All the rage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connections now cover much more than just smart energy delivery and smart cars.

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The machine recount, requested by Republicans, will cover all ballots in the county.

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At the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island, Florida, the focus was on the new, low-end machines like MiSeq and the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, which was the subject of this Forbes cover story.

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Feed in a digital manuscript, and in a few minutes the machine produces a bound paperback, complete with a color cover.

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The Betamax lost out because, unlike the VHS machine, it couldn't record for the full three hours needed to cover a baseball game.

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And I wish that we could just have a time machine and sort of vortex ourselves from place to place, but we are definitely going to cover the ground and get to Texas.

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Staff Sergeant Romesha took out an enemy machine gun team, and, while engaging a second, the generator he was using for cover was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade, inflicting him with shrapnel wounds.

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