It was the kind of place where I should have a clear shot to half a dozen cell phone towers, and five bars of call-making, web-surfing smartphone goodness.

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At the same time, only 12% of the population have a formal bank account, while almost half of them own a cell phone.

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Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.

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