We’re used to seeing books released as iOS apps, and a number of musicians have used iPhone apps as a way of releasing music. Now it seems like the next step is iPad-specific music releases. Universal Music Group recently launched iPad apps based around classic albums fromNirvana,RushandThe Rolling Stones. Although they featured video documentary clips and social features, they don’t include the actual full songs themselves. Now EMI is going a step further and releasing an album by dance act Swedish House Mafia’s in its entirety as an app....

Due for launch in the mid-2020s, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is destined to become one of the great planet-hunting telescopes. Although the main mirror at the heart of the Roman Telescope is no larger than the one in the Hubble Space Telescope, the Roman mirror is just 25 percent as massive as its predecessor. With a wider field of view greater than Hubble, this next-generation telescope, formerly known as WFIRST, may discover 100,000 worlds orbiting other stars....

If multiple reports are to be believed, Nokia is on the brink of adopting either Windows Phone 7 or Android – which way will it jump though? It seems mobile network operators would prefer it avoided Google’s OS. With poorly receivedfinancial resultslast week and declining market share, Nokia clearly needs to do something. Unconfirmedwordfrom inside the company is that CEO Stephen Elop is considering ditching either Symbian or MeeGo. Supporting two homegrown operating systems is a significant financial responsibility so adopting someone else’s OS must surely be tempting....

As a result of the extended period of socioeconomic uncertainty caused by coronavirus, interest in open banking is growing. Customers want to have greater management and oversight of their finances, and financial institutions seeopen banking and PSD2as a way to facilitate that. With greater collaboration and data sharing between traditional banks and fintechs, there’s a lot of opportunity to deliver a more personalized customer experience. The concern around open banking APIs, however, is how much it could compromise data security....

There’s no proof you’re going to die. Don’t take that the wrong way; there’s a lot of evidence. But proof is for math, and death is only certain in retrospect. That’s why any research that pushes the boundaries of what we can observe, test, and replicate when it comes to the wacky world of quantum mechanics is exciting.Spooky action at a distancecould be our ticket to immortality. An international team of researchers recentlypublished workdemonstrating quantum entanglement at an unprecedented macro-scale....