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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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    Verizon staff did not listen to Obama voicemails

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    Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:42pm EST

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The contents of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's voicemail messages and emails were not breached by the Verizon employees who gained unauthorized access to his cell phone account, an Obama aide said on Thursday.

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    Verizon Wireless said some employees had viewed a personal cell phone account held by Obama that is now inactive. The company, which apologized for the incident, said the device in question was a simple voice phone, not a Blackberry or other device designed for e-mail or other data services.

    "We were notified yesterday that employees had accessed the records of an old cell phone no longer in use," the Obama aide said. "No voice or emails were listened to or read."
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