The force had said it would monitor applications once the pre-assessment tool went live and would close the window once required levels of interest had been met.

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Our development team cleverly designed the typeahead tool to pre-load our most popular content the moment the cursor hits the search field.

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For the surgical team at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, however, the tech's come in handy as a budget-priced, pre-operative planning tool.

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So when mortgage pre-qualification became a sales tool for mortgage reps, there was no uniform process for determining and issuing these coveted golden tickets.

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Instead of automatically blocking videos, we give uploaders the choice to dispute the claim (in the case of Fair Use, for example), use our AudioSwap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music, or to replace the video with a new version with no sound.

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The application costs nothing and works with around 30 games thus far (pre-loaded in the beta as "profiles") -- NVIDIA sees the software not as a tool for direct monetization, but as a means to grow the accessibility of PC gaming.

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