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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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    FCC approves Sirius Satellite acquisition of XM

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    Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:47pm EDT
    A woman walks past the waiting area of the XM Satellite Radio building after the U.S. Justice Department approved that Sirius Satellite Radio's $4.59 billion purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio would be given antitrust clearance in Washington, March 25, 2008. XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio said they could pay up to $19 million to settle past compliance issues with federal regulators, a move that helps clear the way for U.S. Federal Communications Commission approval of their merger. REUTERS/Larry Downing

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc was approved with conditions by U.S. communications regulators on Friday, clearing the way for a deal that will leave just one U.S. satellite radio service.

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    The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in favor of a proposal that would allow the deal to proceed as long as the companies meet a series of consumer protection conditions, including a three-year cap on prices, set-aside of channels for minority and non-commercial programming and payment of a $19.7 million penalty for past FCC rule violations.

    (Reporting by Peter Kaplan: Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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