection of the cross before it, too, is weathered beyond recognition.

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