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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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    Slate may start business news Web site: source

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    Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:49pm EDT
    A screenshot of Slate.com, taken on October 31, 2007. Slate, the online news and opinion magazine owned by The Washington Post Co, may launch a business news and opinion Web site, according to a source familiar with the matter. REUTERS/Slate.com

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Slate, the online news and opinion magazine owned by The Washington Post Co, may launch a business news and opinion Web site, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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    The site would be the latest in the growing ranks of business news outlets, joining other start-ups such as Conde Nast Portfolio, at a time when many U.S. magazines and newspapers are retrenching amid a prolonged advertising decline and falling circulation.

    Cliff Sloan, Slate's publisher, declined to comment on the Web site's plans.

    The New York Observer reported on Wednesday that the site is awaiting final authorization from Post Co executives and that it could go live as early as next summer.

    Slate was launched in 1996 by Michael Kinsley, a former New Republic magazine editor and former host of CNN's Crossfire television program, as well as former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times.

    Run by Microsoft Corp for several years, Slate features a large stable of opinion writing on politics and culture.

    Its editor is Jacob Weisberg, a former writer for Newsweek magazine, also owned by The Washington Post Co, and its staff includes journalism critic Jack Shafer and literary editor Meghan O'Rourke, a former editor at The New Yorker magazine.

    (Reporting by Robert MacMillan)
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