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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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    U.S. approves AT&T buy of ad technology firm Ingenio

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    Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:59pm EST

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust authorities have approved telephone company AT&T's (T.N) purchase of the advertising technology firm Ingenio, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

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    The FTC included the deal on a list of approved mergers that it releases periodically. AT&T announced the deal last month without disclosing the terms.

    AT&T Inc bought Ingenio to boost its directories business and compete more directly with Google Inc (GOOG.O). Ingenio's technology, called "pay per call," allows companies to post online advertisements and pay fees depending on how many phone calls they receive.

    (Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Andre Grenon)
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