Russian Court Hits Google With a Fine Larger Than the World’s GDP

Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Business Insider: A legal dispute between Google and Russia over suspended YouTube accounts has led to a fine so large that it exceeds all the money on Earth. Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told the state-run TASS newswire that a Russian court ordered … | Continue reading


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How to Turn Off Comments on Your Facebook Posts. | Continue reading


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Tesla Fans Upset About New Model 3 Turn Signals. | Continue reading


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Remote Work Hurts Innovation Among Work Teams Massive New Study Finds

Interesting study. Although I think there are enormous incentives for people to report this way, I'm sure there's a lot of truth to it. It sounds like the big issue is the kind of informal ideation and conversation that happens really easily when you're in a room with someone but … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 11 months ago

Peter Thiel Was an FBI Informant

This came out of left-field for me: not only Peter Thiel but also Charles Johnson are FBI informants. The former fed information about foreign influence in Silicon Valley; the latter about January 6th and related movements. There seems to be an angle of retribution here from John … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

The Great Zelle Pool Scam

In search of a status symbol, I wound up getting ripped off big-time. But the real scam is how America's payment apps treat their customers. | Continue reading


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A top Twitter manager was told that locks which opened in the case of a fire were too expensive, a lawsuit says. They were installed after he quit. | Continue reading


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Photos Show Sunken Aircraft to Promote Diving Tourism. #coralreefs | Continue reading


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The conservative Supreme Court justice has himself been accused of leaking the outcome of the 2014 Hobby Lobby case to an evangelical group. | Continue reading


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New documents reveal Jane Roberts made $10.3 million from elite firms, raising questions about the Supreme Court justices' conflicts of interest. | Continue reading


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Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet

Google, Amazon, Meta, and other big tech companies are making their core products worse and ruining everything from apps to the internet. | Continue reading


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She was a teenage girl surrounded by older men, from the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead. Now, for the first time, Jerry Garcia's widow tells her own story, and it's even wilder than we knew. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories

When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put in place to keep the craziness in check.( … | Continue reading


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Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

At Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a jerk with a grand vision. At Twitter, he's just a jerk.

Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business - he's used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into a profitable company. It's one that will take the social-media company down in f … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

The Ohio Republican praised his one-time foil at her official portrait unveiling on Capitol Hill, calling Nancy Pelosi "one tough cookie." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down

Future was the next big thing in media. Launched in June of 2021, it was billed as a buzzy new tech publication from prestigious venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz - and a way to sidestep the legacy media entirely and take the message of technological progress directly to r … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 1 year ago

Trump's posts slamming Musk and his companies came after Musk tweeted that it was time for the former president to "sail into the sunset." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried points to Coinbase as potential acquisition

The crypto trading platform has made a number of investments and acquisitions over the past year, as the market for such assets collapsed. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Oracle is quietly cutting more jobs as layoffs hit one of its cloud divisions

Oracle is making another round of job cuts. While the scope isn't clear, they're at least affecting its NACT cloud division. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Ex-TikTok moderator scrolled through child abuse and gun violence with webcam on

Colombian moderators work six days a week for $261 a month, compared with about $2,200 in the UK, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

A handful of companies control almost everything we buy (2017)

These charts show how the "illusion of choice" has become an unavoidable reality for the modern American shopper. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Typical Tesla driver is a Gen Y/Z man living in area with median income of $85k

Tesla drivers are majority male and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, a new study found. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Who in the world is Albertina Geller?

I've been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she's a deepfake created by AI. And she's not alone. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

A unopened first generation iPhone has sold for more than $39k

The first-generation iPhone from 2007 just sold at auction for more than 65 times its original retail price when it first came out. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Google is giving Apple a dose of its own Reaction medicine

Google is pushing Apple to replace SMS mobile messaging system with RCS, which can support more features. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Unions using drones and secret agents to investigate Amazon's labor practices

Labor groups are pursuing a multipronged strategy attacking Amazon as they face a tilted regulatory playing field for union elections. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

When will Mark Zuckerberg get that he needs to pull the plug on his metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg should pause, reflect, and ask himself one important question: When is enough, enough? | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta will be forced to sell GIF platform Giphy after a ruling by UK regulators

The CMA argued that the acquisition could make other social-media sites less competitive and reduce competition in the UK digital advertising market. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

The stock market crash is exposing Wall Street's biggest charlatans

The stock market plunge has unmasked Wall Street's biggest grifters — and average investors are paying the price | Continue reading


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Cancer vaccine could be available before 2030

Professors Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, the married couple who co-founded BioNTech, told the BBC that a cure for cancer "is in our grasp." | Continue reading


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Tech CEO: Overemployment Is a 'New Form of Theft and Deception'

"This isn't some fun new social trend," Canopy CEO Davis Bell wrote in a viral Linkedin post about the incidents. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Artists: AI Image Generators Can Make Copycat Images in Seconds

Artists work for years on their portfolios but people can now make copycat images using programs like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Most Metaverse users don't even make it a month, WSJ reports

Meta is struggling to keep users engaged inside the $15 billion Horizon Worlds platform, The Wall Street Journal reported. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta has burned $15B trying to build the metaverse

Meta's losses from its metaverse project continue mounting. The company says it's due to heavy spending on research, but it's light on the details. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta’s push to build avatar legs has Wall Street questioning the companys future

"So, the greatest development of burning $10 billion of cash flow on this endeavor is legs?" the Mirabaud analyst Neil Campling asked. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs

Equifax fired the remote workers in recent months as part of a probe dubbed 'Operation Home Alone' that investigated thousands staff and contractors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Twilio salaries revealed (H1B Data)

Insider analyzed hundreds of Twilio's H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much the company paid employees. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Ghostwriter Makes $200k a Year Writing Tweets for Silicon Valley Investors

Twitter is Silicon Valley's most important social club, and top investors pay me big bucks to make them look good in 280 characters. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Leaked Amazon slides instruct employees to 'double down on frugality'

Amazon overbuilt warehouses and generally grew too fast during the pandemic. With a recession looming, the internet giant is cutting back. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft military smart goggles fail 4 of 6 elements during a recent test: Army

Microsoft won a contract that may be worth as much as $22 billion to build a HoloLens-like Army device. It is getting poor marks from testers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg says he enjoys 'being doubted'

Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't "tune out" the haters because he'd miss out on some "valuable signals" to do better. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Bet Similar to Marissa Mayer's Yahoo

Zuckerberg's metaverse play isn't unusual in the tech world. It's just not one we've often seen pay off outside the world of venture capital. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to NASA tech

The complex cooling technique, developed to maintain proper temperatures in space, can deliver 4.6 times the current of other electric car chargers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Leaked memo reveals Patreon's valuation plunged 70% in the past year

Patreon, which recently laid off staff, also said in the memo that its IPO plans are on hold as the company looks to preserve cash. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Russian and US troops shook hands and took pictures together in Syria

Soldiers from Russia and the United States encountered each other while patrolling territory in Syria near the Turkish border. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Workers say Meta cancelled job offers weeks before international relocation

The engineers were part of a Meta program for people from non-traditional backgrounds. Some had quit jobs and uprooted their lives for the roles. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Company to pay $73000 for firing an employee who refused to keep webcam on

Can remote workers be forced to keep their webcams on? One employee of a Florida company was fired for turning his off — but a Dutch court has ruled he was dismissed unfairly. | Continue reading


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