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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Free, Bollore in talks with Google over WiMax: paper

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    Tue Jul 1, 2008 4:11pm EDT

    PARIS (Reuters) - French Internet service provider Free and Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in France, French daily Les Echos reports.

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    A spokesman for Iliad, the parent of Free, denied the report while the Bollore group could not be immediately reached for comment.

    Reuters received an advanced copy of the headlines of Les Echos' Wednesday edition.

    (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, additional reporting by Cyril Altmeyer in Paris, editing by Richard Chang)
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