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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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    Sprint to offer NFL coverage on cell phones

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    Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:20pm EST
    A hostess holds the Motorola Q9 mobile at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, February 15, 2007. REUTERS/Albert Gea

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Tuesday it would offer live coverage of key moments in National Football League games on its cell phones.

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    It said the coverage would involve all football games televised by the NFL Network in 2007. Sprint said that more than 1 million of its customers had already downloaded NFL related content to their phones.

    (Reporting by Sinead Carew)



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