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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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    Google to bid for U.S. mobile airwaves

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    Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:47am EST
    A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in a file photo. Google said on Friday it will bid for coveted mobile airwaves in a move that could pit the Web search leader against U.S. wireless service providers. REUTERS/Darren Staples

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it will bid for coveted mobile airwaves in a move that could pit the Web search leader against U.S. wireless service providers.

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    The Silicon Valley-based company said it will submit a formal application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday.

    Google's application to bid for the 700-megahertz wireless spectrum does not include any partners.

    (Reporting by Kenneth Li)



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