Despite being the higher seed, the selection committee placed the Rebels in the heart of Cal's alumni base in technology-rich Silicon Valley.

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In a few years over half of the nation's 108 million homes will have digital recording technology that will let them zap past commercials effortlessly or choose from a vast selection of commercial-free shows.

FORBES: ZAP!

Astronomers are uncertain if this represents a genuine rarity of systems like our own, or a simple self-selection problem in which our current technology only has the sensitivity to pick up the weird systems.

BBC: Star 'eats' a planet

The technology uses a system dubbed smart serendipity, which is a combination of artificial intelligence and random selection.

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