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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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    MySpace and Sprint land mobile partnership

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    A screen grab of MySpace.com. U.S. wireless operator Sprint Nextel Corp will make it easier for its cell phone customers to link to a free version of online social network MySpace. REUTERS/www.myspace.com

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. wireless operator Sprint Nextel Corp will make it easier for its cell phone customers to link to a free version of online social network MySpace.

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    Instead of typing the entire address, cell phone users will be able to connect to News Corp's service by clicking a link, the companies said in a joint statement.

    The deal will also include links to News Corp's other Internet properties, including FOXSports.com and IGN.

    (Reporting by Kenneth Li, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
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