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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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    Rock the Vote, MySpace start competition

    Wed Jul 2, 2008 4:25am EDT
    MySpace.com is seen in a screen grab. REUTERS/www.myspace.com

    DENVER (Billboard) - Rock the Vote and MySpace have struck a deal that combines grass-roots voter registration drives with music promotion and live events.

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    Through the DemROCKracy band competition, which runs through August 14, any artist with a MySpace profile can add a Rock the Vote widget to encourage fans to register to vote.

    The first 25 bands to rack up 150 new registered voters will have their music added to a playlist distributed by digital jukebox network TouchTunes.

    The band that registers the most voters and wins an online poll will open the Rock the Vote party at the Democratic National Convention on August 25 in Denver, which will be rebroadcast on AT&T's Blue Room, as well as other prizes.

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