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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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    Apple says sells two million copies of "Leopard"

    Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:55am EDT
    An undated screenshot of Apple's ''Leopard'' operating system. Apple Inc said it sold more than two million copies of the latest version of its operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, since its release on Friday. REUTERS/Courtesy of Apple/Handout

    (Reuters) - Apple Inc said it sold more than two million copies of the latest version of its operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, since its release on Friday.

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    Leopard introduces new features to Apple PCs, including automatic backup, a quick way to browse and share files over multiple Macs, and a new way to see files without opening an application, the company said in a statement.

    (Reporting by Dilipp S. Nag in Bangalore)



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