The biggest movie of the weekend was a $200M Chinese blockbuster

"Venom: Let There Be Carnage" broke a pandemic record in the US, but Chinese films like "The Battle at Lake Changjin" are still doing bigger business. | Continue reading


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Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say

One ICU doctor said the US should take note: "We Brazilians had to learn in the hardest way that ivermectin didn't work." | Continue reading


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Scientific why attractive people are more successful in life

Attractive people get paid more, get considered for more jobs, and have stronger social skills than unattractive people, according to science. | Continue reading


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TikTok's Reading Renaissance Is Making Old Books Bestsellers

"Many authors I follow say their sales have never been as high as they are now, thanks to BookTok," user Sydney Blanchard told Insider. | Continue reading


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Blue Origin employees say they wouldn't feel safe riding the company's rockets

A letter from 21 current and former Blue Origin employees says the company ignored safety concerns in favor of making the progress Jeff Bezos wants. | Continue reading


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YouTube Bans All Anti-Vaxx Content, Including High-Profile Influencers

YouTube's ban of all content claiming commonly-used vaccines are harmful or don't work marks a major change in how it moderates potentially harmful content. | Continue reading


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I got to drive the Rivian R1T. It redefines what a truck can be

Rivian's R1T is the first electric pickup of the modern era. It drives like nothing else, packs tons of exciting features, and deliveries start this month. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Trump associates tried to get the VA to sell vets medical records for profit

The trio, who were based out of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, discussed selling the data with Johnson & Johnson and Apple in 2017, new emails show. | Continue reading


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Dropbox's Drew Houston says the 40-hour office week is a thing of the past

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told CNN that certain workers could escape the "grueling commutes" of the past and gain more control over their days. | Continue reading


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YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos

Wojcicki said free speech was a 'core value,' but that there were 'multiple considerations' when dealing with a country like Russia. | Continue reading


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Airbnb bookings are expected to take a hit from the Delta variant following a pandemic recovery earlier this year

After a strong performance over the summer, Airbnb is gearing up for possible impacts of the Delta variant in the fall and stagnating COVID vaccination numbers. | Continue reading


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Former engineer says button on iPhones asking apps not to track you is a 'dud'

The iPhone feature allowing users to "ask app not to track" is sometimes "useless" in stopping third parties from collecting your data, a study found. | Continue reading


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Blue Origin plans to blast William Shatner into space on its New Shepard rocket

William Shatner has yet to confirm that he's travelling to space with Blue Origin, but sources told TMZ the trip will be filmed for a documentary. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Jeff Bezos' final letter to Amazon shareowners

For over 20 years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has written an annual letter to shareholders. Earlier this year, he published his last one. | Continue reading


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Super premium treasuries to solve debt limit (2013)

UBS interest rate strategists argue the Treasury should consider issuing "super premium" notes to get around the debt ceiling. | Continue reading


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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Leakers “Do Not Belong Here:” Report

Tim Cook says Apple is "doing everything in our power" to identify staff who leak information, whom he says "do not belong here," the Verge reports. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal

"Eliminating pre-employment testing for cannabis allows us to expand our applicant pool," Amazon senior human resources VP Beth Galetti said. | Continue reading


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Verily has launched a project to untangle itself from Google's technology

Verily's 'Flywheel' project aims to move its technology off Google's systems, as the company looks to a possible future outside Alphabet. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Budget overruns and culture clashes plagued $50B submarine deal

France was only given a few hours' warning that it had lost a lucrative submarine contract with Australia. But the deal had problems for years before. | Continue reading


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Baltimore neighborhood's last remaining restaurant closes due to lack of staff

Village Square Cafe, which has been operating for nearly 13 years in Cross Keys, is the latest casualty of the ongoing labor shortage, reports say. | Continue reading


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Amazon's AI-powered cameras punish its delivery drivers when cars cut them off

Amazon drivers have been punished for looking at side mirrors, adjusting the radio, and being cut off in traffic by other people, Motherboard reports. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Covid-19 Vaccines Seem to Affect Periods, and That's Finally Being Investigated

Dr. Victoria Male, from Imperial College London, says the changes are safe and short-lived, but it's crucial to find out why it happens. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

U.S. Debt ceiling can be sidestepped by minting a $1T platinum coin

The government could technically mint a coin and decide it's worth $1 trillion. No more debt ceiling stand-off. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Britain may revert to the imperial system to 'capitalize on new Brexit freedoms'

A return to the system that uses pounds and ounces has been especially popular with pro-Brexit Britons. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Fossil-Fuel Companies Spent Millions to Play Up Your Carbon Footprint

The plastics industry kickstarted recycling to avoid bans on plastic packaging. Decades later, BP invented the carbon-footprint calculator. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Winemakers Use Ultraviolet Ink and Microprinting to Deter Scammers

Top-end wineries are fighting back against new wine scammers with tactics like color-shifting ink on their labels and secret wafer-thin security tags. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

DeepMind's plot to break away from Google

Almost from the moment Google acquired DeepMind, the leading AI research group was hatching a plan to go independent. Code name: Mario. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Mailchimp founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, then sold for $12B

Employees reacted with shock and anger after Intuit announced Monday it was buying Mailchimp for around $12 billion in stock and cash. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Fired from Google after productivity plummeted

Grigory Yakushev was making $180,000 a year when he experienced what he thought was burnout. It turned out to be undiagnosed depression. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Dan Price Says Raising Min Wage to $70K Led to Baby Boom, Revenue Rise

Gravity Payments' Dan Price told Insider about how his company changed after he raised the minimum wage to $70,000. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Pay Transparency Is Coming, and Employers Are Terrified

Companies have fought to keep employees in the dark about salary levels. But that's changing, thanks to a nationwide wave of "pay transparency" laws. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Don't be fooled by stock gains, they're largely a result of share buybacks(2018)

The FAANG stocks bear much responsibility in the US stock market's 9 year bull run, and Goldman Sachs says this isn't all a bubble. Maybe the bank is correct, and maybe not. But it's important to note that gains in tech stocks are largely attributable to share buybacks, not funda … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Uber's chief technical officer is stepping down

Uber's head of engineering Sukumar Rathnam is leaving the company soon amid simmering tensions with the company's head of product, Sundeep Jain. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers

Tesla repurposed a defunct casino in Nambé Pueblo, Santa Fe County, to open its first showroom in New Mexico. | Continue reading


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The Most Amazing Bubbles in History

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Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but it does

Facebook is reportedly paying teams of contractors around the world to read through WhatsApp messages and moderate the content in them. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Employees describe racism, Hitler memes, exploitation at 'evil' cult teen brand

Brandy Melville employees say the brand is built on exploitation and discrimination. One staffer called it a "disgusting company" that "needs to be shut down." | Continue reading


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Google switches to a front-loaded vesting schedule

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UC Berkeley became the incubator for redhot enterprise startups

Databricks, Anyscale, and Opaque raised huge amounts of funding, while Intel offered to acquire SiFive. They all emerged from UC Berkeley labs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Workers are 'rage quitting' their jobs as a tightening labor market

"At this point, it's like a light bulb went off and I was like, I'm not doing this," a former Walmart employee named Gypsy Noonan told Insider. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Bitcoin mining consumes 0.5% of all electricity used globally and 7x Google's

As bitcoin mining becomes more popular and competitive, it's consuming more and more energy across the globe. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon, Google, Microsoft Vie for Work on ICE RAVEn Data-Mining Tool

ICE is building a tool that analyzes surveillance footage, biometric data, and social-media information. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft want to help. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Eco-anxiety: fear of environmental doom hitting people’s mental health

A growing number of people have found that the rapidly declining state of the planet is impacting their mental health. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Music Startup ROLI files for administration

The company, which set out to develop musical instruments for hobbyists and professionals, is pivoting toward a more amateur market. | Continue reading


@static6.businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Planes with Americans Stuck at Kabul Airport

The planes have been ready to depart for days, but the Taliban won't let them leave until they receive recognition from the US government, he said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Republicans Incorrectly Address Marissa Mayer as Yahoo CEO

House Republicans sent letters to 13 telecom giants, including Facebook, urging them not to comply with January 6-related private records requests. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Electric Ford F-150, No truck has any business being this quick

I got to experience the F-150 Lightning firsthand riding shotgun at Ford's test track. The truck is way quicker than it looks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon is close to launching its own TV in the US

Amazon is targeting the US launch of its own branded TV as soon as October, challenging Samsung, LG, and Sony. | Continue reading


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