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The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature.

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When the filters stopping Iranians from using popular western social media services evaporated on Monday, some suspected a thaw in the country’s censorship policies. They were wrong.

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Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president whose potent critique of communist rule helped foment revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall, never won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The former "View" co-host helped show off the show’s new set and weighed in on subjects ranging from hard news to sports.

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France has made Japan angry again, this time with insensitive political cartoons about Fukushima.
With radiation levels still spiking, and the government only reticently admitting to constant leaks, some are questioning the legitimacy of PM Abe’s insistence that Tokyo is safe. With decisions not to prosecute anyone involved in the disaster, it seems that amakudari is, in Japan as in most other countries, still alive and well.

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Some wonder if Obama can be as intense with hot-button domestic issues.

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The White House says the president’s a proud progressive. But to prominent liberals, he’s not.

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Many execs in the digital media and marketing industries cringe at the notion that the National Security Administration surveillance scandal has any ties to their consumer data-collection practices. As that debate rages on, a bedrock of the consumer data explosion — cloud computing — could be at risk in the U.S.

An August report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation predicts as much as $35 billion could leak from the U.S. cloud computing market by 2016 if foreign clients pull business from U.S.-based cloud services. By 2016, Gartner estimated the public cloud computing sector would generate $207 billion.

Advertising agencies, ad tech firms offering marketing software and data management services, and brands themselves use U.S.-based cloud services, which allow relatively easy, cost-efficient access to data they use to run digital ad targeting, email marketing efforts, site optimization and loyalty programs. Amazon is one of the largest providers of cloud-based data services. Even average web users store data such as document and music files in the cloud via services such as Google Drive and Dropbox.

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No one was sure how long Sonya had been living on the streets of Los Angeles–possibly as long as 10 years. But when she appeared on Google Street View, Eldad Hagar of the charity Hope for Paws set out to rescue her.

Sometimes humans are awesome.

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He calls Obama’s foreign policy "incompetent."

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