It might look like magic — well, it does look like magic — but what we're seeing here is the colors of the highlighter coming to life where the light hits.
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"It's muscle memory — it's not like magic," he said.
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His vow to 'do all it takes' worked like magic.
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"In their minds, it sounds like magic money," said Ryan.
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And it's like magic, you see it on their face.
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When the game works, it really does feel like magic.
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There is no logic, but that absence feels like magic.
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You might say that sounds more like magic than technology.
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Try it out, though: It's a little bit like magic.
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There's something about a treehouse that just feels like magic.
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The first time I tried Drizly it was like magic.
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"Quantum error correction, to me, it's like magic," Almheiri said.
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Sometimes albums just drop out of the sky like magic.
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When a tool like Apple Pay works, it's like magic.
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Like magic, the two blonde bombshells are perfectly choreographed. What?
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Ms. Offolter loves propagation; it feels like magic to her.
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It comes and goes like magic, one detail after another.
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You'll love this; it's like magic, but in grid form.
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His impact on the game could be like Magic Johnson.
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To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, it should feel like magic.
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When I was a kid, this always felt like magic.
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Then I hear the kids' laughter, which is like magic.
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Kind of like Magic: The Gathering, but on the computer.
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When it works, it really does feel a bit like magic.
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Like magic — or, at the very least, like normal, balanced skin.
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During a May trip to NYC, her shoes looked like magic.
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It turns hacking into an incredible power that's almost like magic.
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There's just something about a Redwood forest that looks like magic.
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Synthesizer lines shine like magic-hour pastels through a picture window.
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Finally Automix mode has been overhauled and now works like magic.
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In other words, this shit is like magic in a bottle.
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Then just say: "Open can!" and like magic, the lid rises.
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Anyway, the Face ID works like magic and I love it.
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"Without the filibuster rule it'll happen just like magic," Trump said.
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And without the filibuster rule, it will happen just like magic.
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But a couple days in, like magic, they both got it.
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Every day, our smartphones are seeming more and more like magic wands.
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The metal tip soothes my puffy eyes, and this works like magic!
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Then, like magic, the two fall together for a blunt, bouncy finish.
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"We deliver their groceries in less than 1 hour, just like magic".
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I follow the Touch Bar's direction, and like magic I'm into laptop.
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The Playbar is so easy to set up it feels like magic.
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"It's like magic, but obviously it's not, because anybody can do it."
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Jenna & Benoit And just like magic: Benoit and his wonderful accent appear.
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"Everything they did it was just like magic for them," Keuchel said.
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Her pick from Paintbox's polish collection is "Like Magic," a holographic glitter.
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It seems like magic and getting high go pretty hand in hand.
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"Every time I go up there, it&aposs like magic," Krenos said.
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Is there a fun trick you bring out at parties, like magic?
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"But what happened in the last week was like magic," he added.
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But Intel's conservatism could harm it if something like Magic Leap takes off.
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And at some point, it will begin to feel a bit like magic.
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Those hideous black bars on vertical iPhone videos will supposedly disappear, like magic.
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It's sorta like Magic: The Gathering but there's a TV show about it.
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But searching the web just by taking a photo still felt like magic.
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I cleanse and tone and reapply the Tidal, which sinks in like magic.
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To her, the process seemed like magic, like conjuring up something from nothing.
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Others like Magic Leap have failed to live up to their impossible hype.
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" Information appears like magic on the dashboard, the walls, the seat," said Carter.
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The resulting paintings are lush, alluring, and filled with a siren-like magic.
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Later on I discovered a translation app from Baidu that felt like magic.
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At that point though, just having a therapist locked down felt like magic.
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Evans: It's like magic if you're feeling hungover from a night or whatever.
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Sometimes the things her mother did from lifelong repetition looked like magic tricks.
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It worked like magic: The story hooked viewers and made them Fox loyalists.
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And now technology is increasingly like magic, so you really can't disassemble things.
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"It still feels like magic every time those barrels start fermenting," he said.
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They feel futuristic because they're small and slick, and they work like magic sometimes.
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Like Magic Mike XXL, there's a lot of sexiness in 50 Shades of Grey.
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Companies like Magic Leap are said to be making huge headway with AR technology.
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What he did was like magic—but there were no tricks, nothing to hide.
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"I think they're like magic—you can do so much with them," she says.
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It's good because when Siri works, it still feels a little bit like magic.
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When you get the teamwork right, it's like magic because everybody has a role.
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When one of the crew talks religion, it sounds more like magic or prophecy.
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It was kind of like magic, and I wouldn't expect anything less from Florence.
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On first inspection, FFTCG seems suspiciously like Magic with the serial numbers filed off.
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She evoked advanced technology, but made it so esoteric that it seemed like magic.
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Noah puts these things in the season that are like magic, or divine intervention.
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It sounds like magic: Touch a blank surface, and a riot of color appears.
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Doctor Strange Marvel's first Doctor Strange trailer looked a bit like magic meets Inception.
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And, this is the thing that is hard to relate, it feels like magic.
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Brainwashing is like magic; these men can do it on anyone they want to.
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It is hard to believe the city was built by humans, it appears like magic.
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If that sounds like magic ... well, that's understandable, because we left a few steps out.
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Of course, they can postulate simplistic behavioural models in which carbon taxes work like magic.
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From my perspective, someone with no musical training whatsoever, it looks and sounds like magic.
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The workout distracts me from my ex (like magic!) and I feel much better afterward.
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But the technology is so mysterious, "to me it's almost like magic," AACC's Jones said.
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When I reprogrammed the button to turn on my Sonos speaker, it worked like magic.
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After someone made a request for sweatpants and underwear, they materialized like "magic," Russell said.
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But when you put that program inside of the Cube itself, it looks like magic.
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Every color seemed brighter in the room, every feeling I had was vibrating like magic.
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After restarting the console and my iPhone, I tried again, and everything worked like magic.
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You could say, "Hey Google, turn on the TV." And it would happen like magic.
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I like to think of my books as performances—like magic shows, or fashion shows.
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When we watch demos for things like Magic Leap, they seem amazing, fanciful, and fun.
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Turning eggs and oil into an emulsion — that creamy, satisfying third thing — feels like magic.
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For those who prefer trading card games like Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Crack a can of Cel-Ray, and like magic, a Jewish deli appears around you.
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It looks like Magic Leap's sales numbers are just as disappointing as their early demos.
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What can feel like magic live often loses something critical in the translation to film.
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It'll make you feel like the short days and dark evenings practically flew by — like magic.
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First, the good news: It worked like magic on Vicenty's breakouts, which were her main concern.
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Then, like magic, they leave in the morning, entrusting the baby into your well-rested arms.
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Many practitioners of magic, however you define concepts like "magic" or "power," still use sigils today.
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My colleague Ben Popper got one while writing a biohacking feature, and it sounded like magic.
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Read on to find the perfect gift that will keep on giving — it's almost like magic.
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What's really cool about this new feature is that it just seems to work like magic.
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These are just two examples of months of work that appears like magic on the screen.
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But his anger dissolved after a few hours, and then—like magic—he actually felt relieved.
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A Bethesda rep completed the setup and like magic, I was in a Red Rocket station.
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It's the immersion element, known as "presence" in industry lingo, that makes VR feel like magic.
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"He said it was like presto, like magic, and that nickname kind of stuck," Yorinks said.
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Stand near a dropped medpack or supply pack and watch your health/ammo recover like magic.
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It's like magic and rainbows and cats and unicorns in a box that spits out spectacles!
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It works like magic and your twig and berries region will smell like a tropical getaway.
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She recognizes how close she came, realizes she doesn't want to die, and quits like magic.
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When done well, comedy is like magic: entertaining without revealing too much about how it's done.
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You've probably heard that baking is a science, but sometimes, it can also seem like magic.
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Many of them resembled science but turned out to be more like magic, and untrustworthy evidence.
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READMENever having to charge a wearable that harvests power from your body heat still feels like magic.
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Hair smells like magic and rainbows and the temples are supple yet strangely firm to the touch.
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Whatever helps, they're like magic tools for actors, even though sometimes they're a pain in the ass.
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Netrunner is a physical card game, like Magic: The Gathering, but without any of the fantasy trappings.
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You just give a simple voice command — "Alexa, turn on the lights" — and it feels like magic.
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For example, Astropad Studio comes with features like Magic Gestures, per-app shortcuts, and custom pressure curves.
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Ad blockers like Magic Lasso are able to work within those limitations and still block tracking scripts.
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But when they do their work in the background, they can feel a little bit like magic.
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And then, almost like magic, Reed played him this beat, everything clicked, and "Cash Machine" was born.
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AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs are starting to release their first headsets and glasses.
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Playing a video game with your vagina is a singularly exhilarating experience—it almost feels like magic.
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Like magic spells cast by a modern-day Merlin, they sound much too good to be true.
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Like Magic, I can open packs at $2000 each until either Axe or Legion Commander show up.
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Like magic, you could stretch time out when we needed it, so that a moment felt endless.
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Morgan bankers organized the electricity industry, which, like Uber or Google, seemed to most people like magic.
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"It seemed like magic," Leshchenko told me not long ago, recalling the promise of a new regime.
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Hyper's competition also includes chat assistants, like Magic and GoButler, that offer travel booking among their broader services.
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And though he never pulled a rabbit out of my ass, Blake fucked like magic all the same.
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And now, the retailer has finally dropped the collection, which is sure to fly off shelves like magic.
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There are even SMS-based services, like Magic, Operator, GoButler, and others targeting the emerging "conversational shopping" market.
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It'll trap the odors beneath the surface so they can't be released into the air, kinda like magic.
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You don't get moves like Magic Mike (or, indeed, the XXL variety) without having some serious dancing chops.
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But it's getting close to the kind of AR advertising foreseen in things like Magic Leap's patent illustrations.
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People like Magic Leap and Project Tango at Google and Microsoft HoloLens are working on solving those problems.
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Sounds a bit like magic, but that's often the case when it comes to bleeding-edge AI research.
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As I discovered on vacation last year, getting around London feels like magic compared to New York City.
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Others use linear induction motors, or LIM, to propel rafts uphill in a way that looks like magic.
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Molecular gastronomy's contribution to summertime treats is instant ice cream, emerging, like magic, in a puff of smoke.
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Molecular gastronomy's contribution to summertime treats is instant ice cream, emerging, like magic, in a puff of smoke.
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Especially, at that time, as a kid, it seemed like magic, so that kind of drew me in.
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One-shot imitation learning seems a bit like magic, but there's a lot going on under the hood.
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With names like Magic, Alfred, and Operator, these companies seem very popular with venture capitalists but otherwise largely irrelevant.
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And like magic, Durant won his first NBA championship on Monday and took home the Finals MVP, as well.
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I order an incredible cocktail with cognac, smoked black tea, and lemon simple syrup that tastes like magic ($13).
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You can even swap between current zone and the second zone instantly, the hands snapping into place like magic.
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Cleansing milks and color-treated hair work well like magic according to Sally Hershberger Salon top colorist Aura Friedman.
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In the late 1950s, the IRS adopted IBM's mainframe computers and like magic, the number of audits required dropped.
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Remember how it felt like magic to be able to browse real web pages on the second-generation iPhone?
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When done right, experiences made with AI and edge computing feel like magic, but building them is incredibly complex.
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Almost like magic, they now have access to call logs, text messages, and in some cases even deleted data.
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Like Magic, it sees players build personalized decks filled with units that attack one another on a tabletop battlefield.
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Unclear why he pushed his bday bash until now ... but when you're ballin' like Magic, no excuse is needed.
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Theirs was a different fandom than what had existed for past N.B.A. greats like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
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It was like magic — each time I felt Ethan looking away, I would look at him and vice versa.
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Theirs was a different fandom than what had existed for past N.B.A. greats like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
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"It was like magic to people — like mixing chemicals," said his friend Steven Parkhurst, who is still in prison.
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You should set it up, connect your devices, and then forget that it's even there because everything works like magic.
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They may not be the buzziest products around anymore, but they work like magic and make us feel young again.
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"They're like Magic and Bird," said Alex Lerian, a competitor from New York who wore earplugs to help him focus.
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But when it works, when everything clicks, it feels like magic: A whole new world, emerging from whole cloth, instantaneously.
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To Boyd, art — like magic — is a ritual that transmutes a person's will in order to effect change and growth.
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Stephens also explained why the Army picked Microsoft over companies like Magic Leap, which were also bidding for the contract.
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This feeling lasted only several hours, and then like a miracle I transcended everything so totally it was like magic.
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Basketball has had other captivating stars like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and LeBron James, who all streaked to lasting fame.
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Like Magic, it uses different types of color-coded resources to dictate which cards players can bring to the table.
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The equivalent of blockbusters, which will rely on special headsets like Magic Leap's Lightwear and Microsoft's HoloLens, are in development.
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Wallace primarily has a background in marketing and has worked for companies like Magic Leap, Essential, Google, Samsung, and Blackberry.
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And then, like magic, Tarr was back, jogging to our table with a shake of her head and frazzled smile.
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Have to get a lot of great legislation approved, and without the filibuster rule, it will happen just like magic.
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Venus, the planet famous for forging bonds, is cuddling up to Neptune in woo-woo Pisces, making togetherness feel like magic.
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They're like magic little sticks that you can use on your cheeks, lips, eyes in a very efficient, very fast way.
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And like magic you can play it, a tiny ball drips onto your drawing to be batted around by the flippers.
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Like magic, this wall acts upon us by extoling enchanting operational possibilities that are not always realizable in the rational world.
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But watching a stain dry is a far better kinesthetic experience than watching paint dry *simply because* it looks like magic.
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The question is, will owning something like Magic Beauty ever become more widely accepted in mainstream culture in China and beyond?
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When money-flush companies like Magic Leap plan events, they typically put out a request for proposals from event production agencies.
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But is there any other way to talk about these works and convey Lockett's spirit except by using terms like "magic"?
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"That vibe there is like magic," says Towkio of the famed outpost, his now-signature double braids dangling across his chest.
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Like Magic Johnson, she flipped no-look passes over her shoulder, and, like Stephen Curry, she hit shots from half-court.
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What's surprising is that, even after classics like Magic: The Gathering and Monopoly have been digitized, physical sales continue to grow.
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But when he sputters to Shuri that his recovery has to be something like magic, she all but rolls her eyes.
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Most entrees are under 100 pesos (about $5), and the cinnamon-infused coffee, served steaming in ceramic mugs, tastes like magic.
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Simplifying the movements your hands have to make when you're fighting—down to stick twitches and button taps—feels like magic.
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HoloLens and other "mixed reality" tech like Magic Leap is different from augmented reality — and both are different from virtual reality.
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He could look up, and like magic, there would be an electronic sign telling him exactly when the next train would come.
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Pottermore's new Patronus quiz swept social media Thursday, allowing muggles everywhere to pretend like magic was real for a few precious minutes.
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It only seems like magic to those of us who are barely literate in our native tongues, much less two or more.
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Step back, and the jumble of materials may resolve into a figurative form, like Magic Eye pictures suddenly revealing an underlying image.
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Once, in high school, I thought things would be different, I thought that the baby fat would just come off like magic.
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He could get a lease renewed like magic, and once found a pickpocket rooms because, after all, the man's eyes were going.
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Izzo has paid Valentine the highest of compliments at Michigan State, comparing him to Spartans royalty like Magic Johnson and Draymond Green.
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Initially, interaction with the physical world could be through holograms, enabled by companies like Magic Leap, plus robots directed by virtual people.
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Even in a moment when "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is a hot seller, it is vaguely shaming to like magic.
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In 2016, Grace VanderWaal — a singing, songwriting, ukulele-strumming 12-year-old — auditioned for "America's Got Talent," and something like magic occurred.
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This may explain one of the ways other psychedelics, like magic mushrooms, have been helping in clinical trials of people with depression.
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In 10 years I expect that mixed-reality technology like Magic Leap will be used as much as, if not more than, smartphones.
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AI sounds like magic, but most of the examples that you read about today really just consist of basic math and pattern matching.
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The company beat out other competitors like Magic Leap last November, ultimately winning its bid to provide the Defense Department with the headsets.
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There were stretches of the show on public access that felt like magic, and it really feels like we're in this streak now.
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Similar to products from startups like Magic and Operator, M is able to complete tasks like booking travel, ordering food and scheduling appointments.
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He has partnered with entrepreneurs specializing in things like magic and stagecraft to craft a VR experience that goes beyond the typical headset.
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Judy exclaiming her pride in me, and our collective pride as a community, feels like magic conjured in a vacuum, against all odds.
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In times of stress and anxiety, when stiff muscles and racing thoughts keep you from sleep, a big hug can work like magic.
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One benefit of an AR headset like Magic Leap's is that it's much, much easier to navigate than a fully immersive VR headset.
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Students knead, pull, and rhythmically string the dough through their fingers until long and uniform noodles form, like magic, in between their palms.
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It's sort of like magic that you can just write down these spells on paper and get something that might completely surprise you.
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We human beings seem to be obsessed with black boxes: The highest compliment we give to technology is that it feels like magic.
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Maybe it's the unknown factor — far fewer people have heard of startups like Magic Leap and Product Hunt and know what exactly they do.
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"It seems like magic that people can close their eyes and see image—I'd do it all the time if I could," she says.
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For now, the company is showing off a handful of applications with a bulky prototype armband — and when it works, it feels like magic.
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Augmented reality headsets like Magic Leap and HoloLens tend to hog the spotlight, but phones are where most people will have their first taste.
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The energy and drive that comes at the start of a new year can feel like magic, when really, it's more like focused optimism.
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And impersonations are a bit like magic tricks: They look really cool, but more often they amount to just smoke and mirrors (and makeup).
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I know better than to call this carefully engineered bit of earbud innards "magic," but it is something like magic — fast and glitch-free.
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The first time the app says it will rain in five minutes, and then it does, it "kind of feels like magic," Grossman says.
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Another slick, stable option is Luna Display ($70)—it costs more and needs a dongle to work, but feels like magic (no cable required).
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In one moment, he appears to cut a hole through his own back and then, like magic, put his own body through the hole.
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When it comes to its fans beyond cis heterosexual men, it often feels like Magic is taking one step forward and two steps back.
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His league had rare talents like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and, beginning in 1984, a guard out of North Carolina named Michael Jordan.
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It was helpful to remember that this credit was in the offing; claiming it, and watching my tax bill effectively eliminated, felt like magic.
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"When I first started studying placebo effects, it kind of seemed like magic — for some reason, your brain mimicked a drug response," Wager says.
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In Atlanta, legends of the trap are likely to rub shoulders with the city's politicians or bookworms from the HBCU's at institutions like Magic City.
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But I remember seeing his early tech on the screen and it was like magic, like how the hell is he changing his absence dates.
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Oculus was acquired by Facebook for $2Bn and companies like Magic Leap, Matterport and Blippar raised massive rounds with close to $1Bn in aggregate funding.
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Gwent bears some similarities to other deck-building games like Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone, but it also embraces its roots from The Witcher 3.
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Microsoft beat out other leading augmented reality headset companies, like Magic Leap, which announced that it would be joining the bidding process back in September.
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To a novice like myself, they seem like magic; something that removes the need for a coat of mascara — or even eye makeup in general.
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"Skull", you type, tentatively—or "cat", or "guitar", or "horse"—and, like magic, it appears in the void, a chunky friend to keep you company.
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"We invest in forward-thinking, innovative companies like Magic Leap that are developing leading products and technologies," said Joe Tsai, Executive Vice Chairman at Alibaba.
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Like - Magic Music Video Editor Similar to the video lip-synching service Tik Tok, Like lets you create short videos that often involve lip-synching.
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The tech giant, which beat out competitors like Magic Leap, has been working closely with the Army to develop the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS).
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Women who have taken hallucinogenic drugs before, like magic mushrooms or LSD, could be more likely to experience delirium from post-birth opiates, he adds.
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He remembers looking down and seeing his pistol in his hand "like magic," before he even realized he had taken it out of his holster.
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Plus, prominent musicians like Kanye West and athletes like Magic Johnson played a large role in investing in and expanding the chain throughout its history.
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The fantasies of romance are often robust — powerful men with thighs like tree trunks, bottomless fortunes and tongues like magic (for repartee and darker deeds).
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They worked like magic when my first son turned 9 and began to get restless with the usual novelistic fare offered to kids that age.
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We've seen companies like Magic Leap, Microsoft, and Google offer similar ideas, and Facebook has promoted phone-based augmented reality with its Spark AR system.
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"When our guitarist sees that people from Colorado are in her audience and she plays John Denver music, it's like magic happening," Mr. Padgett said.
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If my doctor told me about side effects of a medicine, like headaches, stomachaches, even fever, like magic, I would start to experience those symptoms.
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Lessons are one of the most popular things people can list, whether they're focused on business and tech skills, or creative things like magic or beatboxing.
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It's also why private companies like Magic Leap have had so much venture interest regardless of valuation — a shot at owning the OS for augmented reality.
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But you often end up with all kinds of unwanted glare and reflections in your photos PhotoScan works like magic and produces a reflection-free image.
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To a consumer, e-commerce's rapid delivery seems like magic: a few clicks, and within an hour or two a package can land on your doorstep.
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Days before the speech Clinton headlined a three-day, nine-fundraiser swing through California, hob-nobbing with celebrities like Magic Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.
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On the surface, it seems like Magic should be easy to turn into a video game, but the rules that seem simple can get complicated fast.
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Like magic, the pump is authorized, your billing information in place, and all you have to do is select the grade and fill up your car.
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Linux does not feel like magic; it feels like a pain in the ass—at least until you've figured out how to use a command terminal.
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It's a great joy to feel like a fan again, because once you see how the trick is done, it's hard to view it like magic.
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"One company's website claims CBD 'works like magic' to relieve 'even the most agonizing pain' better than prescription opioid painkillers," the FTC said in a release.
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Even so, projects like Magic Leap have been massively hyped in the tech community, while Microsoft's HoloLens can support experiences that seemed impossible a few years ago.
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Disney wants you to think that these all-access MagicBands work like magic, when really the system is just a bunch of wires, antennas, databases, and algorithms.
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Orange Wine Looks Like Pee But Tastes Like Magic"What is it?" the innocent wine drinker asks as she stares at a glass of golden grape nectar.
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Some projects have collapsed entirely, like Intel's Vaunt smart glasses, while others, like Magic Leap's mixed reality specs, have simply failed to live up to the hype.
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Amazon Echo and Google Home can make you feel like you've stumbled across a genie: say what you want and, like magic, it appears on your doorstep.
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Just take them out of their handy carrying case, place each one in your ears, and the Apple Airpods will instantly connect to your device like magic.
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Howard made the claims Tuesday night on "Inside the NBA" -- telling Charles Barkley that naysayers like Magic Johnson have motivated to be a great player for years.
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There's something that seems icky or potentially unhealthy about blocking sweat, like magic, and that might be why some people have wondered whether they could cause cancer.
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Google gets really technical and nerdy about the details in a blog post, but what you really want to know is: Does it really work like magic?
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Voice- and touch-activated wands, touch sensitive technology and magnetism will be used to make things like magic wands, refilling pints, and floating candles for the pub.
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In the end, there was something like magic to it all: the storytellers tried to make Branca a baseball martyr, but he turned their intentions inside out.
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"Do you like magic?" he asks, once the lights have come up to reveal Mr. Hall in a trim black suit, looking like a department-store mannequin.
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LeBron James was Big Poison, draining 1373-pointers like a certain little point guard with an errant mouthpiece, and threading off-the-dribble passes like Magic Johnson.
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The fact that this is considered a steal at $999.99 makes the sale price of $2563 seem like magic that even the Elder Scrolls universe can't achieve.
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Within three years, the young CEOs have raised $4.22 million in funding from prominent investors like Magic Johnson, Andreessen Horowitz, Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers.
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Others like Magic Resistance NYC's moderator, known as Katherine Gojira, practice right in front of their stated enemy: casting the binding spell in front of Trump Tower.
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Then again, that was years ago, and companies like Magic Leap and even Facebook are getting the public used to the idea of headgear that can "mix" realities.
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In our review of the Bose QC35, Chris Welch said the noise cancelation "can feel like magic," and that's the league Sony is playing in with the 1000Xs.
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In each scene of her movie debut, the 11-year-old child wonder sprinkles something that looks a lot like magic and feels a lot like lasting power.
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The aprons are machine washable, so even if you make a bit of a mess in your muggle kitchen, you can get your apron clean again like magic.
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Others like Magic Johnson don't care as long as the players perform on the court or the field (he gave Yasiel Puig a party pass back in 2013).
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"This looks like magic to the general public, but turns out no matter how far fetched it sounds, it's entirely feasible from the hardware design perspective," FitzPatrick said.
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Human Controller's self-solving Rubik's Cube looks like magic, but it's actually a simple program running on a little ball of servos he's built the Rubik's Cube around.
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Snap won't be able to keep up with dedicated AR companies like Magic Leap or tech giants like Facebook and Apple if it's constantly trying to cut costs.
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Labedzki has a knack for tricking the viewer's eye to think the entire mixing occurs like magic—nary a single human hand, and rarely revealing the artist's tool.
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And like Magic, it features spells that can kill off units or boost characters' strength—although they're represented by familiar Final Fantasy summons like Ifrit, Odin and Shiva.
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You can look back into deep history when it's like, if you did anything like [magic] way back in the day, you would be burned at the stake.
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For me, who doesn't particularly like magic and has no intention of trying to do it, the show has a different appeal: It makes me a better person.
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It would be odd to say that such a play could be fun, but this production is lively and enchanting, with a devilish spark of something like magic.
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All around him, people streamed off to the parking garage or hustled to the cars of loved ones, cars that arrived like magic and painlessly collected their cargo.
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In Brazil, many payments flowed through the "sorceress," an otherwise unidentified individual who was also nicknamed the "genie" for sorting "things out like magic," according to court documents.
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Then, some years and a few generations of Kindle later, digital books began to feel less like magic and more like pixelated versions of what's already on our shelves.
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Experience is the new currency in VR and MR. Technologies like Magic Leap's will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare, and overshare experiences.
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A heavenly kingdom where you can click a button and—like magic—the shower head, butt plug, or off-brand iPhone cable of your dreams appears at your door.
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Preparation of food is one of those things we carry around with us, and when we can do it well, it almost always feels a little bit like magic.
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When it all comes together, with Sonic flying through the shining lights of Studiopolis or over the well-trod grass of Green Hill Zone, it feels almost like magic.
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Over 12 tracks, Nite weaves extreme bouts of confidence in songs like "Magic Bitch" against moments of anxiety and depression on "Tightrope," a battle she still deals with presently.
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External vibrators like magic wands are beyond popular among people who have clitorises, but they can be powerful so it's probably best to start with one that's relatively inexpensive.
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And telling your Bose headphones to order the deodorant you forgot as you walk home from the drugstore maybe, just maybe, begins to feel a tiny bit like magic.
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Of course you don't because for some reason, it's not hanging in the rafters at Staples Center next to the other greats like Magic, Shaq, Kareem and Jerry West.
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The update adds new "limitless" snaps (for snapping without time constraints), looping videos, emoji doodling, and a new Photoshop-like "magic eraser" tool that removes objects from your photos.
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I had mentioned this before, when you play other games like Magic or Hearthstone or things like that, you tend to see the pieces on the board as expendable.
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We've come a long way from this early point—and in a lot of ways, it still feels like magic, even though it's a problem we solved long ago.
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Of course, Sterling was blackballed by the NBA after his racism was captured on audiotape while explaining why he didn't want black people like Magic Johnson at his games.
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This section comes to feel less like magic than like sleight of hand, a way to fill the gap between Leo's escape from Germany and Josef's long-awaited entrance.
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That glory belonged to Converse, which had been the official shoe of the Olympic Games for over 30 years and had signed deals with major athletes like Magic Johnson.
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So here we have two different kinds of triggers: one motivated by fear of social discomfort, the other by a craving for an experience of something like magic or transcendence.
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Then you will understand just how fundamental virtual reality technology will be, and why businesses like Magic Leap have an opportunity to become some of the largest companies ever created.
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The intermediary's ability to obtain licenses and permits quickly "by sorting things out like magic" earned the middleman the nickname "sorceress" or "genie" within Walmart Brazil, the court filings said.
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The weight of studs and chainmail is so well balanced that the gowns cling and drape improbably, like magic, with not a single pucker to be found in the silk.
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When President Xi Jinping called for a "robot revolution" in China's robotics industry in 230, I'm not quite sure that something like Magic Beauty is what he had in mind.
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The best shrimp chips are from Calbee, who mass produced them first and who have wielded modern food science like magic to produce the most craveable chip I've ever had.
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No word yet on the price or launch date, but we'd like to imagine the day Urban Decay low-key drops it in stores right before our eyes — like magic.
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We consume them like magic pills, as penance for our burger and fries we eat a handful of mystical berries or drink a green juice and keep our fingers crossed.
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It might seem like magic, but Cao pointed out that they need to tailor the light beam to each material they'd like to pass it through, and that takes time.
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It almost sounds like magic, which is probably why it received a healthy dose of criticism from the physics community when the theory was first proposed nearly 100 years ago.
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I told him that he had an opportunity to make it work just like Magic Johnson did with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Magic publicly deferred to 'Cap' every chance he got.
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The Brazil that she discovered was undergoing a wholesale transformation under the decisive civilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, with a brand-new capital, Brasília, rising like magic in the country's interior.
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The resolution would make "the personal use and personal possession of Entheogenic Plants and Fungi," like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, one of the lowest priorities for police in the city.
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They have built-in magnets so you can clip them securely around your neck when not in use, and just like magic, they automatically turn the Bluetooth on when separated.
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And then, like magic, along comes Donald Trump, who happens to be weak in exactly the sort of Republican-leaning suburban districts they are hoping to peel away from the GOP.
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Then press your lips together to "activate" the kind of sparkle you'd get from a glitter bomb, and watch as mirror-like flashes of light dance across your mouth like magic.
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When he returned to Fairfield University in Connecticut, Kane spent weekends visiting New England's craft breweries — companies like Magic Hat and Long Trail, which were just start-ups at the time.
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Not only does drinking it work like magic whenever I'm stressed, sick, or tired, but I've also been known to place chilled, leftover sachets on my undereye area to reduce swelling.
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Patients currently test their blood sugar using a prick test, but new technology could offer a noninvasive means of tracking changes to benefit patients without dogs like Magic at their side.
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And then, like magic, the front pouch folds in and out like origami, thanks to discreet magnets, so you can stash coins and receipts on the fly without adding extra bulk.
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Simply place your phone on the pad and watch it start charging — it may seem like magic, but it's a technology called Qi, and it's also compatible with most Android phones.
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Then, like magic, another appears, another message of strength and support that makes me slide my phone across the desk and toss the rest of the stale sandwich in the trash.
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It was like magic — you could look up a slew of numbers and letters and all of a sudden find books that told the history of witchcraft or women or sex.
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The gadgets that exist now, like Magic Leap or HoloLens, may be getting closer to the dream of effortless AR, but so far they've been proven imperfect for the average human.
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Dave: My perception of Cialis and Viagra had been that they were kind of like magic pills: If worst comes to worst, you just pop one and everything's fine and dandy.
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The whole story appeared in my head like magic: being a kid and learning to dress, putting on the underwear, struggling with buttons and buttonholes, and the payoff at the end.
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"Guys like Magic Johnson, who played a long career and he's been very, very successful in creating [a media and real estate empire] and owning teams and stuff like that," Wilson says.
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While it's not perfect, when it does work, transferring files from an iOS device to another iOS device, or from an iOS device to a Mac (and vice versa) is like magic.
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Prom.A ski trip where you all totally get lost but, like magic, find each other at the bottom of the runs at the end of the day and all had amazing adventures.
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During that time, the Brits doubled down on their way of spelling and basically scorned at the new American way of spelling (though they did drop the -K in words like 'magic').
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It feels kind of like magic when it works, but it's not nearly predictable enough right now to be a real driver of business rather than an impressive occasional delight for customers.
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The result is something like magic, less a tribute to the open road than to the feelings of danger and passion and pain and exhilaration it gives, no matter where you started.
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And the attention to subtle detail is more important, because when you have a supernatural event like magic, or when you have a combat situation or horror, they stick out much more.
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A decade ago, Apple's iPhone helped make a music-tech star out of Shazam, the app that, almost like magic, could identify a song just by hearing a few seconds of it.
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Every so often, even in a bad season, an episode that's far more good than bad will come together, like magic, but watching Saturday Night Live inherently means being very, very forgiving.
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But the brothers' four-sevenths share of an N.B.A. team's national television revenue swelled as superstars like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and LeBron James turned the league into global entertainment.
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Combat helps your units grow stronger in specific traits, like magic and specific weapons; that experience in turn helps them succeed in lessons and training at school, which further enhances their abilities.
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Credit: Team Peter Stigter Slooten was inspired by the mixed reality concepts of companies like Magic Leap and Microsoft's HoloLens and wanted to explore how a future of holographic garments might work.
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If whatever was happening in the auditorium itself was intended to be like magic — hopeful and glamorous, with seams unseen to the naked eye — then the bar was a hideous dose of reality.
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If companies ranging from giants like Microsoft and Google to newcomers like Magic Leap and Meta have their way, the next thing to leap from fiction to fact will be augmented reality (AR).
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" Even the year's successes sometimes felt underwhelming, like Magic Leap, a ludicrously well-funded AR startup whose pitch was basically "we have recruited the greatest minds in modern culture to literally rewrite reality.
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch made me feel like magic was something that could be fun, not something that was overly serious or dangerous like in The Craft (though I loved that movie too).
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Unfortunately, while dabbling in technologies which appeared like magic to them during the cleantech boom, many investors were lured back into the innovation fallacy, believing that pure technological advancement would equal value creation.
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Like many sprawling RPGs, The Witcher *3 *featured a minigame—in this case, a card game called Gwent that felt like a stripped-down version of collectible card games like Magic: the Gathering.
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That's why, on Carter III's opening song, "113 Peat," when he says "Bounce right back on them bitches like Magic," he pushes "Can't Tell Me Nothing" out of the spotlight just a little.
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Israel Morales, a spokesman for a group of Puerto Rican mayors, said, "People think this privatization will be like magic, because the situation is so awful," but that rate hikes sometimes follow privatization.
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Startups with a cleaner slate like Magic Leap and giants with a better track record on privacy like Apple could have an easier time getting users to put a camera on their heads.
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Similarly, we shouldn't expect those working on drug discovery to be anything more than that — but AI has a reputation as being something like magic, in that its results are somehow fundamentally superhuman.
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While it's not unusual for people to turn to alcohol for liquid courage, a subset reach for harder drugs like MDMA, and other psychedelics, like magic mushrooms, ketamine, and LSD, for social lubrication.
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If Apple does launch AR and VR eyewear of its own, it will already have plenty of competition from tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft as well as from startups like Magic Leap.
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In no time, like magic, a nurse arrived to clean him up with a first-aid kit and a representative from the kids club arrived with a basket of toys for the kids.
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Odour Bar While we will forever be questioning why garlic and onions are the world's most stubborn scents, this stainless steel "bar of soap" has been proven by reviewers to eliminate stench like magic.
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Magic: The Gathering - Travel EditionIt's already available to play on-the-go through countless mobile apps, but half the fun of a game like Magic: The Gathering is collecting all of those wonderful cards.
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Their work is published in a PLOS One article, "Quasistatic Cavity for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer," or, how to build a room that'll charge your iPhone as soon as you walk in, like magic.
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Microsoft secured the $23 million Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) contract in November of last year, beating out other headsets like Magic Leap as well as defense sector old hands Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
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Steve Jobs, the late Apple founder, was great at this — the pitchman who could explain deeply why a new device was special; the specific engineering or design trick that made it work like magic.
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There's a lot going on — travel plans, potluck food appearing like magic in the office, everyone feeling a little more festive and social — and the daily grind can get lost in all of that.
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And use it to make investments in tech companies and in all sorts of crazy firms that they've been investing in, like Magic Leap virtual reality or a tech company or Uber or Tesla.
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The Black Hammer universe includes the main series and three mini-series, so far, that take staples of the superhero genre (like magic words that grant special abilities) and turn them on their head.
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If you've used it, Amazon's same-day delivery service can seem like magic: all the convenience of shopping online, plus the instant gratification of getting whatever you want by the end of the day.
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Suddenly, almost like magic, I could flow into the pentameters of Paradise Lost, follow sentences without hesitation as they spilled from one line into another, be swept away by the sheer cascading sound of it.
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You use your new phone to take a photo of a bunch of swirling dots on your old phone and Apple moves most of what you need from one phone to the other like magic.
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High-profile startups like Magic Leap are trying to solve AR's five big consumer challenges, but standalone smartglasses look like the fourth and final wave of consumer AR (at least until The Matrix gets here).
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If you become aware of that—it's still hard to comprehend—but it's invisibility has partly to do with the enchantment we have with advanced technology, which appears to a lot of people like magic.
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After a soulful rendition of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" from contestants Katie Kadan and Destiny Raye assigned by coach John Legend, Kadan — who Legend described as having a voice like "magic" — was deemed the winner.
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It's a technology that's existed for years, and one that many of probably use on a regular basis (bus passes, Apple Pay, etc.) but it somehow just feels like magic when applied to a card game.
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Diamond is one of a handful of plastic surgeons and cosmetic dermatologists who've made names for themselves on Instagram for their ability to work what looks like magic with nothing more than numbing cream and syringes.
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Later, they sit in a grocery store parking lot under the bright fluorescents and talk about music, and he coaxes out snippets of a song she's been working on that then, suddenly, comes together like magic.
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Facebook confirms it's building augmented reality glasses If Facebook is going to beat companies solely focused on AR like Magic Leap, and potential incumbent invaders like Apple if it so chooses, it needs to maximize efficiency.
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I'll usually do an all-nighter or work until 3 A.M. and lay down for a couple of hours and get up again and dig, but it's like magic when you're doing it as an artist.
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Source: Hoxton/Paul Bradbury Source: Hoxton/Paul Bradbury This is exactly why so many great companies — Apple, Microsoft, HTC, Google and startups like Magic Leap, Avegant and ODG — are working on trying to build this screen.
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Charging electronic devices at a distance seems a little bit like magic, but it's now on the verge of a whole new range of commercial applications, which will be rolling out over the next few years.
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An odor rub-away bar While we will forever be questioning why garlic and onions are the world's most stubborn scents, this stainless steel "bar of soap" has been proven by reviewers to eliminate stench like magic.
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It was the kind of thing that could only come from Nintendo: creative and unexpected, using clever hacks to make simple technology feel like magic, while at the same time teaching users how these things actually functioned.
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Image: GizmodoOnce upon a time in the not-too-distant past, getting an email or a weather forecast popping up on a smartphone felt like magic—but now the technological novelty of these alerts has worn off.
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Windows Hello works like magic and if developers get on board with the webcam's 3D object scanning capabilities and facial recognition and gestures, they could unlock a computing future that's as game-changing as voice command is.
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I grew up very poor, and was wildly in debt in my 20s, so sometimes it still feels like magic that there is always enough money in the checking account for groceries or whatever else we need.
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Fifty Shades of Grey may seem like a bit of a risqué inspiration for a competitive figure skating routine, but it appeared to work like magic for the French pairs team of Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres.
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CastAR was striving to build a solution with significantly less funding than other startups like Magic Leap, which has raised a mind-boggling $1.4 billion in funding and is still reportedly facing a number of production issues.
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Drugs like magic mushrooms, cannabis, and MDMA are gaining new credibility as potential treatments for psychological illness—even if it has taken the world decades to catch up to what Feilding intuited at the age of 23.
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And like magic, the podium, resembling a parade float, was wheeled into position on the field at Gillette Stadium for the Patriots to celebrate their eighth conference championship since 2001, the third in the last four years.
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"It seems the administration is using economic growth like magic beans: the cheap solution to all our problems," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that advocates fiscal restraint.
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Wrnch CEO Paul Kruszewski says that concept is especially true for the computer vision space, with war chest-toting companies like Magic Leap powering their own technologies while dramatically smaller teams are left to piecemeal their own solutions.
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What got lost amid the headlines, though, was that Epic—both with Fortnite and through companies like Magic Leap using Unreal Engine to build mixed-reality AI characters—is shaping our virtual future in subtle but surprising ways.
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These days we hear a lot about self-driving cars, but to most of us the technology still seems like magic, like someone must be using their knee or concealed hand to guide the car along the road.
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Related: Stunning Photos of a Bonsai Traveling the World This Artist is Trapping Flowers in Blocks of Ice The Art Of Levitation: 6 Photographers Who Feature Gravity-Defying Subjects Magnetic Levitation Device Makes Any Object Float Like Magic
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It felt like magic, and the freedom that came along with that feeling of knowing that you were doing something that you had a gift to do almost feels like you're a vessel for something a lot bigger.
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This stems from Tolkien, who ends The Return of the King with the age of man beginning and those who possess anything like magic powers — including ring bearers like Frodo — departing from Middle-earth and into the west.
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Arriving at the park I heard the loud rhythms of soca and witnessed Adrian "Daddy Jumbie" Young, a well-known local expert and instructor in stilt-walking, perform flowing movements on sky-high stilts that seemed like magic.
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Contactless payments are almost twice as fast as conventional cash or card purchases, and while it may feel like magic, contactless payment cards have a tiny antenna built into the plastic that lets them securely transact with readers.
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But Dark Sky still feels a little bit like magic every time it works: it's a weather app that predicts when it's going to start and stop raining, down to the minute, and it's usually pretty darn accurate.
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If you practice this with an aikido instructor, it seems like magic: you snatch the hand out of the air, wrap your fingers around the meaty part under the thumb, wedge your thumb between their knuckles, and twist.
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This month, we see the addition of some true gems, like Magic Mike and Babe, and a few historic pieces of cinema that deserve a revival — like the series of films from the 1930s featuring Black actors and directors.
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It might look like magic (and we'd believe it, coming from Rihanna, the innovator that she is), but there's a simple scientific explanation: The magnetic charge that gives the Stix the miraculous ability to stick together also attracts metal.
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And like magic, because this is exactly how regret doesn't work, the 34-year-old Russian-born journalist apologized right out of the Crisis Management 101 playbook: All that said, I do regret my phrasing and apologize for it.
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Amstutz is determined for HoloMe to change this, describing companies like Magic Leap as manufacturers of "hugely futuristic" ideas, but suggesting—perhaps unfairly in Magic Leap's case —that they have produced very little in the way of actual results.
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Out of all the compelling new black metal projects that continue to sprout like magic mushrooms from the volcanic soil, Naðra most successfully captures the island's wild, untameable essence—and as their new EP, Form, shows, they're only getting better.
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"The overwhelming sense of excitement I get when I drink a butterbeer or walk into the wand store and feel like magic is real for a second —that's when I realize I am the biggest dork in the world," he jokes.
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Like the iPhone, Apple focused on ease-of-use, offering a large screen to browse the web, watch videos and flip through pictures, all things we take for granted today but that, in 2010, felt like magic on the first iPad.
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But that doesn't mean it has been devoid of activity or even keeping quiet about what exactly it is working on, which an approach that others like Magic Leap working new tech around VR and AR have been known to take.
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For medical hallucinogens, an early — but growing — body of research suggests that drugs like magic mushrooms (psilocybin), acid (LSD), ibogaine, and ecstasy (MDMA) could be effective in controlled medical settings for all sorts of illnesses, including anxiety, nicotine addiction, and PTSD.
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The company has doubled their staff to 100 in the past year and is looking to continue growing rapidly as it strives to keep pace with companies like Magic Leap and Microsoft that are making waves in the augmented reality space.
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After: A side-swept and perfectly punk deep side-partThanks to Elyssa's slept-on, short chop, Warren sectioned her hair into a super-deep part, curved slightly to make it look just-out-of-bed unstyled — and it stayed like magic.
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Set the device to heat up the water to around 129 degrees, immerse the bagged steak in the water and, like magic, you have a steak that is perfectly medium-rare all the way through, not just in the center.
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Dirty Dancing feels like a predecessor to movies like Magic Mike, which cast cash-strapped young men, many from blue-collar backgrounds, in the position of entertaining well-off women and trying to figure out if they're supposed to like it.
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A cyberpunk card game that pits independent "runners" against authoritarian "corps," Netrunner allows for the deckbuilding fun of games like Magic: The Gathering and the Pokemon card game, but without the lottery ticket feeling of cracking booster packs for rare, necessary cards.
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While getting the product in front of professional teams is the immediate goal (and advisors like Magic Johnson and David Stern should be able to help with that), ShotTracker sees a future where "ShotTracker is to gyms what WiFi is to coffee shops".
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"She could see something that other people could not see on the visual-spatial perspective, and she explained to me how things kind of jump out at her in a way that almost seems like magic, but she sees them," Saltz said.
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Compared to competitors like Magic Leap, who are talking loudly about how their technology enables depth-of-field, what Lumus is building still sits on a single focal plane, though Grobman said that partners can modify the lenses to exhibit similar visual effects.
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The crazy thing is Avegant has been able to create this technology while having raised just under $37 million in funding, making due on far less than AR companies like Magic Leap, which has raised more than $1.4 billion from Google and Alibaba.
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He shows me mildly disturbing smartphone messages and pictures of splayed out humanoids from potential customers in Southeast Asia who have contacted him to register interest in buying sophisticated models like Magic Beauty, which Xiao says is currently mainly being exported to Europe.
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"I think that there are certainly invisible forces at play in the world that might seem like magic because modern science hasn't reached an explanation as of yet, but I wouldn't consider myself a witch, at least in the Hollywood sense," she says.
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When you're late for work and forgot to eat, being able to order up a drink and a sandwich with a tap or two and have it ready for pick up by the time you pass the store seems sort of like magic.
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Where Bailenson makes virtual reality more approachable and less like magic, as you'd expect from an academic scientist, Lanier plows into philosophy and expands the limits of what V.R. might achieve, blurring definitional lines and sometimes making it all sound truly surreal.
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I was tasked with applying good old E45 Dermatological Cream to it every night, and over time, as I religiously massaged in that white ointment with its distinct scent until it disappeared like magic, it became a rather pleasant self-care ritual.
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They are as short-lived as the forest pools they occupy, dwelling in these mysterious and beautiful worlds for a brief three or four months, and then both the pools and the shrimp vanish, fairylike, absorbed back into the forest floor like magic.
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The success of those films—as well as a new wave of superhero movies, Star Wars stories, and lore-locked games like Magic: The Gathering—proved that nerdiness was now (and had perhaps always been) a wide-scale epidemic, and a joyous one at that.
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Well, so did we, until we actually installed and used Citymapper: It makes hopping from bus to train to tram across a metropolis so straightforward that it feels like magic, and it's overflowing with good ideas, like an alert when your stop is coming up.
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Traditional card games like Magic or Netrunner feature plenty of effects that let you retrieve cards from your deck, but Hearthstone exists on the digital plane, so, in Babbling Book's case, you're literally drawing a random spell from the game's entire available card pool.
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McKenna: Lisa Marie Fernandez Genevieve Cornflower Seersucker Bikini, $395, available at Lisa Marie Fernandez; A.L.C. Henderson Pant, $2450, available at A.L.C. "After seeing Lorde win, like magic, McKenna and I both showed up at Cristal and Alisa's house at the same time," Henderson remembers.
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The little fanzine I brought to the Uptown Kinkos in Minneapolis in 1991, because no magazine or paper or monthly shill sheet would let me write for them—and like magic, here, 13 years after the fact, I am finally living my teenage dream.
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Disney is also said to be shunting some of its less important theatrical films to the service instead, like Magic Camp, which was originally slated to hit theaters this summer before getting removed from Disney's schedule entirely, and the Anna Kendrick-led Christmas film Noelle.
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Significantly, the new round of funding is led by Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant founded by Jack Ma. "We invest in forward-thinking, innovative companies like Magic Leap that are developing leading products and technologies," Alibaba executive chairman Joe Tsai said in an emailed statement.
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Now I'm in a small predicament because I'm pretty sure my girlfriend will also like Magic Mike and I have convinced her to watch it, but I really want to watch Magic Mike XXL and don't want to wait for her to catch up.
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Like Magic Leap's previous demos, this doesn't tell us anything about the tech that Magic Leap is actually using — nobody is wearing any kind of headset or other device, and we don't know how you'd capture and stream an image of the person being projected.
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In a pair of tweets on Friday evening, Trump said the number of people estimated to have died as a result of the 2017 storm in Puerto Rico went up "like magic" and that there's "no way" the death count is actually so high.
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"It still feels like magic that I'm here," Ms. Umana said in an interview, though her fellow students said it was not magic at all but her sharp legal mind, intense work ethic, leadership ability and generosity of spirit that catapulted her to the top.
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That service, a competitor to things like Magic, Operator and GoButler, could be seen as the precursor to Prompt, as it also focused on making tasks easier by allowing users to simply text to get help with things like buying products or making travel reservations, for example.
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Magic Leap recently lost a bid to Microsoft for a $480 million military contract to outfit troops with AR headsets, and as Microsoft prepares to release a second-generation HoloLens with the enterprise in full concentration, it seems like Magic Leap is going to reshuffle its deck.
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It is shot with great sensitivity, alternating between stark realism and an accompany sense of the surreal; the street lights blur like magic in one sequence, making it all the more jarring when first responders try to save a passed-out woman in a bluntly lit Sheetz.
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You'll find tasty homemade takes on the Girl Scouts' Thin Mint cookies, as well as Twinkies and Wonder Bread, each accompanied by the product's back story, right next to classics like Magic Key Lime Pie and One-Bowl Devil's Food Layer Cake With Milk Chocolate Frosting.
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Once the whole head had been curled — directing the wand away from the face and curling counterclockwise on the right side, clockwise on the left each time — the hair was brushed through a couple of times and voilà: Hollywood waves fell down my shoulders like magic.
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And while it's easy to see through to the advertisement underneath, at the end of the day, walking into a library of soaring books or zapping picture frames from across the room by waving my hands, still left me smiling in a way that was almost like magic.
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From who Ta-Nehisi Coates is voting for, to shots at John Lewis and Killer Mike's respective endorsements and missteps to reconciling the '94 crime bill and various problematic statements over the years, black support of candidates have become like Magic cards, used to defeat foes in online combat.
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"We got the guy who can make the blind see and the cripples walk in LaMelo Ball" Yeah, that's a REAL quote from LaMelo Ball's new high school basketball coach, Jermaine Jackson -- who says he's so excited about the young player, it's like Magic Johnson all over again.
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From LuteBox, the London-based entrepreneur moved on to the now-defunct Dispatch, a competitor to the U.S.-based on-demand concierge services like Magic, which pitched a bespoke service where users could — for a fee — get almost anything their hearts desired (but you couldn't get a tiger).
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Varjo wants to take on companies like Magic Leap, Microsoft and Meta to create mixed reality headsets that build upon its display technology, though this technology isn't really suited for transparent display systems like waveguides so it would still rely on pass-through camera displays to pull of the mixed reality.
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Indeed, his chapter comparing the posh Jazz at Lincoln Center with the punky Knitting Factory has a radiant clarity: You think you're lost in his usual dizzying kaleidoscope of artists, agendas and conversations, when suddenly he twists something, and the whole New York scene comes sliding — like magic — into focus.
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In "Housing Development with Power Station, Eastside, Detroit" (2016), the brightly-lit smokestacks of the utility complex rise ignominiously above a row of cookie-cutter housing, which are being kissed by what looks like magic-hour orange light (but cannot be, based on the ash-gray conditions of the sky in the background).
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But I think we should be paying more attention to the idea that any group — whether the state, a political party or corporate interest — can devise a plan about how and when to make headlines, execute their strategy, deploy their emissaries and talking points and, like magic, determine what we report and when.
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Like magic itself, the series has a lot to unpack: Beth Elderkin of io9 wrote that it "might be one of the most forward-thinking shows on television right now," while The Mary Sue's Jessica Lachenal found herself "disagreeing with the creative choices" during a scene where a female character is sexually assaulted.
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Sometimes when you take psychoactive drugs like magic mushrooms you get to this place where you are constantly forgetting what happened a second ago, making conversations impossible—you'll start a sentence, lose your train of thought in the middle, and by the end you're just hoping what you just said made sense.
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When it is time to watch the game, the owners who get a glimpse of the players from inside this most exclusive of vantage points — private equity types and tech moguls but also boldface names like Magic Johnson, Will Ferrell and Mia Hamm Garciaparra — can take a private elevator to the owners' veranda.
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Why psychedelics like magic mushrooms could be a treatment for mental illnessPeople feel more connected to the world around them after a psychedelic trip — and it could have profound implicationsResearchers went to festivals to study psychedelic drugs and found they left people feeling happy and connected hours after the high wore off
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But the ability of these services to be able to serve you in ways that to you appears like magic – that is why artificial intelligence when it relates to travel, when it relates to being able to essentially serve you without even your understanding how and give you a result that delights you, that's magic.
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Powerful lines like "I constantly wonder, what happens to a Black girl who was too anxious to ever feel like magic?" and "I have been fighting her for control of our house for years," have resonated on Twitter among people who also feel that their anxiety is an unwanted partner who just won't go away.
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This was especially true of the short-lived chatbot boom of a few years ago, when big names like Facebook and startups like Magic began employing scores of contractors hidden behind AI agents, like Facebook's discontinued M, that would take the reins (or were the ones talking the whole time) when conversations became too complicated.
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He taps into a vein of something like magic realism to add a layer of symbolism to this otherwise realistic fiction: We are persuaded that Nargis should attempt to repair a shredded book with golden thread, though literal-minded readers may find themselves thinking that double-sided tape would have done the job more effectively.
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Similarly, like last year, we can expect more of the focus to be on augmented reality, thanks to companies like Magic Leap and its new Magic Leap One headset, and all the brewing interest from the mobile AR space that's helped the technology evolve from silly Snapchat face masks to full-blown AR mobile games and apps.
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Thus, like magic, you can remove that unsightly office surrounding and place yourself on a beach in the Bahamas… Because Banuba's technology equips devices with "vision," meaning they can "see" human faces in 3D and extract meaningful subject analysis based on neural networks, including age and gender, it can do things that other apps just cannot do.
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What's special about Love Is ___ is how it walks the line between being honest about the obstacles that come with falling in love while still making it feel like magic — something they execute by lingering on delicious moments like that first good conversation that lasts for hours, where you find yourself sharing secrets you haven't told people you've known for years.
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Magic Leap and Wacom say they're currently working with design agencies and other firms to test out creative software capabilities, and one of Magic Leap's biggest supporters is Weta Workshop, a design and manufacturing studio that's created props for movies like Lord of the Rings and Mad Max, as well as AR games like Magic Leap's early Dr. Grordbort's Invaders demo.
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That's compared to Apple's portrait mode that only works on the iPhone 7+, 8+, and X, and Android portrait mode that exists on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Instagram's launch could also suck attention away from "fake portrait mode" apps like Magic Portrait Mode, FabFocus, LightX and Point Blur that can also add blurry background "bokeh effects" to images.
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It's admittedly a bit unusual to see a company with such substantial backing pushing most of its chips in on 3D 360 video, but as headset-makers like Magic Leap (another a16z bet) and others focus their energies on consumer smartglasses powered by light field displays, startups like Lytro are able to see a potential world where its technology could be indispensable.
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I caused walls to be knocked down and floors to be ripped up and rooms to be gutted; I threw away decades' worth of clutter and keepsakes and old furniture; with what at times seemed like magic and at others sheer violence, I caused the past to be obliterated and put something new, something of my choosing, in its place.
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Ray is now (a) plagued by amnesia and dim memories that may or may not have been implanted; (b) powered by microscopic "nanites" that have been injected into his bloodstream, giving him the power to heal grievous injuries like magic, punch holes in concrete pillars and conduct Internet searches without opening Google Chrome; and (c) programmed to be a killing machine.
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But into this particular swan's mouth disappeared a piece of the Chore Boy, followed by one small chip off the drywall, and then Duncan Dioguardi ran his lighter back and forth, orange flame on silver neck, and from the swan's tail he sucked ever so gently, cheeks pulling, pulling, until, like magic, he tilted his head back and out of his mouth emerged a perfect puff of white smoke.
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According to Chinese reports, the country's telecom companies are expected to spend at least $443 billion between 2020 and 2030 in China on its 5G network, and untold billions in the US.Much of the 5G spectrum has already been auctioned off to the highest bidders and the necessary infrastructure (all the upgraded towers and goobly bits that make our modern age work like magic) are being built by America's biggest communications companies.
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