When technology advanced to facilitate and automate our tasks, it also gave us something to talk to each other about.

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Recently, parallel architectures utilized by computer graphics firms like Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia actually do run certain tasks at the same time, using multiple buses (communications pathways) that lead to separate computing engines.

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The state Education Department says the 2013 test questions will be more advanced and students will be challenged to perform more complex tasks in line with the Common Core standards that have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

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As globalisation has advanced, it has become easier to move some of these tasks offshore.

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In addition, EPRI is pursuing advanced robotics for a variety of routine but high-risk tasks currently performed by line workers.

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It has completed the Strategy and the preliminary planning and coordination tasks that it was intended to produce and has significantly advanced important ecosystem restoration goals for the Gulf of Mexico.

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The company has two advanced applications (one for enterprise security and one for PCI compliance), several other purpose built applications for tasks such as running Microsoft Exchange, Cisco Iron Port, F5, and other products, and dozens of apps on Splunkbase that come from both Splunk and from its growing community of developers.

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