An on-board computer gets the machine's position from satellites and reads a digital blueprint from a chip.

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Next on the drawing board: a digital machine to help you sleep better.

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With touch-screen functionality on a fully capable machine with a proper amount of on-board storage that will be able to smoothly run Microsoft Office applications out of the box, Windows 8 promises to be an exciting transition for dedicated PC users, while offering the best of both worlds for tablet users.

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His grandfather had been an alderman and Cook County board president, a cog in the city's Democratic machine.

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Until now all these devices have been one-off prototypes, but CUPP's partnering with Origin to make the PunkThis board available as an option on the EON11-S. The machine we played with was a pre-production unit using CUPP's single core ARM module running Gingerbread, but the company is working on a multi-core version with Jelly Bean.

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The board then voted to discard results that had been previously certified on the machine recount.

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The canvassing board there reverted to election night tallies after discovering a ballot-counting machine had malfunctioned during the recount.

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Frustrated with the faulty answering machine in his new Compaq Presario, Dale Johnson clicked into an on-line bulletin board last July.

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The machine is out of order, so he carefully writes in the date by hand, gets on board, and is fined by the conductor for not having a valid ticket.

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