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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot


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The LAT's Quakebot finished its story in seconds flat.

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Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.

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