Sentences with phrase «unknown purpose»

As it stands, even this minimal genome has many genes with unknown purposes.

However, the Cambridge Analytica story highlights the risks of forfeiting our privacy and data to unknown entities for unknown purposes.

It has many forms; it has no name; it is The Machine of Unknown Purpose with Buttons You Can Press.

The invasion of privacy is twofold: (a) the collection of biometric digital imagery and (b) the retention of it in unknown databases for unknown periods of time for unknown purposes.

In his official biographical notes, Chu wrote fondly of his childhood Erector set and spending «many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose.»

«I wouldn't want NASA to turn itself upside down to go there, for unknown purposes.

That deeply unsettling image is one of many in Jon Glazer's hypnotic, hallucinogenic film Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson as a mysterious, predatory alien who drives a van around Scotland, looking for men to lure into her trap to be harvested for some nefarious, unknown purpose.

It captures Villar Rojas's «studio» team (a large group of multiskilled people, many of whom he has worked with for years, and who travel with him en masse wherever he shows) working on various projects inside and outside the house: moulding small clay figures, stripping back bamboo on the grounds, erecting a structure of unknown purpose.

Weird and incomprehensible objects, machines of unknown purpose, mystifying slogans and unprovable propositions: it must be Turner prize time again.

In my opinion, Bitcoin Classic was pushed for political reasons; to try to get the power out of Bitcoin Core's hands by some unproven team for unknown purposes.