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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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    Microsoft launches video on Messenger

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    Mon May 12, 2008 12:38pm EDT
    A woman uses Microsoft's Messenger software with new video capabilities in an undated handout photo released to Reuters on May 12, 2008. REUTERS/Microsoft/Handout

    LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger.

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    The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.

    The firm hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks.

    "Online video has exploded in popularity over the last year, but to date it has been something people watch on their own. Messenger TV is set to change all that," said John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft.

    "Watching video online can now be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions."

    The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.

    (Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
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