He works only on pressed wood lids because he can drill into them and secure various items such as license plates, military medals and computer keyboards.

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And it says BT failed to license a system used to let computer servers prioritise data - an IBM invention now owned by the search firm.

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Both license plate detection and facial recognition are computer vision tricks that already work.

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