Clearly, for apps developers there is an interest in developing for a machine that is likely to have such a wide market.

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That just ups the importance of America pushing, driving, the innovation machine to keep developing more, new solutions that keep us ahead of competitors.

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Google has suggested it could sell auto makers the mapping and machine-vision technology it's developing for its self-driving cars, or offer that technology for free as part of a package of other Google products and services.

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Rather than selling his algorithm-development skills to Google which would get huge leverage from his ability, Spanos decided to start a company that would use machine learning to automate the process of developing algorithms like the one that saved that financial institutions so much money.

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Even while British code breakers were cracking the Enigma machine and altering the course of the war, Americans were developing one of the most secure, efficient forms of encryption, which was also one of the simplest.

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In addition to pursuing sales of the Pixo in the developing world through 90 distributors, Dickinson sees plenty of opportunity for the machine in food safety and research labs in the U.S. Academic researchers must often wait to get time on a lab's PCR machine.

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