There will be 21 destinations that you can go and explore on the map by the end of the show, and 11 to start out with.

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The end result is a map made up of 213 separate images.

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So even if humankind does not go to war over bad harvests, Paskal may be right when she contends that climate change may end up altering the global map.

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By the end of the meal Kavanaugh's map of L.A. had 12 red dots, representing the city's neighborhoods.

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It should pinpoint the positions of 1m galaxies, and has already produced a map of their local distribution (see the diagram at the end of the previous article).

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But then last November Stock had a breakthrough: A Sand Hill Road venture firm (which didn't end up investing in Zvents) asked him to map out the events being submitted on Zvents' Web site.

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The feedback I got from potential users on my front-end prototypes was invaluable in shaping and focusing our product road map.

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Part of its "Smarter Planet" initiative, one of the vignettes describes how some do-gooders used IBM software to map the rice genome, identifying what was killing crops and helping to end hunger.

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To that end, the team developed an iPad app that uses motion tracking technology to "map" a user interface onto different parts of an object.

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At the end of the process, I had a printable, or mobile-viewable, map with about a dozen locations marked as interesting, rather than a mass of undifferentiated pins on map.

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