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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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    Google's purchase of Postini gets antitrust OK

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    Wed Aug 8, 2007 10:29am EDT
    The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California August 18, 2004. Google Inc. has received U.S. antitrust approval to acquire Web-based security provider Postini, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Clay McLachlan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc. has received U.S. antitrust approval to acquire Web-based security provider Postini, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

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    Antitrust authorities completed their review of the $625 million deal without taking any action to block it, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a notice.

    Last month, Google said it planned to buy Postini to expand its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Office.

    (Reporting by Julie Vorman)
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