Timing is a big part of the project, said UDSA undersecretary Edward Avalos.

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Privacy was always a big concern for Siri's developers, says Edward Wrenbeck, the lead developer of the original Siri iPhone app, which was eventually acquired by Apple.

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Over the years, a suitably big brace of royals, writers and statesmen dined here (Edward without Mrs Simpson, Arthur Conan Doyle, W B Yeats).

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Rather, they'll be put right back to work in the hopes that they "take a bite out of movie piracy in the Big Apple, " according to the Motion Picture Association's Edward Neurbronner -- that is, when they're not busy putting on little, um, dog-and-pony shows at local events.

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