It was to have orbited Eros in January 1999, but a computer glitch ordered Near's rocket to misfire.
An airline official said it was not a mechanical problem, but a computer error on the electric brake system controls.
Listening to 100 neurons firing is like listening to static, but a computer can pick up different patterns in the nerve impulses as a person thinks about moving in different ways.
Though these changes can go unnoticed by a person with a disease, relatives and friends more often pick up on it, but a computer algorithm that detects nuances of speech and subtle changes could detect abberations with much greater frequency.
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For example, the act of remembering is a bit like a computer reading a location and rewriting the information at the same time, but a computer can rewrite the exact data that was there whereas humans alter it a bit each time they remember.
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This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.
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They have sued SonicBlue over the ReplayTV device, which records TV programming like a traditional VCR but uses a computer hard drive instead of tape.
When all the finishing touches are complete, the master copy of the movie will reside not as a film negative but as a computer file, several terabytes in size (exactly how many terabytes, no one yet knows).
"That's normally a very fluid action, but to a computer, it's confusing, " says Lazaridis.
Probably not, but a group of computer scientists and music scholars have built a machine that can do just that.
And the advance guard of this revolution is neither a console nor a computer, but a flat, thin, palm-sized piece of plastic.
The Raspberry Pi is about the size of a credit card but is a fully working computer created to help young people get started with programming.
Someone could tell me what it takes to be a great computer programmer and I could mouth talking points about how important computer programming is but I will never be a computer programmer.
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But Barrett thinks a computer's features are more important than its price.
But what if a computer model factors in the educational level of the applicant's mother, which in America is strongly correlated with race?
But Microsoft argues that the release of the new version of Windows is critical not only to the company but to a personal computer industry seeing one of the worst downturns in its history.
It looks like a TV but acts as more like a computer, playing CDs, slide shows of digital photos, and video on demand.
Runs these days start not with a queue of people lining up to withdraw cash but with clicks of a computer to transfer money abroad or to buy bonds, shares or other assets.
Before KeepShot, I had a hard time imagining doing any book editing without a computer mouse, but after a couple of days with the iPad app, my fingers' on-screen gestures were able to create a photo book with no problem.
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Streaming technology had to improve: this allows studio servers to send a continuous flow or stream of data through (but not to) a desktop computer, where it is converted into sound.
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She and her husband do have a computer but far from being online, it's not even plugged in.
Sorry to disappoint, but your computer is a treasure trove for criminals.
All right, now, I'm seeing a like a computer but insy weensy.
Many people research on their smartphone, but actually purchase at a computer.
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But Mr Smith alleges a computer shipping password had been deliberately changed, meaning goods destined for Australia could have ended up in Germany but were spotted in time.
That will leave plenty of room for future arguments about software patents, which by definition involve a machine called a computer but also may consist entirely of ideas set down in computer code.
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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
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At first, the Strand-1 satellite will be controlled by a standard onboard computer, but in phase two of the mission, a Google Nexus phone will take the reins - equipped with a number of special apps.
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