Ashton Kutcher will take on the role of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. April Fool's Day has passed. This is no joke.

Variety.com says the biographic film will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern perhaps best known for "Swing Vote."

Understandably when the story broke it was treated with a dose of April Fool's salt. Author Jeff Sneider confirmed the report is true via Twitter. Variety considered holding the story because of April Fool's Day, but had concerns of being scooped.
 

Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates talks to ABC News' Bill Weir about his personal encounters with Steve Jobs.

Up All Night (8pm, NBC) - Reagan tries to improve her relationship with her parents (Blythe Danner and Richard Schiff) in order to set an example for Amy. Elsewhere, Ava examines her interactions with the staff following one member's death.

Modern Family (9pm, ABC) - Gloria persuades Jay to commit to a night of salsa dancing after seeing how much his friend Shorty (Chazz Palminteri) and his girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly) do together. Meanwhile, Cameron makes a bet that he can get a woman's phone number at a bar, and Phil builds a tree house for Luke.

Happy Endings (9:30pm, ABC) - Brad sneaks off on a secret staycation at a plush hotel in the city in order to dodge a visit from Jane's sorority sister. Also, Max and Dave shoot a commercial for a lunch truck. Brent Musburger and Fred Savage (who directed the episode) have cameos as themselves.

American Horror Story (10pm, FX) - In the conclusion to last week's two-part Halloween story arc, Tate (Evan Peters, pictured, with Jessica Lange and Frances Conroy) comes face to face with his ugly past. Yes, we finally learn his backstory. And it's good. Also, Ben and Vivien are haunted by a freshly ghosted houseguest.

Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (10pm, UNC-TV) - A profile of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs includes an archival interview with Jobs in which he discusses his career and the principles that led to his success. Also, colleagues offer thoughts on his talents and achievements.

Psych (10pm, USA) - Shawn and Gus try to identify the masked vigilante the Mantis, who is trying to take down a drug ring that the police department is also targeting.

Top Chef: Texas (10pm, Bravo) - Season 9 opens with 29 chefs invading Texas to prove their culinary worth, but nearly half of them are eliminated in the first episode.

UNC-CH computer science professor Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. met a young and personable Steve Jobs brimming with self confidence even back in 1985. The two were in Washington, D.C. to receive National Medals of Technology.

While waiting for the ceremonies to begin in a back room of the White House, Brooks mentioned to Jobs that he had replaced an Apple II which he loved with an Apple III that had proven to be problematic. Jobs promptly offered to replace Brooks' buggy Apple with a new Macintosh, the computer credited with popularizing the graphical interface.

Brooks says a personal computer would have come without Steve Jobs, but his visionary influence and creative instincts helped define what we know today. "Jobs could imagine what a product ought to be," said Brooks.  "He did that with the Apple II, the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and the iPad."

Brooks continued to correspond with Jobs over the years. Jobs may have passed, but that Macintosh he gave Brooks lives on doing an occasional demonstration duty.

With the team Jobs assembled and the culture he left behind, expect Apple to be around a while longer too.

A Blue Devil is taking charge at Apple.

Tim Cook, the technology company's new CEO, earned an MBA from Duke University in 1988 and was a Fuqua scholar.

Sports fans take note: The Alabama native also has an engineering degree from Auburn University, and his loyalties reportedly are tied mostly to the Tigers.

Apple announced late Wednesday that Cook, 50, has replaced its iconic CEO Steve Jobs, who has battled health issues for years. Cook became acting CEO in January, and has overseen day-to-day operations since 2007 when he was promoted to chief operating officer.

Cook also has ties to Big Blue. He joined Apple in 1998 from Compaq Computer, but had previously spent 12 years at IBM, mostly at that company's massive campus in Research Triangle Park.

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has authorized a biography from Walter Isaacson called "iSteve: The Book of Jobs."

Publisher Simon & Schuster made the announcement Sunday, but shared no other details other than to expect the book in 2012. The unfortunately titled biography will join a long list of books on Steve Jobs, but is the only one with Job's approval.

If you are amused by Isaacson's title, "iSteve: The Book of Jobs," then may also enjoy "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon.

Here is a partial list from the heap of Jobs biographies, some with similar titling offenses:

- iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon
- Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple by Michael Moritz
-The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation by Jay Elliot and William L. Simon
- Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists) by Mike Venezia
- Inside Steve's Brain, Expanded Edition by Leander Kahney
- Steve Jobs: The Apple of Our i by Daniel Alef
- Steve Jobs: The Brilliant Mind Behind Apple (Life Portraits) by Anthony Imbimbo
- The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman

Mentions of HTML5 have cropped up lately. Steve Jobs is using it in his
quest to destroy Flash. YouTube and Vimeo have launched HTML5 options.

Jonathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has posted a some dark tales from the dark underbelly of the software industry.

Things change and so do our perspectives, but I would be interested to hear Steve Job's explain the polarity of these contradictory statements.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has cast "Steve Jobs" and "Richard Branson" in a lighthearted spoof, "Undercover Celebrity Boss." The Olsen twins and Martha Stewart also get parodied.