The hope is that by performing the same emotion-reading trick that marketers use, the type of tasks and the characters that appear in them can be made more engaging.

ECONOMIST: Facial monitoring

Hopefully, The Dark Knight Rises inspires other Hollywood creatives to bring other super hero movies to life with the type of well-developed characters and story arc that Nolan achieved.

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The movable characters can be used time and again after the type-page is dismantled.

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Aside from a ridiculous, tear-jerking plot twist that I won't type for fear of debasing my fingertips, the other characters are just there to have their floundering spirits lifted by Patch, or to angrily stand in his way while he tries to soak the vicinity with his unbridled wonderfulness.

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"One Man" has its own loose versions of those characters transposed into 1960s England, plus a goofy harlequin type in the lead: Francis Henshall (James Corden), an easily confused young man who has created a jam by employing himself as a gofer to two separate men at the same time.

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Sanjay Sehgal thinks the average CAPTCHA, that collection of deformed characters that Web sites ask users to type out when registering for an account, is both too easy and too demanding.

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Despite the fact that we never mastered the keyboard, we were still able to frequently type emails and text messages fast enough to get ahead of the i607's ability to process individual characters, leading to a frustrating lag between what you're typing and what you see.

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