Users try to accumulate the highest score by predicting the scores of Premier League games.
Republicans sought to raise expectations impossibly high, by predicting that he would get a 15% post-convention bounce in the polls.
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Kurzweil has been right before, notably by predicting that exponential rate of innovation would allow for the sequencing of the human genome.
The computer system helps rescuers track where someone may have fallen overboard by predicting their movements based on the wind, tide and currents.
But few other than Stephen Hawking wish to stick their necks out by predicting how long it will take (let alone lay money on it).
Since 2000 the model has well captured the steady-to- cooling trend shown in temperature data, while all IPCC GCMs have failed the prognosis by predicting steady warming.
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Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.
Jelly Bean's smarter keyword feature makes text messaging faster by predicting the next word in a sentence, and improved speech-to-text technology and voice technology continues to work even if a data connection is interrupted.
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To help spot factory or commercial goods sellers, which Etsy calls "resellers, " it uses a software program called SCRAM, which can identify problem sellers by predicting the rate and sequence by which they set up their shops.
Dean Kamen, an entrepreneur from New Hampshire who invented the first insulin pump, caused a media sensation in 2002 by predicting that the Segway would have an impact on society similar to that of the personal computer.
In our system the winning party is the party that does better than anticipated, or, to put it another way, the party that causes the most embarrassment to commentators who insist on covering political campaigns by predicting results that everyone's going to know on election night anyway.
The premise is that the most money is made with the lowest risk by successfully predicting change before the crowd.
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The theme of exhaustion is one shared by many predicting a stumble with the major averages at or near record levels.
How is that helped by him predicting publicly that Speaker Boehner will cave on the tax cuts for the top 2 percent?
Buoyed by polls predicting at least 70 seats for Fine Gael in the 166-seat Dail, Enda Kenny spent Thursday in counties Donegal and Sligo, before returning to his home in Castlebar, Mayo.
Skilling magically found another penny, penny per share overnight after Wall Street had surprised them by actually accurately predicting what Enron was going to report.
In January I was rebuked by some readers for predicting that the GOP would lose, and for saying it deserved to lose, too.
The World Tourism Organization is predicting that by 2020, not only will China be the world's top tourist destination, but also the fourth largest source of tourists for the rest of the world (after Germany, Japan and the U.S.).
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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Some reports were predicting private equity valuations would by hit as much as 20%.
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Capital Economics is predicting that GDP will fall by 2.5% in 2009, the biggest annual decline in the past 60 years.
Ukraine is predicting its economy will shrink by 10.0% in 2010.
Number crunchers at the Congressional Budget Office are predicting that number will rise by as much as a full percentage point in the coming year.
Jones isn't panicked, predicting break-even results by the end of 2001.
Therefore, not only do these speculators need the underlying to move in the right direction and within a certain time frame, but also by more than other option players are predicting.
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In his Marr interview, Mr Cameron insisted it was "too early to say" whether the government would miss its key target for public sector debt to be falling by 2015, as some experts are predicting.
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But Calzaghe is not predicting DeGale to be hit by similar problems, saying: "I was quite impressed with him, he looked pretty good, " added the Welshman, who has won all 45 of his fights, 32 by knock-out.
Indeed, in the region where this columnist sits, few pundits, not least The Economist's, were predicting a week ago that by Friday an election would be called in Thailand and a state of emergency declared in the Philippines.
"We've got just short of 500 people now signed up to go, which is actually more people than have been up to space in the history of space travel, and we hope to put those up in our first year of operation, " he says, predicting the first commercial flight by "about next Christmas, " although he acknowledges that there have been many delays.
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