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Asimov wrote "a robot may not injure a human being, or through inactivity allow a human being to come to harm," but some of our robotic war machines are already challenging that. As a counterpoint, let's take a look at the bots that were created to help care for us. The softer side of bots, if you will.

This week News Corp. execs James and Rupert Murdoch were dragged before a investigatory committee of Parliament over the U.K.'s phone-hacking scandal. Meanwhile hacktivists LulzSec decided to take matters into their own hands, and targeted the website of News Corp

Document embedding and web form building can be a necessity when sharing information, and it's hard to find a reliable service that offers premium business solutions. Mix and match these 7 tools to get the most out of a documents suite, and watch your information work for you. For some, GoogleDocs can be a personal organization savior.

Apple appears to be gearing up for a fresh assault on a market it's never done hugely well in: Enterprise.

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A team at Bing gathers every few weeks to select the photos that will appear on the homepage each day. Here's what they're looking for

What the heck is Mirosoft's "Tulalip," and what exactly is it going to be capable of? Its code name is "Tulalip," and according to a green splash page that has since disappeared from a Microsoft-owned Web address ( www.soci.com ), Tulalip is some sort of yet to be fully defined "social search" hybrid that is part application, part search engine. Again according to the disappearing splash page (which, don't worry, lives on in screen grabs republished all over the Web), the whatever-it-is would allow users to: Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you

Prodcast. That's the name of the tool Microsoft would love to get under the noses of as many tech-buying consumers as it possibly could.

Cash flow is like oxygen. If it runs out, nothing else matters.

Google+ takes its profiles public (or else), another tweet feed hacked, EU digital frontier is irrelevant? This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day

Italian cops nab Anonymous hackers, Japan finds rare earths key to electronics, Google's missing Realtime search. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day

How companies like Roku boost sales with referral marketing Roku was one of the first companies to bring online movies to people's living rooms. Three years ago, the Saratoga, California-based company started selling remote-controlled devices that can stream online media content, such as Netflix movies and Pandora radio, to TV sets.

Google in legal hot water, Big names (Apple! Microsoft! Sony!) buy big Nortel patents, Facebook battles another would-be owner, RIM's highly public executive brawl. This, and other bits of news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Broke Wiretap Laws?

An Oscar-winning producer talks about his interest in moviemaking, medicine, and scaleable (storytelling) design. Nearly 8 of out 10 Americans are willing to pay up to $100 for a medical device that monitors their vital signs, according to an IBM study that tracks trends in the use of mobile devices in health care. Fewer than 10% of respondents are paying out-of-pocket charges for such devices today, but more than one-third expect to do so within the next two years.

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