A free online music streaming service launched by the AARP is hoping to capitalize on a rather untapped market: Baby boomers' love of music and relative inexperience with the digital music landscape. Launched last month, the 18-channel player is programmed by the Concord Music Group, reports ... Read more...
In theory, synthetic life can be programmed to treat cancer, develop vaccines, combat climate change and create alternative fuels. Building life from scratch has been rather difficult. It took J. Craig Venter, a biologist and entrepreneur, 15 years to build the first synthetic cell made with sy... Read more...
Remember those new app rules Apple implemented a few months back that freaked out every subscription music service with an iPhone app? Well, looks like Apple has backed down. According to MacRumors, the company has "quietly changed its guidelines" and will no longer demand that developers off... Read more...
From Senator John Decamp: In mid-1993, after The Franklin Cover-Up had been circulating for almost a year, the British-based TV station, Yorkshire Television, sent a top-notch team to Nebraska to launch its own investigation of the Franklin case. Yorkshire had a contract with the Discovery Chann... Read more...
He calls it the UnCollege movement. Nineteen-year-old Dale Stephens is urging his peers to rethink the need for college, arguing that they can get more out of pursuing real-world skills than completing homework assignments and studying for exams. "I want to change the notion that a college... Read more...