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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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    News Corp not interested in Yahoo: source

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    Fri Feb 1, 2008 3:02pm EST

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp is not interested in bidding for Yahoo Inc, a News Corp source said on Friday.

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    Microsoft Corp on Friday offered to buy Yahoo for $31 a share, or about $44.6 billion, valuing the company at a 62 percent premium.

    News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch held early discussions to combine News Corp's MySpace social network with Yahoo last year, but talks ended after Terry Semel stepped down as Yahoo CEO.

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