"I'm not a medic so I don't know how it is passed on, but you can spit, cough, sneeze - anything that comes out of your body is how it is passed on I suppose, " he said.

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IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"

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The word originally used may have been different from spit, although it has the same number of letters, but you get the drift.

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Very hard for people to stick with a formula that is telling you to buy out-of-favor stocks that were spit out by a computer, you know, nonetheless, and to stick with that when it's not working.

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