WolframTones Makes Beautiful Math

WolframTones is a website where you can compose ringtones based on simple programs from Stephen Wolfram’s computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world and WolframTones then turns it into a musical composition. All the music is completely original and generated based on Wolfram’s mathematical formula. Sometimes it sounds...

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Apple Computer Squashes Beatles

Apple Computer won an annoying, drawn-out courtroom battle against the Beatles when a judge ruled the company’s iTunes Music Store did not infringe on the trademark of Apple Corps, the Beatles umbrella organization. Apple Corps argued the computer company had violated a 1991 trademark agreement by moving into the music business. Even though Apple Corps is pretty much irrelevant these days, they felt that they could extort money...

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