ESPN, Inc. today announces the full launch of its multi-platform, multi-language and multi-country global football brand, ESPNFC.

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Starting with short, plain language, job descriptions, not 20-page documents full of government lingo.

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Pell says that Powerset's understanding of language means his search engine can actually reward users' full-sentence queries with more relevant, meaningful results than they get from the big search engines now.

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Like we saw last time around, some of the 7-to-8 upgrade rules are a bit Byzantine -- 7 Professional users can't step down to the non-Pro Windows 8 release, for example, and it's equally verboten to change language editions or move from 32- to 64-bit code without a full-scale reinstallation.

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However, the full proposals are as yet un-costed and could face hurdles because of the high costs associated with training language teachers.

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Creating software that can write long-form narratives is very difficult, full of all sorts of interesting artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language problems.

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