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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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    iTunes crosses language barrier with Foreign Exchange

    Brian Garrity
    Sat Jun 2, 2007 12:23pm EDT
    A customer (2nd L) discusses an Apple product with a shop assistant (C) while customers shop at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. Apple's iTunes Music Store is introducing a new original programming feature designed to promote foreign-language music in its stores around the world, Billboard has learned. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota/Files

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Apple's iTunes Music Store is introducing a new original programming feature designed to promote foreign-language music in its stores around the world, Billboard has learned.

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    The program is called Foreign Exchange. Under the initiative, two artists from different countries translate and cover each other's music in their native tongues.

    iTunes is launching the program with German electronic act Wir Sind Helden and +44, an American rock act featuring Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, formerly of Blink-182. Wir Sind Helden is covering +44's "When Your Heart Stops Beating" and +44 is covering Wir Sind Helden's "Guten Tag."

    iTunes, which has a presence in 22 countries, is offering the covers and the original versions from both artists. The covers will be available exclusively on iTunes.

    "The idea is exposing people to bands they may not listen to," Hoppus said. "In America, we don't really listen to music in other languages. I think it's a cool idea to get people to open their ears to music from different parts of the world."

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