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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 giving free iPhones to employees

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    Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:58pm EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Good news and bad news for Apple Inc.'s 18,000 employees: they are all getting free iPhones; but they will have to wait a month to get them.

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    "We're giving phones to employees at the end of July," an Apple spokesman said on Friday ahead of the launch of the device, which combines a cell phone, a Web browser and a music and video player.

    Chief Executive Steve Jobs announced the gift in a meeting with employees on Thursday. Employees will get the high-end model with 8 gigabytes of storage, worth $600.

    "That's the good news. The bad news is that he wants the first wave to go to customers. Employees will probably get their phones at the end of July," said one Apple staffer who declined to be identified.

    The total cost would be more than $10.8 million if every full-time employee receives one.

    Apple did not say if its 2,400 part-time and contract employees would also receive the phones, or if the company would pay the service costs, which range from $60 to $100 a month from exclusive provider AT&T Inc..
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