Officials said in its current form, the machine could be mounted on a truck and deployed to sites identified as prone to gun violence.
We decided to exclude the traditional list of "simple machines, " which includes the lever, pulley, wheel and wedge, since most other tools employ some form of simple machine--a hammer is basically a lever, and an axe is essentially a wedge.
So how might these two apparently contradictory elements form some tangible paradox machine?
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Notice how bolts and moving parts and gears start out as smaller, less dominant parts of the machines, but then come to dominate it with massive parts until even the form of the particular machine itself becomes lost amid that sinking into parts that seem to grow larger around us.
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Examples of data that are already being released in machine-readable form across government.
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Most of it is unstructured and stored in a non-machine-readable form (eg, English), which means that it can be read only by humans.
They are fast enough to scan trucks and cars as they pass through toll booths, portable enough to be used almost anywhere and sensitive enough to distinguish between a weapons-grade isotope and the less dangerous form in an X-ray machine.
On to the shelves will be put the valves and other components that form the computational heart of the pioneering machine.
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The borg is a character in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, an alien life form that is part human and part machine.
For those of a certain age, Pretty Hate Machine will always evoke a particular form of teen-transgressive ressentiment.
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The project has also unveiled reference designs for a second generation machine, which will take the form of an e-book with twin touch screens.
The meds may come in liquid form to use in a nebulizer, a machine that turns them into a mist, or in a traditional inhaler.
This battle is about to be re-enacted in the euro zone, where higher-cost countries have tied themselves to a new gold standard, in the form of the hyper-efficient German export machine.
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Based in San Francisco, Splunk was created to make machine data accessible to business users in intelligible form without going through the IT shop to get a report.
Brain-machine interfaces are already, in a crude form, working.
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Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.
The machine blends iron, bleach and sodium hydroxide to form a dark purple liquid mixture of ferrate, salt and water that gets metered into the water supply. (The color disappears instantly as it reacts with the water.) Common disinfectants ozone and chlorine can turn the water cloudy or, worse, leave behind harmful chemical by-products.
The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
Creating software that can write long-form narratives is very difficult, full of all sorts of interesting artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language problems.
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Heading to your office gym or fitness club to do at least 20 minutes of cardio a few days a week: the elliptical, treadmill, rowing machine, stair master, pool, power plate, or any other form of cardio are all excellent options for getting your workouts done (what you choose to do should depend on your individual condition, body type, and goals).
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For the Majorana experiment, physicists have made their own purified form of copper underground some of the purest on the planet and built an underground machine shop to make parts with the copper.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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