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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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    Yahoo's board wins big endorsement by shareholders

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    Fri Aug 1, 2008 6:51pm EDT

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    SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board of directors received strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with embattled Chief Executive Jerry Yang winning an 85 percent favorable vote.

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    Shareholders representing nearly 76 percent of Yahoo's 1.38 billion outstanding shares gave solid favorable votes to all nine of the company's current directors, in what represents a ringing endorsement of their tough stance with Microsoft Corp in this year's talks on a full or partial merger.

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