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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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    HP purchase of EDS gets government clearance

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    An employee walks past a Hewlett-Packard logo during the second day of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong December 5, 2006. REUTERS/Paul Yeung

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's (HPQ.N) planned $12.6 billion purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corp EDS.N cleared U.S. government antitrust review, the companies said on Monday.

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    They are still waiting for approval from European regulators. EDS will hold a shareholder meeting July 31 to get clearance from its investors to seal the deal.

    Buying EDS, one of the pioneers of the outsourcing of managed computer services, would vault HP to second place in the technology services industry behind International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N).

    (Reporting by Jim Finkle; editing by John Wallace)
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