This could theoretically be done to trick journalists into running with stories that momentum has changed.

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The trick will be incorporating this innovation into the classroom, while expanding useful, hands-on learning and technology to as many people as possible.

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In other cases the same trick can be used to inject malware into browsers and so on.

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Right now, points are hard to convert and can only be purchased in certain chunks, a plan which was no doubt intended to trick unwitting customers into spending more when it was first rolled out.

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They have pulled off a cool trick that is critical to pushing past long-perceived limits to how much computing power can be packed into a microchip.

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All this is especially troubling, because financial firms will be keen to get into businesses from which they were previously excluded and quickly, because an accounting trick known as pooling of interest, which flatters the profits of the merged entity, will be scrapped at the end of next year.

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