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"Imagine if the Enterprise's on-board replicator made walkie-talkies, instead of cups of tea. That's the latest way-out idea from Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm."

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"The trouble began with the appearance of virtual gold rings in several areas of the virtual world [...] they starting replicating wildly and, eventually, the servers on which the game is hosted

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