Cruise is now worth $19B after a new $1.15B funding round

The new round is $1.15 billion, and it comes from a group of institutional investors, GM, Japan's SoftBank Vision Fund, and Honda. | Continue reading


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Complaints show uBiome has been surprising patients and insurers with bills

The FBI raided uBiome's headquarters and its co-CEOs were placed on leave. The startup has said it's cooperating with authorities. | Continue reading


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'Apples the size of watermelons': Growing up in the Chernobyl fallout zone

A psychologist who grew up near the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine says she still has seizures. The nuclear disaster has informed her work. | Continue reading


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Facebook's effort to stop suicides reveals a gap between tech and healthcare

Facebook has a suicide-monitoring tool that has dispatched emergency responders more than 3,500 times. But we don't know how well it works. | Continue reading


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Apple CEO Tim Cook says digital privacy 'has become a crisis'

In a new interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said privacy "has become a crisis" but it's a "fixable" problem. He also discussed concerns around screen time. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Astronomers Created a Stunning Picture of the Hubble Legacy Field

Researchers estimate 265,000 galaxies are in the Hubble Space Telescope image, some of which appear as they existed 13.3 billion years ago. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Jeff Bezos is

Jeff Bezos is the richest person. Worth an estimated $121 billion, the Amazon CEO has $16 billion more than the next-richest person, Bill Gates. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Verizon is trying to sell Tumblr, the blogging site once worth $1.1B

Tumblr was once worth more than $1 billion, but the site has faded in popularity and Verizon is shopping it around. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Police entering suspect sketches in AWS Rekognition may lead to wrongful arrests

Experts voiced concern that using sketches would increase error rates, which could lead to false matches. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

UBiome has placed its founders on leave following FBI raid

General Counsel John Rakow was named interim CEO, and uBiome said it plans to conduct an investigation of its billing practices. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

More than 200 Reports Made to FAA over failing 737 sensor

The angle of attack sensor was highlighted in 216 Federal Aviation Administration reports in the last 15 years for failing or needing to be repaired. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Theresa May Sacks Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson After Huawei Security Leak

May asked Williamson to leave her Cabinet on Wednesday. | Continue reading


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Hackers steal from IT company whose clients include Oracle, Airbus, and Porsche

The Citycomp hackers set up a website threatening to publish sensitive financial information. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A Chinese ride-hailing company is unhappy with its Tesla fleet

Shenma Zhuanche said it was inspired by the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" to air its grievances against Elon Musk's car company. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Autonomy expert: Musk's robotaxi prediction a “publicity stunt”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that the company's cars will be ready to take part in an autonomous taxi service by the end of 2020. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Tesla enthusiasts and analysts are entering uncharted territory

Analysts and Tesla enthusiasts are entering unexplored territory — Tesla has never operated at these production and expense levels. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Twitter's algorithm can't ban white supremacists without banning GOP politicians

Twitter used an algorithm to crack down on ISIS-related tweets, but an employee said an algorithm targeting white supremacists could ban GOP figures | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Amazon warehouse tracking auto fires people without supervisor involvement

Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

More Store Closings So Far in 2019 Than in All of 2018

A new report from Coresight Research says US retailers have announced 5,994 store closings this year, compared with 5,864 in all of 2018. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Woman wakes up after 27 years in a coma

Munira Abdulla was in a car with her son Omar when it crashed in 1991. Omar escaped with bruises, but she entered a deep coma which lasted 27 years. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

UK will ignore US pressure to ban Huawei from its 5G network

Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly gave the order on Tuesday, although other ministers pushed for a complete ban on Huawei 5G kit. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple’s Cook: $0 donated politically, has no PAC because they 'shouldn't exist'

While Apple doesn't try to get particular politicians elected, it still spend millions annually on lobbying, records show. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A teen is suing Apple claiming its facial recognition led to his false arrest

18-year-old Ousmane Bah from New York was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of stealing from a Manhattan Apple store. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Metabase, an open source business analytics startup, closes $8M Series A

Open source business intelligence startup Metabase had a fast-growing community, and VCs noticed. Now, it has closed $8 million in in series A funding | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Metabase $8M Series-A led by NEA

Open source business intelligence startup Metabase had a fast-growing community, and VCs noticed. Now, it has closed $8 million in in series A funding | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Astronomers just found a 2nd galaxy containing no dark matter

The discovery of the first galaxy in March 2018 was met with praise and criticism, as it defied dark-matter theory. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

CEO explains how his DevOps startup runs 15,000 clones each day

Platform.sh CEO Fred Plais says its product runs 15,000 clones each day. It clones the applications developers build and allows them to test them. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Being rich is an empty goal

Wealth shouldn't be seen as a material to be hoarded, but as a way to live a good life, according to Chelsea Fagan of The Financial Diet. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Some Microsofties say that women's brains make them less interstd in engineering

This debate has already reached the top of the company, even as Microsoft successfully defends itself against a lawsuit by a group of women. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Amazon demands selfies from delivery drivers

Amazon is requiring delivery drivers to snap selfies to verify their identities. The new requirements apply to Amazon Flex drivers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Uber raises $1B for self-driving vehicles

Japan's Softbank fund, Toyota, and DENSO Corporation are investing in Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, the company said Thursday. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

In 2011, just over 5,500 reports feces in public were logged by the San Francisco Department of Public Works; in 2018, the number was over 28,000. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

It takes a net worth of millions to be comfortable in Silicon Valley

Financial experts told Mercury News that it could take up to $10 million to be financially comfortable living in Silicon Valley. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

Facebook says that the new privacy issue stemmed from a code change circa May 2016. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Carl's Jr. Debuts CBD Burger for 4/20

Carl's Jr. is debuting a cannabis-infused burger on 4/20. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Daimler and BMW's car-sharing service reportedly hacked – up to 100 cars missing

The car-sharing service Share Now has been hacked in Chicago, CBS Chicago reporter Brad Edwards said on Twitter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

World's largest hedge fund: How US workers got screwed over the past 20 years

Ray Dalio's hedge fund Bridgewater reports US corporate profit margins have increased while labor bargaining power and worker wages fell. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Microsoft accused of 'complicit' helping China develop sinister AI capabilities

Microsoft researchers produced three research papers on AI and facial analysis with a Chinese military-run university last year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Zuckerberg and Dorsey are 'handmaidens to authoritarianism'

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED 2019 on Monday, where she criticized tech companies for "breaking" liberal democracy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Effort to rebuild Notre-Dame could get help from unlikely source: A video game

In the wake of the tragic fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, French president Emmanual Macron has promised to rebuild. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Robots could wipe out 1.3M Wall Street jobs in the next 10 years

The financial services industry is a popular place for job seekers, but artificial intelligence could wipe away a million banking jobs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook investors bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg

Shareholders will vote on two proposals to overhaul Facebook's governance at the social network's annual shareholder meeting on May 30. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

The Russians are screwing with the GPS system

The Russians are hacking the global navigation... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook accidentally put hidden messages in VR controllers

Facebook says the cryptic messages were only meant to be included in prototypes of the Oculus Touch devices. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Uber's IPO Filing Describes Two Travis Kalanicks

Uber tries to exorcize the ghosts of its past management in its IPO paperwork. The only problem is that ex CEO Travis Kalanick is still on the board. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Amazon workers listen to Alexa recordings: report

Amazon has workers listening to some amount of Alexa voice recordings, according to a report from Bloomberg. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

13 essential tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your iPad

Whether you've just purchased a new iPad Air or are just looking for ways to master your current iPad, these tips and tricks will save you some time. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Walmart it's putting to work thousands of robots in its stores

Walmart is bringing thousands of new robots into its stores across the US. | Continue reading


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