The use of Bitcoins has been slowly spilling from the online into the physical world - for example, it is now possible to use the currency to buy pizza.
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They have a tough group with the world champions - and in my opinion the best team in the world - Brazil, a brave and physical Norwegian side and the unknown quantity of Morocco.
Being able to find a business by name rather than having to look up its address is the physical-world equivalent of typing in a domain name versus having to remember an IP address.
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By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.
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Some of the specialty arrows could also be considered over-the-top in a world where physical laws, however futuristic in their application, still rule.
In the physical world, megastores such as Wal-Mart thrive on high volume, deep discounts and speedy, flexible supply chains that allow them to change prices and product mix on a daily basis.
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The line between fantasy and reality blurs when players arrange to meet in the physical world and end up marrying each other--in a real church.
It does, however, offer up smartphone-style predictive text at the bottom of the screen, which may help address some of the headache of this physical keyboard-free world we're all living in.
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And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
One of the principles of international behavior is that our diplomats -- we send them around the world -- that they are going to be protected, they are not targets for threats or physical violence.
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PayPal this morning announced deals with offline payment systems operators Verifone and Equinox Payments that will make the eBay-owned service a more viable alternative for physical world payments.
On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), but for the physical world.
On the home front, a house-cleaning robot is much desired, as is a searching contraption that would find lost keys and books--sort of like Google, but for the physical world.
Facial detection technology is making it feasible to do real-time measurement and analysis of ads in the physical world and predict the products you will want to buy, based on who you are or what you look like.
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Whereas VR goggles immerse a user in a computer-generated environment, AR uses semi-transparent goggles, which overlay computer-generated graphics onto a user's view of the physical world.
That moment of inspiration brought together the physical world of products and the virtual world of data, laying the foundation for a data-based, digital economy.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that physical inactivity is the main cause for 21-25 percent of colon and breast cancer, 27 percent of cases of diabetes, and up to 30 percent of cases of ischemic heart disease.
The idea of physical presence, however, has its merits, even in this Web-dominated world.
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The issues raised by these allegations are wide-ranging and involve the meeting of the new world of cyberspace with that of physical space.
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Ho and Wong had thought that the parallel to leaving a physical room would be well-received, but in this data-driven world, people want at least a little bit of history to remind them of what has been.
Not long ago, finding a mate, or even a like-minded group of friends, was something that definitely happened in the "real" physical world.
Touchscreens are great and all, but when you end up losing your place in a book, all the touchy-swipey technology in the world can't sway my belief that sometimes, a physical button is better.
For the most part most data centers are operating in the pre-virtual world, in which the pace of change is governed by the rate at which physical servers can come and go.
Dr. Stacy provided a detailed technical presentation of the physical location, size and geo-political complexities associated with bringing to market what he characterized as potentially the world's second-largest oil reserves -- and a key energy resource for the industrialized nations in the 21st Century .
Horn-honking had become a symbolic rite, evoking the function once filled, in the world of physical reality, by use of the brake pedal.
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