The myTouch series also features the Genius Button, a capacitive key underneath the display that sits next to the menu, home and back keys.

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Starting from a grid position of 14th, Button made steady progress up the field after a series of impressive overtaking maneuvers.

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Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.

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Formula 1 stars Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button show up in the video that is part of a slick series detailing the impressions of the drivers as they arrive at the biggest race tracks for competition.

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Both series also include a gaming mode that cuts the lag between a remote control button press and the resulting on-screen action, making these sets perfect PC or console gaming TVs.

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In the first test, Pickens was presented with a series of nouns and had to click a "yes" or "no" button to indicate whether he thought they were living or nonliving things.

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As far as audio is concerned, the X1 Carbon-series laptops were mostly designed with teleconferencing in mind (exhibit A: that dedicated mic-muting button).

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