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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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    Facebook near settlement of lawsuit: report

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    Tue Apr 8, 2008 2:16am EDT
    A Facebook profile is seen in a handout photo. REUTERS/Handout

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook is wrapping up the settlement of a lawsuit brought against it by former Harvard students who claim that the idea for the site was originally theirs, the New York Times reported.

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    Motions to dismiss the case against Facebook were expected within weeks, the New York Times said on its Web site, quoting a person briefed on the talks.

    Facebook was founded in 2004 as a social site for students at Harvard University and spread quickly to other colleges and eventually into workplaces.

    But the lawsuit brought by a group of former Harvard students revolves around accusations, strongly denied by Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg, that he stole ideas while he was hired by them to write code for a site called Harvard Connection.

    A spokeswoman for Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

    (Reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman; additional reporting by Eric Auchard; Editing by Paul Bolding)
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