Early Facebook investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel thinks college is overhyped. Now he's giving 24 kids a tempting alternative to higher education. Thiel is going to pay some big-dreaming teenagers $100,000 over the course of two years to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. His pool... Read more...
A breakthrough in foldable OLED screen tech means a display can be folded in half like a sheet of paper without creasing. It's no exaggeration to say this could change every mobile device's design. Foldable computer displays have been the stuff of sci-fi legend for ages, and numerous devi... Read more...
Children in Haiti are being sold for as little as 76 pence each (pennies) by traffickers taking advantage of the chaos from last year's earthquake, new figures from Unicef show. Some youngsters are ending up in the care of well meaning but ignorant European families, while others are being forced... Read more...
Stephen Smith was one of the wealthiest Afrian-Americans in the United States. He was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and went on to build an empire that included the Smith, Wipper and Company Lumber and Coal yard. He was a leading agent on the Underground Railroad when he was living in Columbia. I... Read more...
A scientist has discovered 34,000-year-old bacteria buried underneath a Californian desert. The discovery was made after researchers dug up salt crystals below Death Valley in Eastern California for climate research. Ancient microbes were found trapped inside tiny, fluid-filled chambers with... Read more...
5 comments,
12/01/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in download,
Industry Rule #4080,
Music,
News,
World News
While there was plenty of dispiriting news in Nielsen SoundScan's year-end numbers for 2010, there were a couple of bright spots: For one, rap music made a big comeback last year, driven by the top-selling album of the year, Eminem's "Recovery," and the non-traditional store sector became the No. ... Read more...
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16/12/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in #FunniestThingYou'reGonnaSeeAllDay,
Comedy,
News
This is what I was talking about on twitter the other night... Oh & by the way, the album is projected to sell 65,000 first week...somebody wasted a lot of diddy dirty money. TREY SONGZ, FABOLOUS & KEVIN HART (WITH THE HELP OF THE FIRE CHICK) DO FULL RE-ENACTMENT BELOW.... (more&... Read more...
2 comments,
16/12/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Industry Rule #4080,
Lawsuits,
News,
World News
The Bay Area rapper claims NBC stole an idea from him. Rapper Paris has filed a lawsuit against a producer, NBC Networks and Warner Brother Pictures, according to Allhiphop.com. A lawsuit filed on December 7th indicates that Paris is accusing the defendants of stealing the concept for "Your Sc... Read more...
Pregnant women who regularly use mobile phones could increase the risk of their children behaving badly, claims a startling survey. If their offspring then start using the devices at an early age, the chance of problems climbs to 50 per cent, according to researchers. They found those ... Read more...