• Members of the San Francisco hacker collective Noisebridge brought along an autonomous wheeled robot designed to fetch beverages from a fridge or follow humans based on facial recognition.

    FORBES: Robots, Codebreaking and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

  • The API (application programming interface), available publicly on the internet, would allow LinkedIn to fetch my data from the relevant storage provider.

    FORBES: I Want My Data Back! (A Vision Of Data Vaults, APIs, Open Systems And Standards)

  • These ads are typically a few words on the side of a page of search results or text, and fetch Google anywhere from pennies to a couple of bucks.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One of the most popular features of Intuit's Quicken financial software is the "PIN vault, " which holds users' various passwords so Quicken can fetch financial information from other sites.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • John Ensign, R-Nevada, got up to fetch something to eat from the candy drawer in one of the back desks.

    CNN: Smiles, handshakes on the Senate floor

  • Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.

    MSN: Post-Curiosity, uncertainty lingers on Mars program

  • If they were to put the paper up for sale, it would fetch an enormous price from one of a long list of buyers, including Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the New York Times Company and the Washington Post Company, who all doubtless believe they could run it better.

    ECONOMIST: A new venture for an old paper

  • From time to time, the parents dispatched their children to fetch bags of tiny shellfish, spatchcocked squid from the grill, malodorous 'stinky tofu'.

    BBC: Here be dragons

  • "We often walk several kilometers without even getting to a small stream from which we can fetch drinking water, " says Mpoup.

    CNN: Rangers risk their lives to save African forest elephant

  • They had put the box in a different section of the yard, out of view, so that when Kandula looked up at the tempting food he would need to recall the solution and walk away from his goal to fetch the tool.

    WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

  • If you can figure out a way to get breathable oxygen from moon rocks, that will fetch a quarter-million-dollar price.

    NPR: School Bus Driver Wins NASA Contest

  • By the market's peak in 1913, a single plume might fetch 12 pounds, the price of a steamship ticket from England to South Africa.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But after you've set things up, the site will continuously fetch the latest points balances, expiration dates and reward opportunities from all your flight, hotel, car rental and credit-card programs.

    BBC: Tracking travel rewards

  • He says the parts of a dead eagle can easily fetch a thousand dollars or more on a black market that stretches from western Canada to Florida.

    NPR: Poaching Sheds Light on Market for Eagle Parts

  • If you would prefer to avoid the bumpy drive from Manzanillo, the concierge will send a private plane to fetch you, landing on the grass airstrip at the property.

    WSJ: The Hacienda de San Antonio

  • The club is figuring on a boost from 19, 000 to 35, 000 a game in its state-of-the-art home (yet to fetch a corporate naming rights deal), one that will bring protection from the heat and rain in addition to the standard upscale amenities.

    FORBES: Can Baseball Really Work in South Florida?

  • Their products were banned from the American market, where their hand-painted beauty could fetch much higher prices than in rural Mexico, where the pots were merely a practicality.

    ECONOMIST: A battle for lead-free pottery

  • "We're still a long way from the having the kind of valuation that a company our size should fetch, " sighs Serge Tchuruk (pronounced "cha-RUK"), Alcatel's CEO, over a four-course lunch at its tastefully modern headquarters just off the Champs-lyses.

    FORBES: Laggard

  • Experienced estate managers typically fetch six-figure salaries in return for a substantial skill set that spans everything from knowledge of fine food and wine to an understanding of art and architecture to skills in household accounting, personnel management, first aid, computers, high-tech security and HVAC systems.

    FORBES: Modern-Day Downton Abbey: Inside The Super-Secret World Of Estate Management

  • Many walk several kilometers from their homes in dusty villages each day to scrounge for firewood and to fetch water.

    CNN: Once Again, With Attitude

  • His film roles, from acting in King Kong to doing voice work on Kung Fu Panda, can fetch far more.

    FORBES: Why Most Acts Don't Get Paid At South By Southwest

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