Not just to the pundits, who had variously speculated that perhaps the bloggers of the Arab Spring, or Russian human rights groups might win.

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Those fighting to free Puracal include the director of the California Innocence Project, the human-rights attorney who helped win freedom for Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and an ex-FBI agent who was one of the early champions of Amanda Knox's innocence.

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This allows the MAYA-II to play a complete game of Tic-Tac-Toe against a human opponent, and apparently nearly always win.

ENGADGET: Meet MAYA-II, the new DNA computer that can play Tic-Tac-Toe