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Devise a system that monitors live ratings for digital
television and feeds back the information to individualEditor’s note:
viewers such that televisions can be programmed to This could work now
recommend or automatically switch to the most popular for websites and
programmes of the moment. Internet traffic.
Ultimately, users could
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notify them when, for
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more than trebled its
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