For example, Gorman reports, if a user wants to send an email to a contact, Assistant will prompt him to find out if the user wants to send a message to a personal or work email address.

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Digital personal assistant Seer Inc. recently used the ErliBird service to find bugs and promote its app among early adopters, says Joe Laws, the New York-based company's chief technology officer.

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Sweeney and her research assistant set up a table at the conference where participants could find out whether they could easily be identified.

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Mr. BOB McFARLAND (Assistant Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation): If you can find alternative routes, of course if you can car pool, if you're a normal user of this route and you can telecommute, that would be greatly appreciated.

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Mr. JACK GOLDSMITH (Former Assistant Attorney General): The options are to just continue to detain them, or to find a way to send them back to their countries, or to go to Congress and get some kind of different trial procedure set up to try them.

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