The Smart Grid will use automated meters, two-way communications and advanced sensors to improve electricity efficiency and reliability.
The firm decided it wouldn't be ethical to use automated software to log into private message boards to scrape them.
According to a recent survey by Investment News, more than 70% of investment advisors do not use automated portfolio rebalancing software.
Customers also should be aware that changing banks can be an arduous process for people who use automated bill-pay and other services.
Swensen says he could use automated software to help him balance the numbers each day, but that would take all the fun out of it.
In addition, airlines and airports that use automated kiosks for services such as printing boarding passes and baggage tags would have to ensure that any kiosk ordered 60 days after the rule takes effect is accessible.
But patching the vulnerabilities used for mass infections of sites, which often use automated tools to spread malware among thousands of targets, is very different from patching every vulnerability a hacker could possibly use for a targeted attack on a single victim site.
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The use of automated closed-circuit surveillance cameras is proving effective in deterring urban street crime.
With Go Secure, network administrators have some work to do before end users can use the automated enrollment.
The UK company, Webrecruit, reports a steady increase in the use of automated video interviewing over the past few years.
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An interesting note in the report says that financial institutions plan to increase their use of automated trading (59 percent).
An adviser can use an automated scheduling system such as HootSuite to prepopulate tweets and send them at a later time.
Although the use of automated systems are not banned, companies have been told by Ofcom to employ such practices more carefully.
For example, passengers could use an automated check-in system or gaze at a screen with departures information without realizing they've just been exposed to the words "Islamic jihad" written in Arabic.
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This is indeed something that could be automated via use of an expert system.
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In early use, the benefits of automated real-time changes seem apparent given the scale of some campaigns.
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To this end, there is the use of a variety of automated marketing and customer service applications.
The use of any agencies or automated software to submit entries will void all entries submitted by that person.
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Bans are usually in answer to automated voting schemes that use bots, though similar effects can be had by getting large groups of employees to manually upvote stories.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
Energy providers can give their customers energy use updates via alerts, charts, automated phone messages, text messages, chats, twitter updates and online portals.
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King is leading a team focused on developing robot scientists robots that not only perform automated experiments, but also use an iterative approach to use the data from one experiment to then determine the next experiment by ruling out hypotheses.
The driver, who hasn't been identified, eventually escaped from the brothers after letting them use his bank card to withdraw money from an automated teller machine, authorities said.
Touch-screen voting systems, which look like automated teller machines, are easy to use, but they make recounts next to impossible--because, unlike ATMs, they produce no independent paper trail.
Once they know where they stand, some companies use cloud computing to empower their fuel buyers with powerful, automated fuel purchasing and management software.
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Though the NHTSA's sights are clearly set on an automated vehicle future, it's yet to determine whether or not inclusion and use of that tech will be mandated.
There are some automated valuation tools on the web like valuate.com and estibot.com that use search traffic, backlinks, and other data to appraise the value in the domain name.
Those include a pilot program to test the use of platform barrier doors on the L subway line, and a vow to explore the installation of an automated warning system that would alert train controllers when a person is on the tracks.
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