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In this November 21, 2017, photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology robotics researcher Cynthia Breazeal, left, stands next to social robot Jibo, right, at the company's headquarters in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
August 9, 2018, 10:00 am
Robots — including Israeli-made — are getting more social. Are humans ready?
Firms are struggling to make marketable, intelligent droids, but a few may soon make a breakthrough -- including ElliQ, an Israeli-made robot for seniors
By Matt O'Brien
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
April 21, 2018, 8:18 pm
After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
CNN finds 300 companies, government agencies run ads on YouTube channels that promote white nationalists, Nazis, conspiracy theories, and North Korean propaganda
By RYAN NAKASHIMA and Matt O'Brien
Illustrative photo of a swastika painted at Temple Ohawe Sholam in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Marty Cooper/Jewish Alliance for Greater Rhode Island via JTA)
November 24, 2016, 8:46 am
Rhode Island rabbi reports uptick in anti-Semitic harassment
Leader of Providence congregation says he and others have been taunted often in past year with slurs such as 'you should have been burned in the ovens'
By Matt O'Brien
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