The company does not disclose how many computers now populate its server farms.
Terpstra says its computers now looks for earnings releases from 700 publicly-traded companies.
In some areas of medicine computers now have better diagnostic skills than humans.
Many computers now contain multiple HDDs for expanded storage and backup purposes.
Macintosh computers now have a 10 percent market share, while notebook computers are as much as 20 percent (with an industry record-setting margin of profit).
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All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.
Smaller notebook computers, now euphemistically called " ultrabooks ", were thinner and smaller than ever.
While not idiotproof, PCs, smartphones and tablet computers can now really connect directly to printers via the Web.
The problem, according to many security researchers, is that computers are now capable of far too many human abilities.
And computers are now integral to nearly every conventionally blue-collar profession, from police work to cargo loading to trucking.
Computers have now replaced magnetic tape, meaning the devices can record more data and are far more likely to survive an impact.
The subtle, but far more important lesson to see in Udacity, is that the computers are now even putting the professors out of work.
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The fact that computers are now being used by people around the globe as a source of entertainment is powering the next stage of technology growth.
Computers are now so ubiquitous that we all see the world through a programming lens whether we want to or not, whether we work with technology or not.
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Mobile phones and handheld computers are now the same device.
With a library of over 17 million songs, spanning all possible genres, a single subscription account with Napster allows users to enjoy their favourite songs on all relevant devices, including smartphones, computers and now their LG 2012 Smart TVs this party season.
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Many consumer products, such as digital camcorders and personal computers, are now as complex as cars.
Now computers can handle video, tablets can handle video, phones can handle video, so it makes sense.
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Before, it was humans doing it and now computers take all the information about a particular company and distill it into a trading decision.
Just as Microsoft used its dominance in operating systems to get its browser onto millions of computers, it now can rely on that browser to offer Web software.
"Most lawful users of music and books have hundreds of dollars of lawfully obtained things on their computers and right now the value of that is zero dollars, " said ReDigi's chief executive John Ossenmacher.
"There are a lot of computer manufacturers that are making computers like these now that you can buy presently and are supporting Big Picture, " he said, referencing the three non-Valve PCs on display in the booth.
Intel (15, INTC) has all but dispatched Advanced Micro Devices as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
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After 20 years of installing and upgrading public computers in their institutions, libraries now report that the use of these computers is declining.
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The little computers in our hands that now give us access to all the world's information via the Web will become little computers in our brains giving us access to all the world's information.
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Everything we do now involves computers, and computers produce data as a natural by-product.
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