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    Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Bluetooth Name
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    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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    Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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    It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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