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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While the west coast Portland has been pushing all the right buttons on the marketing machine, east coast Portland is happily flying under the radar, attracting only the savviest of art oglers.

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The company is also pushing another measure, called read length, which is the length of DNA that the machine can read at a stretch.

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Rather than offering a self-sufficient machine with a bulky hard drive and a bolted-on web browser, Google is pushing new operating system software and hardware, in the form of its Cr-48 laptop built to live online.

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