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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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    TiVo gets $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar

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    Thu Oct 9, 2008 2:23pm EDT
    A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected TiVo digital video recorder at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2006. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - TiVo Inc said on Thursday it has received the $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar Corp that it won this week when the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal of a patent infringement case.

    TiVo said in a statement that it received the damages on Wednesday, following the Supreme Court's decision on Monday not to review an appellate court's ruling.

    The dispute between TiVo and EchoStar stemmed from a battle over TiVo's "Time Warp" software, which allows users to record a program and watch another one at the same time via a digital video recorder.

    A ruling is still pending from U.S. District Judge David Folsom in Texas on whether EchoStar owes TiVo more damages for allegedly failing to turn off its DVRs, as required in an injunction. TiVo said it expects further damages.

    (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)


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