As you might now predict, there was no girl, no car, and after I walked in and quizzed the attendants about her story, it became embarrassingly clear that there never had been.

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According to Lawson, iKNowU technology main advantage over London-based SwiftKey, its main competitor and market leader, is that as you type, it can predict phrases and long strings of words, instead of just word per word.

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As others have noted, you can closely predict the outcome of all the GOP primaries so far by the percentage of voters who are social (and religious) conservatives.

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Trying to predict this race is very difficult - you might as well close your eyes and stick a pin on any one of Melandri, Capirossi, Rossi, Hayden or Pedrosa.

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"As we improve health services, and in particular as we move towards a model of a health care where you can predict and prevent diseases developing, there should be significant financial savings, " Milburn said.

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Once LED lighting systems are networked, you can do a lot of things with them such as detect motion, predict maintenance or figure out how many people are in a room.

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You can safely predict that computers in 2008 -- at the same price as today's -- will run at least 20 times faster.

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This is why, when trying to predict a trend or go against an existing trend, you want to have as many indicators in your favor as possible.

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You must grasp the relationships between participants as well as relevant government and nonprofit bodies in order to predict how those relationships might change.

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