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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 says chances of Yahoo takeover negligible

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    Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:55pm EDT
    People walk past Yahoo! offices in Santa Monica, California, May 19, 2008. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

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    REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Thursday described Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O) as "a declining asset" and all but ruled out a complete takeover of the Internet company.

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    "We took the view and we still take the view that Yahoo is essentially a declining asset. We made a credibly generous bid with a very high premium because we were looking for speed," Liddell said, speaking to Wall Street analysts at the company's annual analyst meeting at its Redmond headquarters.

    He then added that the "chances of us buying Yahoo on a full acquisition basis are so small that they are essentially negligible."

    (Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi in Redmond and Paul Thomasch in Los Angeles; editing by Carol Bishopric)
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