If the person later felt any chest pain, they could do a further test, and the machine would tell them if there was any sign of a heart attack or angina and direct them to seek medical attention.

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Unlike the Pap, it is an objective test read by a machine and results in a positive or negative result.

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Computer scientists like to argue about whether a machine has ever passed this test.

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Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.

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The president, then, is condemned to be the driver of a high-powered machine, whose full performance he can never test.

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Vertex, instead, takes a machine-gun approach, designing thousands of compounds to test them against hundreds of potentially disease-causing proteins--all at once, and before scientists even know which protein might be a good target or which compound might actually work.

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However, in one test when the throttle was applied, it took 13 minutes for a second machine to be infected, and half an hour for a third.

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