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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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    Yahoo clears path for AOL talks: report

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    A man runs past the headquarters of Yahoo in Sunnyvale, California, May 5, 2008. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

    (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) new board on Tuesday approved a new round of discussions with Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) over the future of its AOL unit, the Financial Times said, citing a person familiar with Yahoo's thinking.

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    The green light for the talks came as Yahoo's directors met for the first time since activist investor Carl Icahn was granted access to the boardroom, the paper said.

    Active deal negotiations are not underway at this stage, the paper said.

    Yahoo could not be immediately reached for comment. (Reporting by Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore)
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