The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.

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Its software allows video creators to embed instructions for the player to show several kinds of advertising in videos, including pre-roll video ads, text ticker ads that run along the bottom of the image, and small clips displayed in the corner of a video.

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If you copy a piece of text, then pre-screen it and the software tells you you would be found out, you rewrite it a bit plugging in a few synonyms here and there and then it is ok and no longer considered fraud and plagiarism?

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Investigators believe Freudenberg engaged in an extensive text conversation with a colleague about dinner plans while he was conducting mandatory pre-flight checks of his helicopter.

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We allow any individual to come to our platform and create an app for themselves through a ridiculously easy 5-step process and distribute the app directly by leveraging pre-existing social relationships with clients, friends and fans (Facebook, Twitter, Email, Text, QR Codes).

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Using a Bluetooth connection, it syncs with phones and alerts users when they receive text messages, reads them out loud and allows users to respond with a selection of standard pre-written messages without taking their hands off the wheel.

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