The president, then, is condemned to be the driver of a high-powered machine, whose full performance he can never test.

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Vertex, instead, takes a machine-gun approach, designing thousands of compounds to test them against hundreds of potentially disease-causing proteins--all at once, and before scientists even know which protein might be a good target or which compound might actually work.

FORBES: Machine Gunner

Throughout the 75-minute test participants were shown responses given by four other subjects, while the MRI machine snapped 1, 000 brain images.

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Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.

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Our correspondent added that the back-up computer on the rover had previously been used to test software updates before they were installed on the main machine.

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