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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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    SAP CEO says hasn't talked with Microsoft on sale

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    BOSTON (Reuters) - SAP AG (SAPG.DE) Chief Executive Henning Kagermann said on Tuesday he has had no discussions with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) about selling the German software company.

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    Kagermann was responding to a question at a news conference in Boston. Shares of SAP had risen in European trade on Monday on speculation that Microsoft might make a bid for the company. Officials of both companies had declined to comment that day.

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