Help is at hand from a most unlikely source: the United Nations, where a significant step towards a simple, global system for patent filing was made on June 2nd.

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"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.

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While the source is not clear, someone developed a simple way to identify incompetent news reporters.

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The app features a simple drag and drop interface making it easy to connect any music source to the speaker of your choice.

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This will allow us to transition from simple to more complex tasks that may require accessing a variety of applications and information source in a coordinated workflow.

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In order to fully exploit the sound potential of the HDVD 800 with any audio source, a rotary gain switch at the rear of the unit provides simple adaptation of the amplifier output to the audio input voltage.

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Input sentences of the source language were transformed directly into output sentences of the target language, using a simple form of parsing.

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