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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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    Apple Inc. downplays Beatles "speculation"

    Tom Ferguson
    Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:04am EDT
    A portrait of Beatle Paul McCartney hangs on the wall in one of the rooms at the newly opened Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool, England February 1, 2008. Apple Inc has dismissed claims in the U.K. press that the Beatles catalog is about to be made available online through the computer giant's iTunes Music Store as ''unsubstantiated speculation.'' REUTERS/Phil Noble

    LONDON (Billboard) - Apple Inc has dismissed claims in the U.K. press that the Beatles catalog is about to be made available online through the computer giant's iTunes Music Store as "unsubstantiated speculation."

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    Reports on Friday suggested that unnamed sources "close to Sir Paul McCartney" had confirmed that the Beatles catalog would be available online though iTunes and other legal services "within months." However, the claim has been met with a string of "no comments" from the Beatles' own label Apple Corps, and EMI. "This is not news nor is it a scoop," says an Apple Inc. spokesman, declining further comment.

    Efforts to clear the Beatles' music for digital distribution had long been delayed by a trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps., which was finally resolved in February, 2007.

    Olivia Harrison, widow of Beatles guitarist George, told Reuters last June that the surviving band members McCartney and Ringo Starr plus the representatives of her late husband and John Lennon were in agreement that the material should be made available. At that time, an early 2008 release was suggested as likely.

    McCartney , whose solo catalog is already available on-line, told Billboard.com in November that "It's down to fine-tuning, but I'm pretty sure it'll be happening next year, 2008."

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