For the last few years, Twitter has mainly been a tool for tech insiders and news junkies, just as CNN initially appealed primarily to a hard-core, but limited audience of news obsessives until the start of the Gulf War, when everyone tuned in for news on the war as it broke.

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Another STD tech tool out there is an app called STD Triage.

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Another STD tech tool helps people have difficult conversations with past lovers.

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Some exceptionally tech-savvy young men, the report found, won the hearts of women simply by impressing them with the use of their hi-tech tool, labelled natching by the Future Laboratory.

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Perhaps the most controversial high-tech surveillance tool discussed in 2001 was the FBI's "Magic Lantern" project.

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With the powerful high-tech communications tool known as a smiley face.

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For most people, especially the early adopters with thousands of followers who are tech savvy, the free service is a great tool.

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New York has devoted millions of dollars in tax incentives to attract high-tech jobs through the research college center and it is a critical tool for New York to compete globally in the high-technology 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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