The match was held in New York City and was billed as the contest that would ultimately answer the big question: what is the most intelligent thinking machine on the planet?

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We needed a picture of the planet taken by the machine that now bears the great man's name.

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It also did so after enduring 50 cycles in one of the most hostile environments known on the planet: a domestic washing machine.

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Someday, such a machine could be sent to explore a distant planet, where it could clone itself.

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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.

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It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giant server farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.

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