Because, really, you can never truly feel close to a coffee machine until it's taunted you to jump up and down to fill your cup of joe.

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Because it has a 6-gigabyte hard drive, most music collectors would be hard-pressed to even come close to exhausting the machine's capacity.

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Whereas the PRI is planning to field Beatriz Paredes, a well-known figure with close ties to her party's machine in the capital, the PRD has struggled to unite behind a strong candidate.

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Because of the volume, level of detail, and amount of noise in external big data, machine learning techniques will be required close to the data.

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On the other hand, Mr Bush is undoubtedly right that revamping the government machine makes more sense than either trying to close it down or letting it run on its own momentum.

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Using two fingers can control multiple lights and using the familiar pinch-close gesture turns off all the lights in your home using machine-to-machine communication between multiple dimmers.

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Yes, it's one really thin and light machine, and in terms of numbers, it comes extremely close to rivaling the MacBook Air.

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It was getting close to midnight in London, and there were no dancers, no waves, no Miami Sound Machine blasting through the August sky.

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