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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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    Microsoft cuts Canadian Xbox 360 console prices

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    Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:47pm EST

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    A model stands at Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 display at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo September 20, 2007. Microsoft Corp announced late on Wednesday it will cut the prices of its Xbox 360 video-game consoles as it continues to battle Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 for dominance of the gaming market. REUTERS/Issei Kato

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) announced late on Wednesday it will cut the prices of its Xbox 360 video-game consoles as it continues to battle Nintendo's (7974.OS) Wii and Sony's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 for dominance of the gaming market.

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    Microsoft said it would cut the price of the Xbox 360 console to C$349 from C$399, while the premium Elite model with a larger hard drive would drop to C$449 from C$499. The more basic Arcade model is dropping to $279 from C$299.

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    (Reporting by Wojtek Dabrowski; editing by Rob Wilson)
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