"Avatar" is a combination of live action and photo-realistic CGI and is being touted as a huge leap forward in film technology -- likened to the first movie in sound or with Technicolor.
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But Nina may represent a true leap forward in man-machine learning and artificial intelligence.
While many people are agonizing over how closely kids are tracked online, tracking of the little ones in the offline world is taking a Mickey Mouse-sized leap forward.
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Combine these two ideas and look at them against a backdrop of the developing world making a big leap forward economically and you have the recipe for a longer-term bull trend.
Even so, it's a significant leap forward for the Qatar-based satellite channel, which gained notoriety in 2001 for being the first station to broadcast video statements made by Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al-Qaida.
YouTube and the Internet have been doing this already, but music on Facebook will give the word-of-mouth phenomenon a huge leap forward.
And then came the E-Bugster, quite a leap forward for VW. The company has showed off this dashing concept car several times, first in Detroit early this year and then a few months later at the Beijing Auto Show.
PITTSBURGH-Identity science takes a giant leap forward with a new discipline in biometrics.
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Part laptop, part tablet, the XO-4 Touch will represent a huge leap forward in what OLPC can offer.
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Ubisoft's long-running Ghost Recon series is also making a leap forward in time this year.
The U.S. federal government is about to take a not-so-small step forward in its giant leap to help tourists get to outer space.
However, it was the iPad mini which was the main course, the only product that was really new - if you count becoming smaller as a real leap forward.
The parliament's rapporteur on the proposed directive, German centre-right MEP Elisabeth Jeggle, said it would be a "quantum leap forward" in animal protection.
MIPS' designs, like those from rival ARM Holdings, are stripped-down and compact enough to power handheld devices without the need for a leap forward in processor manufacturing.
But other than those few classroom tools, the Classmate hardly feels like a leap forward in educational hardware as much as a gray, shrunken version of any typical Intel-powered laptop.
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