The original Star Wars film released in 1977 stunned the Hollywood establishment for its brash reliance on special effects, many of which had to be invented by Industrial Light and Magic, the company Lucas started in 1975 to make the film.

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Zuckerberg might counter by saying that his point is that there will have to be new kinds of services invented (by the people in that room) to make this level of sharing possible.

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The medicine, invented by Isis Pharmaceuticals, will be marketed by Genzyme, the rare-disease specialty unit of Sanofi, the French drug giant.

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How can you be writing something original if your main character was invented by another writer?

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Narcissism, of course, wasn't invented by the Internet and it would be absurd to establish a causal connection between self-love and mass murder.

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The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.

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Full game rules have subsequently been invented by fans, but at the time the film was made the only rule seemed to be: let the wookiee win or endure his sulking.

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