Others, like Zite and AOL Editions, add an automated method to the process.

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BranchIt is a cloud application that replaces the desperate email blast with an automated method of discovering who else everyone in the company knows.

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This automated method requires no prior knowledge of influenza.

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The current most accurate detection method, an automated digital microscope on its own, takes ten hours to do the same job.

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And it produces a false positive fewer than three times in a million tries--compared with a hundred false positives in a million tries for an automated digital microscope on its own, the current, most accurate method.

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And for the method to be commercially successful, it would have to be automated and turned into a reliable, industrialized process.

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