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		<title>A Look at the Zany Math-Based Bids Google Made While Failing to Buy Up Nortel&#8217;s Patents [Tomfoolery]</title>
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<p>				When Apple, Microsoft, Google and others started bidding on a treasure trove of Nortel wireless patents this past week, the search giant from California made a series of, well, <em>unconventional</em> bids that had observers mystified.				More&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
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		<title>Pet Tech: 8 Zany Gadgets for Your Pet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Smile at work&#8211;or the happiness detector will ding you</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Remember the <a title="Soon, billboards that know male from female -- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10266755-1.html">gender recognition system</a> we saw at the Singapore-based <a title="Top 10 phones of CommunicAsia 2009  -- Thursday, Jun 18, 2009" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10268240-1.html">CommunicAsia</a> trade show last month? Well, those zany Japanese have a more creative way of implementing a somewhat similar face recognition software. 
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Putting a new spin on the phrase "service with ...</p>
                        
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<p>Remember the <a title="Soon, billboards that know male from female -- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10266755-1.html&sref=rss" >gender recognition system</a> we saw at the Singapore-based <a title="Top 10 phones of CommunicAsia 2009  -- Thursday, Jun 18, 2009" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10268240-1.html&sref=rss" >CommunicAsia</a> trade show last month? Well, those zany Japanese have a more creative way of implementing a somewhat similar face recognition software.
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Putting a new spin on the phrase &#8220;service with &#8230;</p>

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