According to its website, Wavii claims that the basic idea behind its service is to summarise everything that users care about into a customised news feed on the lines of a Facebook wall.

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At its most basic, his idea is that much of what physics has observed is not actually physical, but a creation of the mind.

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It is unclear whether the bank, which counts more than 55 million U.S. households as customers, will stick with its initial idea for a basic flat-fee checking account that doesn't offer a way to avoid paying a charge.

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The basic idea is that Apple has taken the multi-touch trackpad from its MacBook laptops, made it a lot bigger, and turned it into a standalone Bluetooth accessory for Macs.

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In the rising market after 1982, though, the idea that the fundamental purpose of a publicly owned business is to make money for its shareholders became a basic tenet of capitalist faith.

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