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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