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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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    Sony to discontinue lower capacity PlayStation 3

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    Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:43pm EDT

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    Shoppers walk out of a Calgary electronics store with the new Sony PlayStation 3 in Calgary, Alberta November 17, 2006. Sony Computer Entertainment America said on Thursday it will discontinue its lower-capacity PlayStation 3 in North America, noting it has been outsold by the higher-capacity model. REUTERS/Todd Korol

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sony Computer Entertainment America said on Thursday it will discontinue its lower-capacity PlayStation 3 in North America, noting it has been outsold by the higher-capacity model.

    The 60-gigabyte model, which has three times more storage capacity as the 20-gigabyte model, caters to gamers who also use the device to watch video and movies.

    "This is based purely on consumer and retailer demand, which favored the 60-gigabyte model 10 to 1," said David Karraker, a spokesman for Sony, the world's top video game console maker.

    He said there is a limited inventory of the 20-gigabyte units in stores. The retail price of those machines will remain at $500 until supplies are sold out.

    Sony's (6758.T)(SNE.N) 60-gigabyte PlayStation 3 retails for $600 in the United States.

    Thus far, sales of Playstation 3 have lagged rivals Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) and Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS)


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