We are heading into an instrumented world, in which intelligence is widely distributed across the physical landscape, turning everything into, in effect, a machine.

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Just as the construction of America's highways meant that Goodyear sold many more tyres, he hopes the Internet will have a similar effect on the machine-translation business.

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By shooting with a moving camera and printing every third frame, he achieves a staccato effect as if the camera were a machine gun.

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Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears patent appeals, reversed, saying in effect the body of the patient was a machine that transformed the thiopurine into something completely new.

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In effect, the federal government has become an entitlements machine.

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In other words, some machine-based tutoring is approaching the effect size of real human tutoring and there is less variation than one might expect as the grain size of tutoring becomes finer.

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Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.

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Speaking of saving the universe, "Mass Effect 3" brings back Commander Shepard to resume his battles against the machine race of Reapers.

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