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Sex, love and robots: is this the end of intimacy?

Except Futurama’s 2001 episode “I Dated a Robot”, with its post-apocalyptic world of silvers and blues, wildly overes​timated how long it would take before this fear became flesh.

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Brazilian Finance Minister cancels participation in G20 at last minute

​Brazil's Minister of Finance Joaquim Levy hastily cancelled his participation at the G20 Summit starting Thursday in Turkey, where all the finance ministers from the top 20 economies in the world gathered to have a meeting.

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Brazil's poor GDP results reflect economic uncertainty: minister

Brazil's negative GDP results in the first quarter of 2015 are a reflection of recent economic uncertainty, Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said Friday.

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Nothing "problematic" about Brazil's economy: official

Brazil's under-performing economy is fundamentally sound and is simply undergoing some "re-engineering," Finance Minister Joaquim Levy said Monday.

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Brazilian president names new economic team

​Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday nominated members of the economic team for her second presidential term starting from January 2015.