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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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    YouTube to premiere movie to up ad revenues: report

    Thu Jun 4, 2009 6:04pm EDT
    A man looks at a YouTube page in a file photo. REUTERS/Peter Jones

    (Reuters) - Google Inc's YouTube will premiere a movie, the first simultaneous Internet and theater debut, as the popular video-sharing site aims to lure advertisers and reach profitability, Bloomberg reported.

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    YouTube would premiere "Home," a film about the environment produced by Luc Besson, the agency said.

    A Paris-based partner development manager for YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, was quoted by the agency as saying, "We're more than just dogs on skateboards."

    Reuters could not immediately reach Google for comment outside regular business hours.

    (Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore, editing by Will Waterman)
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