— Jeff Gordinier New Scientist: Chalk up another job gain for the machines: Danish researchers have developed a "magnetic tongue," a sensor that could help food manufacturers test flavor and texture without resorting to human tasters.
The Romans became so desperate that they resorted to human sacrifice, twice burying people alive at the Forum of Rome and abandoning an oversized baby in the Adriatic Sea (perhaps one of the last instances of human sacrifices by the Romans, apart from public executions of defeated enemies dedicated to Mars).
The bank's automated teller system was broken so they had to resort to the human variety -- those that that run on chocolate chips, not microchips.
To cut through this mess, rather than resort to tedious human error prone hand fitting, the decision was made early on to borrow tools for edge detection from the modern digital signal processing toolkit.
During requirements prioritization, some decisions on the relative importance of requirements or the feasibility of a given implementation order must necessarily resort to a human (e.g., the requirements analyst), possessing the involved knowledge.
As a consequence, many investigators have resorted to "humanizing" the codon content of non-human cDNAs in order to achieve expression in human cells.
In their haste to solve the reporters' cases, critics contend, state officials appear to have resorted to what human rights and legal experts describe as standard procedure in Mexican criminal investigations: questionable confessions and unreliable identifications.
This data is notoriously thin, and companies like Google are resorting to using human labor to attempt to add descriptive keywords to images stored on their servers.
Yes, North Korea's economy is apparently so pathetic that the regime has resorted to exporting human beings in exchange for foreign currency.
Mullen also said he hasn't seen any reports of civilian casualties as a result of the coalition's military operation and that Gaddafi has resorted to using human shields in an attempt to prevent further attacks.
