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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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    EA sells music from video games via Apple's iTunes

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    Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:04pm EST
    A screenshot of www.ea.com/eatrax, taken on March 1, 2007. Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, on Thursday began offering music from its titles through Apple Inc.'s popular iTunes online download store. REUTERS/www.ea.com/eatrax

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc., the world's biggest video game publisher, on Thursday began offering music from its titles through Apple Inc.'s popular iTunes online download store.

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    The move from EA comes as game makers explore ways to use the Internet to distribute, sell and market games and other content.

    EA said songs will be priced like others on the system at 99 cents each. The company, which is also offering ringtones for $2.99, already sells games like "Tetris" and "Sudoku" on iTunes for $4.99.

    A list of available music is at www.ea.com/eatrax, which links users to iTunes.

    Since video games are popular with the same younger consumers sought by musicians, acts like Good Charlotte, Jet, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, Arctic Monkeys and Fabolous have teamed with EA to help launch their careers.
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