When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

If you asked a cross-section of the UK population whether they knew solfège, the vast majority of them would say no. But start singing the words ‘Doe, a deer, a female deer’, and it’s a safe bet that ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...

Sharon Stone is giving her take on the Basic Instinct reboot in the works and sounds weary about it. During a recent interview, Stone was asked about the reboot writer Joe Eszterhas is working on and ...

Looking back on her infamous "Basic Instinct" leg-crossing scene, Sharon Stone says she wouldn’t take it out, despite having had the legal right to do so at the time. "It made me an icon, but it ...

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. The global economy stands at an inflection point. While ...

Delta is overhauling its ticket offerings in a bid to give customers "greater choice and more customization." miglagoa - stock.adobe.com Delta is grounding Basic Economy. The airline is overhauling ...

About three in five college students experienced some level of basic needs insecurity during the 2024 calendar year, according to survey data from Trellis Strategies. Over half (58 percent) of ...