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  • More than half the top U.S. tech firms use structures to cut their tax bills that some governments want to change.

    LAST UPDATE : Jul 23, 2013, 11:21 AM EDT
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  • This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia in July 2010 and right, the entrance to the Universal Studios theme park in Los Angeles, on Dec. 3, 2009.

    Comcast's $16.7 billion deal to buy the remaining half of NBCUniversal ahead of schedule represents a resounding vote of confidence in the future of TV.

    LAST UPDATE : Feb 13, 2013, 5:57 PM EST
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  • The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 11, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
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  • SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper.

    The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer.

    The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 11, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
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  • A new way of making nuclear fuel with lasers may help cut costs and ensure energy security but could also make it easier for rogue states to secretly build nuclear weapons if they got hold of the know-how.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 09, 2012, 10:30 PM EST
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