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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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    Toshiba to announce HD DVD pullout on Tuesday: report

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    A silhouette of a shopper is reflected in an advertisement board of Toshiba Corp's HD DVD at an electronics shop in Tokyo February 18, 2008. Japan's Toshiba Corp will announce plans to cease production and sales of HD DVD players on Tuesday, the Nikkei business daily said. REUTERS/Issei Kato

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) will announce plans to cease production and sales of HD DVD players on Tuesday, the Nikkei business daily said.

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    Toshiba, the world's No.2 maker of NAND flash memory, will also announce plans to build new NAND factories in a bid to overtake South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the paper said.

    (Reporting by Mayumi Negishi)



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