It wasn't long before Durkee had a chance to sample the Linux service he had purchased.

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Along with the chance to sample more than 90 beers from microbreweries as far afield as New Zealand and Estonia, the festival offers lectures on home brewing and pairing beer with food.

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Kickstarter and Indiegogo are both crowdfunding platforms, where users are able to share their ideas and donate funding to those they like. uTest is a crowdsourced software testing platform, giving developers a chance to sample their products on users.

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The precincts are selected by random chance, like a lottery, and every precinct in the state has an equal chance to be in the sample.

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In particular, this sensitivity makes the new chips better at searching for strands of DNA. At the moment, such searches require the number of DNA molecules in a sample to be multiplied using a trick called the polymerase chain reaction before there is a decent chance of detecting the target.

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All that we're waiting for now is the chance to test the much-lauded battery-life and do a full run-down with a review sample -- expect that pretty soon.

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When Garret and Sample lost their ability to stand up to the very people they hired, USC simply never stood a chance.

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