For instance, by using the phone's camera and face-detecting software, the bot can follow a listener around the room and position its "ears, " or speakers, for optimal sound.
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Market makers can, for instance, settle trades using the underlying shares rather than cash.
It is selling insurance direct to customers, for instance, rather than using the typical approach of having sales ladies going door to door or setting up costly sales networks.
Typically, it takes her about four to seven trials to nail a new flavor, settling on the right percentage of cacao in the chocolate she's using, for instance, and adding more or less of each ingredient.
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One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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For instance, IBM is using Java as the technical heart of its San Francisco Project, a set of frameworks for building business applications, such as integrated financial systems, by combining pre-built components such as accounts payable and receivable modules.
The new SDK can use H.264 hardware encoding to supplement the relatively slow ARM chips that will be running Linux in an embedded manner -- like the Panasonic TV, for instance, which was developed using an early version of SkypeKit.
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One proposal, for instance, involves using large, awkward magnetic fields to cool the electrons down.
Unilever, for instance, is using agent-based modeling software to analyze the purchasing and social patterns of 150, 000 customers who use Swiss online grocer LeShop.ch.
For instance, he said, it can pull out people using the same bank account, have similar flat numbers or it could spot the person who spells their name different at every institution they use in a bid to hide the stages of a sophisticated scam.
Using a lens with too long a focal length, for instance, makes the image appear flat.
In the baby-steps department, the Republicans have discussed using the fiscal savings of one bill to help pay for breast-cancer screenings, for instance.
The 3D cube button on the front panel, for instance brought up -- you guessed it -- a cube that you can spin using the touchscreen.
He was a late bloomer, becoming Boston's starter at age 31, and rather than employ more traditional goaltending techniques (the butterfly style, for instance), Thomas relied on his athleticism and aggressiveness to make saves, using whatever body part happened to be handy to stop the puck.
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