Actor/comedian Mike Epps and his wife Michelle Epps are focusing improving the lives of at risk youth through literacy arts as apart of a new campaign. The husband and wife team have launched the Michael and Mechelle Epps Foundation to help educate the millions of Americans who cannot read or... Read more...
Total US tech R&D spending as a percentage of GDP is below where it was for much of the 1960s, according to Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker's analysis of USA Inc. That's mostly because government spending on tech research is way down. Right now, private investment is almost making up f... Read more...
An intriguing report on German news site Heise.de on Monday unveiled a cheap monitor that includes built-in PC functionality. The Acer DX241H is an otherwise standard 1920x1080 pixel HDMI monitor, but it also features an operating system running on top of an ARM Cortex-A8 chip--the same processo... Read more...
Well, that didn't take long. JP Morgan has officially raised $1.2 billion for a digital growth fund, which will invest in late-stage tech startups. That's about double the amount that the fund was previously reported to be raising. It's not clear whether the previously reported amount was wro... Read more...
For one reason or another, there is still some perception of what a hip-hop producer should look like today. Backstage at the pre-telecast show for the 53rd Grammy Awards on Sunday afternoon, Alexander Shuckburgh, better known by his producing name Al Shux, spent most of his time convincing re... Read more...