As to the background, Apple has been gradually moving purchasing away from Samsung.

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Using motion-detection algorithms, the BriefCam software separates the background (static or non-moving objects) from the moving objects, tracking and analysing any motion within the frame.

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It blended into the background and simply let us get on with moving and sharing files more easily.

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It essentially creates a summary of all moving events and plays that back as a synopsis superimposed over the static background image.

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The two Democrats who voted against moving ahead with the gun bill Thursday said this week they would carefully review the background-checks agreement.

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Social Intelligence Corp. is essentially taking the traditional background checks that are commonly used by corporate human resource departments to look for things like criminal records and moving them online to track social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, LinkedIn, and individual blogs.

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In an honest, moving and simple memoir which shows self-knowledge without self-indulgence, Ms Laber describes her background as the daughter of a self-made Russian-Jewish entrepreneur in New York who discouraged her fascination with Russian culture.

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Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.

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