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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's Jobs says iTunes to rent movies over Web

    SAN FRANCISCO
    Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:37pm EST

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled online movie rentals on Tuesday, beefing up the video offerings in its iTunes service in the face of increased competition.

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    Jobs said that every major movie studio supported the rentals, which would launch with more than 1,000 films in February. Rentals would cost $2.99 and $3.99, he said.

    (For more tech news see the Reuters Mediafile blog at blogs.reuters.com/mediafile)

    (Reporting by Scott Hillis and Duncan Martell; Editing by Andre Grenon)
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