These types of apps are sometimes compared to personal assistants, someone working in the background to keep your schedule in check and make sure you have the information needed to coast through a busy day.

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But Lam believes that the Samsung platform is more power efficient when it uses proprietary software like eye detection, which is constantly working in the background.

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For example, a floating windows user could monitor a stock ticker in a background window while working on a report in the foreground.

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We have soft power, the policies of attraction that Professor Nye has so elegantly crystallized: long-term, positive, appealing aspects of American culture and society that aren't necessarily calibrated to promote a particular policy or initiative, but are always working for us in the background.

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We have people working in our youth development structure who have been teachers and coaches in their background.

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In the background Samsung is working with a team of senior designers like e x-BMW chief designer Chris Bangle to improve the usability and appearance of products.

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Obama said Monday that lawmakers in Congress from both parties were working together on plans that would expand background checks to all gun purchases and criminalize "straw purchases" in which legal gun owners buy weapons for people prohibited from doing so.

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The people who are working in the ambulance station, the doctors and nurses in hospital, they are from different background, from different ethnicity and they are treating everybody.

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All three outcomes were more common in women and those from a working-class background.

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With an MBA and background in computer science, she was one of few women working in the high-tech space.

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Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the Democratic architect of the bipartisan proposal to expand background checks, said he was working on ways to tweak his plan in order to bring opponents on board.

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Instead, I am in the "precariat", which means I am likely to come from a working class background.

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