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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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    Google plans service to store users' data: report

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    A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester, central England July 20, 2007. Google Inc is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition. REUTERS/Darren Staples

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.

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    Users would be able to house files they would normally store on personal computers -- such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images -- on Google's computers, the Journal said, citing sources familiar with the matter.

    According to the Journal, the service could let users access their files through the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on using a password.

    The service could be released as soon as a few months from now, the Journal said, citing a source.

    The newspaper also said Google plans to provide some free storage, with additional storage allotments available for a fee.

    Planned pricing isn't known, the Journal added.

    Representatives of Google could not immediately be reached for comment.

    According to the Journal, a Google spokeswoman declined to comment on any specific online storage plans beyond what it already offers as part of its email and other services.

    (Reporting by Justin Grant; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
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