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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday posted a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit, buoyed by strong sales of its Macintosh computers and higher shipments of its iPod digital music players, results well above analyst estimates and the...

In the 1930s, physicists started discovering a whole zoo full of exotic atomic particles. There were muons and kaons and who-knows-whatelse-ons. When told of these, the famous physicist Enrico Fermi said: 'If I wanted to remember all that I would have bec...

The fugitive former chief executive of leading voicemail software maker Comverse Technology Inc. has been captured in Africa following a two-month international manhunt, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.