Technology has a pretty impressive track record of sorting out even the biggest of problems.

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In the end, the election is likely to get decided the way elections usually are in Connecticut: on the candidates' personal ties and their record in sorting out local things like parks and hospitals.

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They're handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009.

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Simultaneously, the company would be able to build a payment record of its clients, sorting the unreliable from the rest.

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