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Tarkov fans are upset about the new edition of the game. Credit: Battlestate Games Earlier today the Unheard Edition of Escape From Tarkov was announced as part of the latest patch, promising a brand new player versus environment mode and other bonuses. Now that the edition has launched, fans are not happy with the ...

InFebruary, hundreds of people converged on Sand Hill Road for a party thrown by Andreessen Horowitz and the defense contractor Anduril to send a loud message: America is under threat and now is the time to build. Many attendees were tracking the arrival of a group of mostly male twenty-something entrepreneurs who c...

Casey Evertsen drove down a suburban Utah street lined with trash bins, speaking into his phone’s camera as he gave a tour of the brightly-colored truck he uses for his garbage can-cleaning business. “If you like seeing dirty stuff get cleaned and watching how cool stuff works, follow along,” he said in the video sh...

What is the story behind AT&T's 1993 "You Will" ads that so accurately predicted the future of technology? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Glen Kaiser, Director (Company) at AT&T, on Quora: What is ...

Deborah Mannis-Gardner doesn’t rap or produce, but you’ll likely spy her on more album credits than all of the 808 mafias combined. One of America’s leading clearance agents, Deborah has spent 20 years dodging red tape to acquire music for film, samples and video games. Her role includes hunting obscure records, che...

Former National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers is pictured before President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden spoke about Middle Class Working Families Task Force, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Copyright 2009 AP. All rights re...

Gauth is a mobile app, owned by ByteDance, that offers homework help to students.getty Gauth AI, an app that uses generative AI to help school-aged children do their homework, has surged in popularity in recent months, skyrocketing to #2 in the Education category in both Apple and Google’s app stores. Owned by ByteD...

Parisians rides their bicycles near the Eiffel Tower. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)Getty Images Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of transportation cyclists. The survey of how people now move in Paris was conducted with GPS trackers by academics from L’Institut Paris Région, th...

Updated Apr 5, 2024, 08:16am EDT Apple laid off more than 600 workers in California, the company disclosed in a set of filings with the state’s Employment Development Department published on Thursday, weeks after reports of the company canceling its self-driving car project and in-house efforts to build Apple Watch ...

Aeroprakt A-22.Leighnor Aircraft photo To pull off one of its deepest strikes ever targeting Russia’s strategic industries, the Ukrainian government took a locally-made ultralight sport plane, swapped its manned controls for robotic controls and packed it with explosives. Video of the emergency response following th...

Hundreds of artists including legendary musicians Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the estates of Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra on Tuesday signed an open letter from the Artist Rights Alliance calling on the developers of artificial intelligence technologies to stop training copycat programs and using AI-produced so...

Personal information—including Social Security numbers—from about 73 million AT&T customers was leaked on the dark web earlier this month, the company said Saturday, though the source of the data is still under investigation, as it’s not known whether the leak came from within the company or one of its vendors. The ...

Stability AI founder and former CEO Emad Mostaque.PHOTO BY LEVON BISS FOR FORBES Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque took the stage last week at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California to roaring applause and an introduction from an AI-generated Aristotle who announced him as “a modern Prometheus” with “the a...

My colleague-in-blogging Ethan Siegel does a regular reader-request feature, and this week's edition drifts into my territory, answering a question about using quantum entanglement for faster-than-light communication. As I jokingly said on Twitter, Ethan's answer is pretty good for an astronomer, but there are bits ...

An anonymous portrait of a human teleporting into a different world with the help of an AI.getty A Wisconsin man has been charged with sharing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with a minor, one of the first criminal cases involving AI-generated CSAM. La Crosse County prosecutors allege that Steven And...

Emad Mostaque, founder and chief executive officer of Stability AI© 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque plans to step down as CEO of the generative AI startup, Forbes has learned. Mostaque disclosed his plans in private to industry peers earlier this week at the Abundance360 conference in Lo...

The government orders show an "unconstitutional" overreach by the government, multiple privacy experts said.AFP via Getty Images Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple court orders obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multip...

This article is more than 2 years old.Updated Jan 12, 2022, 02:55am EST Though Netflix pledged in 2019 to eliminate depictions of smoking in new original programming aimed at younger viewers, the streaming giant continued to include hundreds of tobacco depictions in The Queen’s Gambit, The Umbrella Academy and other...

Stability has struggled after raising a $100 million seed round in 2022.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Key members of the artificial intelligence research team that developed Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generation model that helped catalyze the AI boom, have resigned from British AI unicorn Stability...

Bitcoin BTC and major cryptocurrencies—including ethereum and XRP XRP —have fallen sharply as traders brace for a correction (and a potentially brutal Biden administration crackdown). Subscribe now to Forbes' CryptoAsset & Blockchain Advisor and "uncover blockchain blockbusters poised for 1,000% plus gains" ahead of...

London, UK - July 31, 2018: The buttons of the app Reddit, surrounded by Pinterest, Whatsapp, and ... [+] other apps on the screen of an iPhone.getty Reddit, (RDDT), should start trading as a newly public company sometime in March. At the reported valuation of $5 billion or higher, Reddit earns an Unattractive Stock...

After the arson, the Waymo was badly burnt, but drives under the rear trunk might survive, ... [+] particularly if protected.Séraphine Hossenlopp via SFFD Waymo has recently seen good news, with the quick approval of their application to serve large service areas in the San Francisco and Los Angeles. They also recen...

Rail lines lead to production facilities and old equipment in a yard at the closed Vallourec SACA ... [+] pipe plant in Düsseldorf, Germany, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2023. In some cases, Germany's industrial downshift is taking place in small steps, others are more evident like shifting production lines and trimming staf...

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 12: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), center, joins Maximus Federal Call Center ... [+] workers at a protest calling on the Biden Administration for higher wages and good federal jobs outside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on December 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morig...