And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.

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One thing would make a difference: whether we can get the growth machine going again.

WSJ: Jenkins: Lost Decade, Revisited

The only real difference is the addition of a mechanised stuffing machine.

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There is fundamental difference between the attachment of cookies to track where a machine has been in support of targeted advertising and systems that gain access to the personal information on the machine.

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The difference is that speech detection is a megabyte problem, while machine vision is a gigabyte problem.

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Now the outfit's back, this time with a game: Contre Jour is coming to the web, and while it runs in any modern browser, you'll need IE 10 and a Windows 8 machine to play a third of the levels (it shouldn't make a difference if you have a touchscreen or a multitouch trackpad).

ENGADGET: 'Contre Jour' is now playable in the browser, one third of the levels require IE 10