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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 says confident in 2008 iPhone sales goal

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    Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:51pm EDT

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) expects to hit its goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said on Wednesday.

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    "We are very pleased with iPhone momentum and we remain confident of achieving our goal of selling 10 million iPhones in calendar 2008," Oppenheimer told a conference call after the company reported second-quarter financial results.

    (Reporting by Scott Hillis; Editing by Braden Reddall)



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