It can predict whether a person will stop for just five seconds, 35 seconds, or more than a minute, with an accuracy of about 80%.

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After a few seconds it dies down and I ask Munar whether he expects to get a ticket today.

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But what they cannot say is whether this will happen in a sensible orderly way, or whether it will only happen five seconds before midnight, when markets are melting down.

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The Klip app checks the phone every four seconds to determine whether it is on a WiFi, 3G or 4G network and adjusts the videos based on that connection.

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They make the call about whether a truck should be waved through the lane or diverted for secondary inspection, often in a matter of seconds and based on nothing more than a quick look and their practised intuition.

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Your son or daughter will look around and within seconds make a snap-judgment about whether a campus is right for them.

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Its algorithms can sort through more than 10 billion variables in seconds to decide whether, or how much, a client should spend to lock up an ad keyword.

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The recorders capture information about how fast you were going and whether you slammed on the brakes in the seconds before and after a crash.

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By tracing the trajectory of the Palestinian missile within the first few seconds of its flight, the system could calculate whether or not it was heading for a populated area and therefore whether the firing of a defensive interceptor missile was necessary.

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