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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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    Skype restores service after outage last week

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    A man uses a Skype internet phone next to a laptop in Taipei November 11, 2005. Internet phone service Skype restored service this weekend after a routine software upgrade left millions of users unhooked since last week. REUTERS/Richard Chung

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet phone service Skype restored service this weekend after a routine software upgrade left millions of users unhooked since last week.

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    The service, founded by the Scandinavian entrepreneurs behind file-sharing service Kazaa and now owned by online auction company eBay, restored service on Saturday and explained the outage on Monday on its Web site.

    "The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update," the company said on its blog.

    The high number of restarts revealed a bug in its network resource software, preventing a "self-healing" function of its software from working, the company said.

    Skype said no malicious activities caused the problem.
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