He developed a system called Brain Gate that was implanted in four patients.

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In this case, the DNA was designed to operate on a very simple logic gate system, just like a computer.

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In a statement, the UFU president said Northern Ireland farmers had invested in a "birth to farm gate" traceability system in the local red meat sector, which was complemented by the Farm Quality Assurance Scheme.

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Major League Baseball used to have a gate receipt sharing system during the regular season ( they still have one for the postseason), but it was eliminated when larger revenue sharing mechanisms were introduced in 1997.

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The carrier delayed flights when a computer system shut down for two hours, forcing gate agents to manually process passengers.

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If all goes well, the system could check up to 1, 200 passengers every hour at a single gate -- a rate quick enough to prevent a logjam at even the busiest terminals.

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When your plane's about to board and you're trying desperately to find which gate your flight was switched to (because the announcement over the public address system was, of course, unintelligible), that's not when you want to be pinching, zooming, and scrolling on your phone.

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Anti-nuclear protesters chained themselves together at the gate of the Faslane naval base on the Clyde which is home to the UK's Trident weapon system.

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