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AT&T and T-Mobile Are Giving Cops Geofenced Location Data

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AT&T is one of a handful of American cellphone providers complying with controversial geofence warrants. (Photo...
AT&T is one of a handful of American cellphone providers complying with controversial geofence warrants. (Photo Illustration by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)Getty Images The Department of Justice has been forcing telecoms providers like AT&T and T-Mobile to provide phone information on all customers who were in the vicini...

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Lawmakers Demand Elon Musk Provide SpaceX Internet to US Military in Taiwan

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Agroup of U.S. lawmakers are calling on Elon Musk to make SpaceX’s Starshield military-specific satellite communications...
Agroup of U.S. lawmakers are calling on Elon Musk to make SpaceX’s Starshield military-specific satellite communications network available to American defense forces in Taiwan after years of refusing to do business in the country. In a letter to Musk obtained by Forbes, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) reminded the billio...

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Employee Turnover Fueled Boeing's Quality Control Nightmare

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Workers are pictured under the wing of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner with American Airlines markings...
Workers are pictured under the wing of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner with American Airlines markings at Renton Airport adjacent to the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington on November 10, 2020.AFP via Getty Images In the last few years, when he’s walked the factory floors at aerospace parts makers, consultant Cli...

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Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)

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Manoj Bhargava. Photo by Eric Eggley. This story appears in the Feb. 27 edition of Forbes...
Manoj Bhargava. Photo by Eric Eggley. This story appears in the Feb. 27 edition of Forbes magazine. In one corner of Manoj Bhargava’s office is a cemetery of sorts. It’s a Formica bookcase, its shelves lined with hundreds of garishly colored screw-top plastic bottles not much taller than shot glasses. Front and cent...

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Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Amazon and Google

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Nvidia’s market value surpassed those of fellow technology titans Amazon and Alphabet on Monday, an almost...
Nvidia’s market value surpassed those of fellow technology titans Amazon and Alphabet on Monday, an almost unbelievable feat accomplished as Nvidia’s stock more than quadrupled over the last 15 months as investors bought into Nvidia’s market-leading position in artificial intelligence. Nvidia stock's 17,000% runup o...

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Crowd Attacks Waymo, Sets It on Fire

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Waymo car on fire in San Francisco's ChinatownSéraphine Hossenlopp via SFFD In a disturbing scene, a...
Waymo car on fire in San Francisco's ChinatownSéraphine Hossenlopp via SFFD In a disturbing scene, a crowd in San Francisco surrounded an empty Waymo Robotaxi the evening of Feb 11, then began vandalizing it and breaking its windows. At some point, the vehicle was set on fire. San Francisco Fire attended to it but t...

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Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did (2012)

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Target has got you in its aim Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details...
Target has got you in its aim Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target , for example, has figure...

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Peter Thiel Backs Doping-Friendly Olympics Rival – The 'Enhanced Games'

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Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a “modern...
Billionaire PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has invested in a drug-friendly sports contest styled as a “modern reinvention of the Olympic Games,” part of a movement embracing ways science and technology can enhance human performance that critics argue endangers both athletes’ health and sport itself. Peter Thiel, co-fo...

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CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

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Man pulling red sweater over facegetty At the onset of the pandemic, we found ourselves at...
Man pulling red sweater over facegetty At the onset of the pandemic, we found ourselves at a pivotal crossroads that compelled us to reimagine how we work. This shift was as profound as it was inevitable, marking our turn towards a new direction in reshaping the essence of our ways of working. Work from home has now...

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Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages

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Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side....
Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever. So what does this mean for you, how do you maintain privacy, and when does it begin. Google’s AI to begin analyzing private messages on Android smart...

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Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages

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Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side....
Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. Google’s AI will start to read and analyze your private messages, going back forever. So what does this mean for you, how do you maintain your privacy, and when does it begin. Google’s AI to begin analyzing private messages on...

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Ukrainian Drones Are Burning Down Russia's Oil and Gas Industry

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Russian firefighters attempting to bring under control the fire at a gas facility in Ust-Luga near...
Russian firefighters attempting to bring under control the fire at a gas facility in Ust-Luga near ... [+] St. Petersburg.Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations Last night the Russian Rosneft oil refinery at Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai was ablaze, cellphone video showing flames reaching high into the night sky. A Tel...

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Figma Offers Employees Shares and Buyouts After Collapsed Adobe Deal

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Figma CEO Dylan Field told employees they could voluntarily leave the company for three months of...
Figma CEO Dylan Field told employees they could voluntarily leave the company for three months of pay.© 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP With its $20 billion acquisition by Adobe scrapped amid heightened regulatory scrutiny, design software startup Figma is now scrambling to adjust how employees — hundreds of whom joined i...

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Eric Schmidt's 'White Stork' project to build combat drones

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Billionaire technologist Eric Schmidt has been quietly building a new drone startup in the U.S. and...
Billionaire technologist Eric Schmidt has been quietly building a new drone startup in the U.S. and Ukraine within a nesting doll of LLCs that have helped to conceal its operations and team members. Forbes first reported the project’s existence this month and has since learned that it is called White Stork, a refere...

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China's Economy Has Picked Up Traits Reminiscent of the Great Depression

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Chinese President Xi Jinping looking a touch less confident than in most pictures. (Photo by Ken...
Chinese President Xi Jinping looking a touch less confident than in most pictures. (Photo by Ken ... [+] Ishii-Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images China’s economy suffers many problems, and some are beginning to look like those that made it so hard for America to break out of its Great Depression in the 1930s. True, Chin...

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Toyota Creates Ultra-Luxury Century Brand Above Lexus

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The new Century GRMN was specced by Akio Toyoda himself for his 'Morizo Garage.'Peter Lyon At...
The new Century GRMN was specced by Akio Toyoda himself for his 'Morizo Garage.'Peter Lyon At last week’s Tokyo Auto Salon, a Toyota executive dropped a bombshell as we were standing in front of the Toyota Century GRMN (stands for Gazoo Racing Meister of Nurburgring) concept car, a bespoke SUV belonging to none othe...

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Elon Musk's Latest Robot Video Accidentally Gives Away the Magic Trick

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New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Jan 15, 2024,03:48pm EST showing the...
New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Jan 15, 2024,03:48pm EST showing the Optimus robot folding a shirt in a Tesla lab.X Elon Musk posted a new video of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus folding a shirt on Monday. And while Musk acknowledged in a follow-up tweet the robot isn’t operating auton...

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X Announces Peer-to-Peer Payment Service Will Launch in 2024

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X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, announced it would begin rolling out a...
X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, announced it would begin rolling out a peer-to-peer payment service similar to Venmo or PayPal this year—a feature the social media site’s billionaire owner Elon Musk has long pushed as part of his plan to develop an “everything app.” The social media company said ...

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Aaron Swartz and the Corrupt Practice of Plea Bargaining (2013)

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Carmen Ortiz, the federal prosecutor who hounded Aaron Swartz in the months before his Friday suicide,...
Carmen Ortiz, the federal prosecutor who hounded Aaron Swartz in the months before his Friday suicide, has released a statement arguing that "this office’s conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case." She says that she recognized that Swartz's crimes were not serious, and as a result she sought "an a...

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Attack of the Naked Short Sellers

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Working on a Secret Military Drone Project

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By Sarah Emerson and Richard Nieva, Forbes Staff Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been quietly plotting...
By Sarah Emerson and Richard Nieva, Forbes Staff Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been quietly plotting a new defense tech effort: a stealth military drone project, four sources with knowledge of the effort told Forbes. The project’s existence has not been previously reported and it has yet to publicly launch. The cla...

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Half of High School Seniors Won't Apply to Colleges Costing More Than $40k

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Eighty-nine percent of Niche survey respondents said that a college's tuition price impacts whether or not...
Eighty-nine percent of Niche survey respondents said that a college's tuition price impacts whether or not they will apply or inquire about the school. getty With Americans again struggling to repay $1.6 trillion in student debt (second only to mortgage debt), high school seniors (and their parents) are becoming inc...

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U.S. Military to 3D Print Its Way Out of Supply Chain Woes

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3D printers belonging to Marine Air Logistics Squadron 36 print mask frames and face shields for...
3D printers belonging to Marine Air Logistics Squadron 36 print mask frames and face shields for use ... [+] in the fight against COVID-19.U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Madeline Jones Keeping mission-critical supply chains running is nothing new to military operations. But when contracted manufacturing partn...

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Inside The 'Magic Radio' Protecting Russian Drones from Jamming

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Close examination shows the Hermes anti-jam communications unit is made of cheap commercial ... [+] componentsDanielR...
Close examination shows the Hermes anti-jam communications unit is made of cheap commercial ... [+] componentsDanielR via Twitter FPV drones are a signature weapon of the Ukraine conflict, and jammers to stop them are a matter of life and death. Both sides have fielded jammers and drone guns firing a beam of radio w...

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