On the child's whim, Eve follows different licence plates, until out of the blue she is drawn by a whim of her own, a memory from childhood of a fairy-tale picture done in coloured broken glass stuck in a whitewashed wall.

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For color images, each pixel contains 24 bits of information, meaning that, uncompressed, even this very grainy picture would take up an entire megabyte of computer memory.

FORBES: Technology briefing

The generally hopeful picture of his country outlined above is nowadays largely a memory.

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The 2013 Smart Evolution kit includes a quad-core processor, GPU and memory for faster processing and multi-tasking, the updated Smart Hub and the latest picture display software.

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