Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.

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On this afternoon, two portly bald men in suits stood facing the speaker from a few feet away, tapping at the transcription machines, which resembled nineteenth-century cash registers, slung around their necks.

NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

That swelling stack of chips comes from tapping regional markets and local gamblers, and adding slot machines to existing horse racing facilities.

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