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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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    Amazon to support Blu-ray format

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    A worker loads a shipment of outgoing boxes at the Amazon.com warehouse facility in New Castle, Delaware, November 24, 2006. Amazon.com Inc announced its support for Sony Corp's Blu-ray format on Wednesday, days after Toshiba Corp pulled the plug on the rival HD DVD format, as key studios and retailers also took Blu-ray's side. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc announced its support for Sony Corp's Blu-ray format on Wednesday, days after Toshiba Corp pulled the plug on the rival HD DVD format, as key studios and retailers also took Blu-ray's side.

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    The online retailer said it would continue to sell HD DVD products for customers who already use that format.

    Last month, Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros, which had backed both formats, voiced its exclusive support for Blu-ray.

    Since then, General Electric Co's Universal Pictures, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Best Buy Co Incand online video rental Netflix Inc have also taken Blu-ray's side.

    (Reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman; Editing by Derek Caney)
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