We would do the work to create a data analysis engine, a way of monitoring devices, or an operational intelligence system and we would support some planned activity.

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Sporting built-in pressure sensors, an LCD display, and what we're assuming is a powerful sleep analysis engine, the pillow seems to do little more than count the number of times your head moves around at night, displaying the resulting data when you wake up in the morning.

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From a technology coverage point of view, as opposed to politics coverage, Yahoo could bring this type of data analysis and prediction engine to other content verticals.

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Especially difficult to find are folks who can do diesel-engine combustion analysis and electromechanical-controls engineering.

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However, it does appear, from an analysis by Ginny Marvin at Search Engine Land, that advertisers will have somewhat less control over campaigns.

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Additionally, the TV's picture engine employs multi-frame analysis to help create missing resolution, and Sony's Super Bit Mapping technology incorporates 14 bit up-scaling, processing and pixel mapping to smooth gradation and improve the quality of low-tone pictures.

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The Splice SQL Engine also scales to handle business intelligence and analysis, and works turnkey with tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau.

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The results are then handed from the cloud to the car, where the in-vehicle intent engine from QNX Software Systems performs the remainder of the speech analysis to determine how to act.

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