But analysts and investors who have been tracking the field predict the company would release a product with many different functions and that the device would work closely with the iPhone.
Of course, the Irish predict the end of the world every time it rains and their roots in mysticism, shape shifting, and consulting oracles make the Mayans seem like babes in the woods.
When we stare into our crystal balls and try to predict the future, often as not we predict the possible troubling implications of this or that technology.
Just as no one can predict the stock market, no one can really predict the economy, even if the Dow is doing great.
The Crusaders predict that the Racecourse curtain-raiser will be a 10, 500 sell-out for the visit of Leeds.
For example, the latest forecasts from the commission predict that the Spanish economy will shrink by 1.4% in 2013, but many independent forecasters expect much worse.
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Now, two researchers think that it has another benefit: the ability to predict the future.
By combining many different kinds of signals it is possible to create models that can understand the present and predict the future.
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To understand the present and predict the future, we must look to the past, specifically previous attempts to replace magnetic stripe credit cards.
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We want to control the uncontrollable, predict the unpredictable.
It was when cabinet ministers began to say that she could not go on that I became confident enough of the trend to predict the end of what had been an exciting period in British politics.
Mark Williams was among the players predicting that the new fitting would help the players to predict the true path of the balls - and expecting a glut of big breaks to follow in the quarter-finals.
While the Company cannot predict the outcome of this investigation with certainty, based on the information currently available to it, the Company believes that the outcome of the investigation will not have a material adverse effect on its financial condition or results of operations.
Organizations that allow clients to see their silos, said Trefler, Organizations that have to transfer a customer in the middle of a call to finish a service interaction, or organizations which have to guess what the customer wants instead of having the system predict it based on the customer history and previous calls.
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Forecasts for the weekend predict snowfall at least for the higher areas, and many are clinging to the hope that, as in previous years when the snows have failed to fall in early December, January has often been a bumper month.
After that, the directors predict more than two million people will come to the gallery every year, restoring it as one of Europe's most important museums.
Could the anomaly stem from a bug in the software used to predict the probes' trajectories?
Unfortunately, the only person with the right answer is the one that can predict the future with pinpoint accuracy.
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But the best way to predict the future is to follow the money.
To paraphrase Alan Kay, the easiest way to predict the future of work is to invent new organizational models.
In this case, the purpose is to predict the fate of pollutants.
By analysing the scans, the scientists found that the nucleus accumbens was "lighting up" and depending on the level of activity, the researchers could predict whether the participant was likely to buy a song.
Facial detection technology is making it feasible to do real-time measurement and analysis of ads in the physical world and predict the products you will want to buy, based on who you are or what you look like.
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The 25% of the vote the polls predict for them would be close to a record for the party if it held up on election day.
For the next, the pollsters predict he will get just 5-6%, behind even Arlette Arguiller, the amusingly perennial Trotskyite candidate.
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But while analysts scrutinize the polls, and pundits predict the results, let us consider the presidential palate.
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Among other criticisms of the screening assessment, the original model used to predict the presence of D5 in the environment was wrong.
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Only in this case, that man is Michael Ruppert, who also looks at the trends of the past few decades to predict the future.
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Two days after her victory, Andrew Kohut, of the Pew Research Center, published an Op-Ed in the Times about the failure of polls to predict the outcome.
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