Billionaire Munger responds to criticism of his mostly windowless mega-dorm

Critics have blasted Munger's plans as resembling a prison more than a dorm, as over 90% of the building's 4,500 students would have windowless rooms. | Continue reading


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Why Pine Nuts Are One of the Most Expensive Nuts in the World

In the remote forests of Northeastern China, local harvesters climb trees as high as 100 feet to reach this region's most valuable product: pine nuts. | Continue reading


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Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to the dictionary, here are the oddest ones

The new additions, including whataboutism and FTW, are related to internet slang, the coronavirus pandemic, politics, and pop culture. | Continue reading


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Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss

Insider's analysis of 224 Zillow-owned homes for sale in Phoenix points to challenges for the real-estate giant, one of the country's biggest iBuyers. | Continue reading


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Coinbase user lost $11.6M in 10 minutes, falling for a fake-notification

A Coinbase user bought 200 bitcoin, then got a fake notification from a scammer and lost $11.2 million, the US Attorneys Office in Los Angeles said. | Continue reading


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Facebook's problem isn't its brand – it's Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is trying to draw a line between its social media and its "metaverse" business — but with Mark Zuckerberg in charge that could be difficult. | Continue reading


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A 29-year-oldused a weird resume to get 30k interviews in a week

David Vidal wanted to get recruiters' attention, so he decided to make a resume bot that would answer any questions they'd have. | Continue reading


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Maybe the metaverse can save Facebook

Experts told Insider Facebook's rebranding and focus on the metaverse is "genius" and could distance the company from toxicity on its social platform. | Continue reading


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Chinese influencers posing in country's only Costco and pretending they're in LA

Costco's Shanghai store has seen an influx of influencers seeking a "foreign" backdrop as COVID-19 restrictions prevent them traveling abroad. | Continue reading


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How much Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos would pay under new tax plan

Democrats are targeting 700 or so billionaires and economist Gabriel Zucman has calculated what the US — and the world's — richest would pay. | Continue reading


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How to use Apple One to bundle all your Apple subscriptions together

Apple One is a bundled subscription service for several existing services from the company, like Apple Music and Apple TV Plus. | Continue reading


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Fully vaccinated now might not be considered so in future without a C-19 booster

Currently, being fully vaccinated in the US means an individual has both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the J&J vaccine. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The Facebook Papers: dozens of stories based on whistleblower docs dropped

The reports, based on Facebook documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen, ramp up the pressure on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Continue reading


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Most Americans want major changes to economy, politics and healthcare-new report

A new Pew Research Center study shows most Americans aren't happy with the state of the country as it emerges from the COVID-19 crisis. | Continue reading


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Facebook undersea cable project marred by many issues on the Oregon coast

The project finished almost two years late, and prompted Oregon to pass new legislation regulating future undersea cable projects in the state. | Continue reading


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The US is running out of cardboard and packaging materials

Retailers navigating the supply chain crisis will confront another hurdle — an even shorter supply of cardboard boxes that was already growing scarce. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk gets the greenlight to connect the Las Vegas Strip with tunnels

The Boring Company's first major urban project will be a 29-mile-long network of tunnels serving 51 stations below the Las Vegas Strip. | Continue reading


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Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plan, saying it's dystopian

Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a "metaverse company," and Dorsey responded to a tweet about the metaverse being "a dystopian corporate dictatorship." | Continue reading


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Female elephants evolved to tuskless in a few decades because of ivory poachers

During the civil war in Mozambique, armies hunted African elephants for ivory. That poaching led to an uptick in the number of tuskless animals born. | Continue reading


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Trump announces plans to launch new social media platform called TRUTH Social

Trump said he created the app, which will launch first in the Apple App Store, to "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech." | Continue reading


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Ways transportation will radically change by 2026 (2016)

Peter Diamandis, a board member of Hyperloop One, told us how advances in autonomous technology are bound to change transportation in the near future. | Continue reading


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The wealthiest Americans now own almost all of the stock market, 89% to be exact

The stock market has seen a robust recovery after a pandemic dip. The wealthiest Americans are the ones profiting. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Throws a Crazy Parade to Celebrate Windows Phone, the Death of iPhone

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A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in and got one interview

Joey Holz, whose experiment went viral, told Insider he specifically applied to businesses that were publicly complaining of a worker shortage. | Continue reading


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Facebook created its own PR nightmare

Facebook's lack of willingness to maintain healthy relationships with the media has now bitten it on the backside. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Teen girls are showing up to the doctor with tics

Many of the teen girls who developed tics were watching TikTokers who say they have Tourette Syndrome, The Wall Street Journal reported. | Continue reading


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78% of community bank executives expect the housing market to crash by 2026

Home prices have surged the most in 45 years, and community bankers fear the bubble will soon burst. Economists see little reason for such concern. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Baby boomers are snatching houses out of the hands of millennials

Baby boomers and millennials are in a housing war. A Zillow report lays out how boomers are winning, and it's really not even close. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

BMW wants customers to subscribe to use features the car already has installed

BMW's new setup is similar to Tesla's, which famously offers over-the-air updates for customers long after purchase. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

How much money YouTubers with 1M subscribers make

Creators who are a part of YouTube's Partner Program can monetize their YouTube videos with ads, with some receiving six-figure monthly paychecks. | Continue reading


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The Great Resignation is causing 'structural changes' to the workforce, BofA

Workers are rethinking what they want out of work, or just leaving altogether. BofA is waking up to the fact that it could stay that way for years. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

US weekly jobless claims slide to 293,000, a new pandemic low

Continuing claims, which track Americans receiving unemployment benefits, slid to 2.59 million for the week that ended October 2. | Continue reading


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FB seals off some internal message boards to prevent leaking, immediately leaked

Facebook is making some discussion groups private, per the NYT. It comes a week after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress. | Continue reading


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Analog astronauts simulating life on Mars for 1 month in Israeli desert

The experiment in Israel is meant to help scientists learn how to avoid mistakes that could endanger astronauts during a Mars mission. | Continue reading


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4M Workers Quit Their Job; the Post Pandemic Effects

In August, 3% of the workforce said, "I quit." It's a trend that shows no sign of slowing as workers flex their power and leave behind jobs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress

The former employee Sophie Zhang has criticized what she believed was Facebook's failure to stop authoritarian regimes from abusing its platform. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Defense Official Said He Quit Because US Cybersecurity No Match for China

Nicolas Chaillan, the US Air Force's chief software officer, quit in September, citing insufficient investment in guarding from Chinese attacks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

What Is Python

Python is a programming language known for its far-reaching applicability that goes beyond web development coding. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Facebook banned a developer for an app to let users delete their news feed

The developer Louis Barclay, who created Unfollow Everything, told Insider he was scared and anxious after receiving a cease-and-desist letter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta on hold as Elon Musk has last minute concerns

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that Full Self Driving for drivers with 'perfect' safety scores would be delayed until Sunday or Monday after concerns. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Study saying Covid-19 vaccines cause heart inflammation withdrawn over errors

The calculations in the study by researchers at The University of Ottawa were used to promote the idea that the COVID-19 vaccine is unsafe for use. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Repairs to stop a 58-story SF luxury building from sinking made it sink more

Since its opening in 2009, the $350-million Millennium Tower had already sunk 17 inches when the construction paused in late August. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Intel said it didn't consider UK for new chip-making factory because of Brexit

The boss of Intel told the BBC that before Brexit, the firm would have considered building a factory in the UK. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

I tried out Nio's ET7 autonomous EV, it felt like I's driving an airplane

Touted as the Chinese rival to Tesla, the new electric car aims to redefine the image of the country's car industry. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

What Is 'Hepeating?'

It's the new 'mansplaining.' | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

10-slide deck convinced NEA to invest $20M in its first clinops startup

Slope raised $20 million in Series A funding from NEA. It started selling to customers in 2019, according to cofounder Rust Felix. | Continue reading


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The turmoil at Apple's healthcare organization

These are Insider's biggest healthcare stories for October 5. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

AOC: Facebook's monopolistic behavior is destructive to society and democracy

AOC has been a staunch supporter of breaking up big tech. She supported Sen. Warren's plan to break it up during her 2020 presidential campaign, according to Politico. | Continue reading


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