Once upon a time, CIOs worried about routers and switches.

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At the flick of of its switches, the screens display real-time connected data like recent foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook Likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.

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It's an ideal time to add compact instruments, Internet links and automated switches to control the flow of electricity.

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It calculates the time earned and once it runs out, the TV automatically switches itself off until more exercise is done.

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Writing for The Guardian, Mr Cox said that when TV switches from analogue to digital, which he thought would be in 10 years' time, the majority of homes in the UK "will effectively become electronic retail outlets".

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Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton are two of Team GB's main medal hopes on day six of the Games, as action switches to the velodrome following the success of Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome in the time trials on Wednesday.

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The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").

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That you need a profusion of such switches to get the right pattern of genes turned on and off in a given cell at a given time is obvious.

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At the same time, a different set of IBM researchers in Switzerland have discovered a way to make individual molecules act like "switches" without altering the framework of the molecule, which could lead to molecular logic circuits.

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