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Some say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg deleting Chinese dissident Liao Yiwu's Facebook account is an attempt to curry favor with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, speaks at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University in New York on Jan. 7, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Small, increasingly cheap drones have become wildly popular for recreation, and it's unclear how the FAA will regulate operators who want to use the vehicles for that purpose alone. (Associated Press)

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There is broad agreement that the world will become much more "transparent" or "public" -- but there's little or no consensus about what will happen to privacy policies, says Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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"The aluminum is supposed to act like a heat barrier, keeping the fighter's body heat from being detected by the drone camera system," says an analysis by the Middle East Media Research Institute. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

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A series of photos posted to Sarah Palin's Facebook page showed her son, Trig, standing on the family dog.

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In this Dec. 3, 2014, photo, sold sign is taped to a piano at the Foster Family Music Center piano store, in Bettendorf, Iowa. The number of stores dedicated to selling pianos is dwindling across the country as fewer people take up the instrument and those who do opt for a used piano or a less expensive electronic keyboard. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Mike Gravel at the launch of his presidential campaign in April 2006. (Wikipedia)

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Hasbro Inc. has vowed to replace a Play-Doh toy after angry parents complained the particular frosting device too closely resembled a penis. (Hasbro via Chicago Tribune)

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"Search angels" and Internet sites are helping more and more adoptees locate their biological relatives. (associated press/the daily advance)

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Video game superstars from 2014 inlcuded a Guardian from Destiny, Talion from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Delsin Rowe from Infamous: Second Son.

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Men walk by a sign in Chattanooga, Tenn., promoting it as Gig City. The city's municipal fiber optic network provides Internet speeds at more than 50 times the national average. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

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A Parrot Bebop drone (foreground) and the Skycontroller are among the many remotely controlled flying devices that have emerged as popular gifts this year. (Associated Press)

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Bruce Willis posted a video message on the United Service Organizations' website Thursday, reminding Americans to appreciate the military members spending this holiday season overseas. (YouTube/USO4Troops)

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BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville had a hard time finishing up a segment recently as he stood downwind from an opium fire. (YouTube)

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The first commander of U.S. Cyber Command, then-Army Gen. Keith Alexander, gave Congress in 2013 one of its first public overviews of how quickly an offensive cyberwarfare mindset was spreading across the Pentagon. In military parlance, it means "normalizing" cyberoperations into the daily routine. "We have no alternative but to do so because every world event, crisis and trend now has a cyber-aspect to it, and decisions we make in cyberspace will routinely affect our physical or conventional activities and capabilities as well," Gen. Alexander told lawmakers. (Associated Press)