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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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    Netflix and Vizio to stream films to high-def TVs

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    Wed Jan 7, 2009 8:14pm EST
    A DVD rental from Netflix is seen against the company's website in Medford, Massachusetts in this July 25, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc said on Wednesday it reached a deal for viewers to watch movies from Netflix on Vizio high definition televisions through Vizio's "Connected HDTV" Platform.

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    This follows an announcement earlier this week that new LG Electronics Inc TV sets will soon screen Netflix movies directly from the Web without an external device.

    Vizio's "Connected HDTV" platform provides plug-and-play connectivity right out of the box. VIZIO expects to ship the new TVs to retailers nationwide later this year.

    (Reporting by Sue Zeidler; editing by Richard Chang)
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