So will industry legend Gordon Bell, who co-wrote a book entitled Total Recall about a coming world in which connectivity, cameras, and processing record your life.

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AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.

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By contrast, the move to web sales has already saved Oracle tens of millions of dollars in sales and processing time, contributing to its record revenues and margins in recent quarters.

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This, Dr Levoy explains, is mainly down to the processing power of devices, such as camera-equipped smartphones, growing faster than the capacity of sensors which record light data.

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