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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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    Telekom Austria in talks to cut 1,700 jobs: paper

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    Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:47am EDT

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    VIENNA (Reuters) - Telekom Austria (TELA.VI) is in talks with unions to cut 1,000 of 9,000 jobs in its wireline unit this year and up to 700 more in 2009, Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse reported over the weekend.

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    The company aims for concluding talks with the unions over the next weeks and present the proposal -- which includes measures such as golden handshakes and early retirements -- at its supervisory board meeting on August 19, Die Presse said.

    Telekom Austria declined to comment on the report.

    (Reporting by Boris Groendahl; Editing by Erica Billingham)
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