RTI International (formerly Research Triangle Institute) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina that provides research and technical services.TI competes with the three universities that form the research triangle and other research institutes for contracts. It bids on $2 billion in research contracts a year and wins approximately 40 percent of the budget it bids on.
A rapper went to prison for 5 years, and here's the technology he couldn't believe when he got out. Rapper Lil Boosie, 32, spent five years in Louisiana State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to drug charges. But when he was released in March 2014, the outside world was a different place. Lil Boosie went to prison in 2009, but Instagram and FaceTime didn't launch until 2010, making the technologies the most mind-blowing things the rapper has seen since his release. I was surprised when I looked on my iPhone and you could look at people and talk on the phone at the same time, he told TMZ after his release.
That teardrop tattoo under a California felon's ice blue left eye is probably glistening right now. Hot Convict Jeremy Meeks, who became an Internet sensation when ladies liked the gangbanger's sexy mug shot, went from hot property to hard time when he was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. The 30-year-old Meeks was arrested during a gang sweep June 18 for gun possession in Stockton, Calif.