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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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    Microsoft resumes Windows 7 test downloads

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    Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:10pm EST
    Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp CEO announces the release of the Windows 7 operating system as he delivers the pre-show keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2009.

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp launched downloads of the public test version of its new version of Windows on Saturday, after a one-day delay due to overwhelming demand.

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    The "beta" launch of the highly anticipated update to Microsoft's Windows franchise was to began on Friday, but the company had to halt downloads to add more servers.

    A Microsoft spokesman said on Monday that the company did not yet have a tally of how many copies of the program have been downloaded.

    However, it has eliminated its limit of 2.5 million copies for the first two weeks of availability, to allow more people to get a copy.

    Microsoft, the world's biggest maker of software, has said Windows 7 would incorporate touch-screen technology and allow users to more easily personalize the system. It promised more user-friendly features, such as a new taskbar that previews all open windows from a single application by hovering over the program's icon.

    (Reporting by Franklin Paul; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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