SpaceX fired up its Mars spaceship prototype for the first time

The SpaceX founder Elon Musk says his rocket company fired up "Starhopper" for the first time. The vehicle is an early prototype of a Mars spaceship. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Japanese F-35 in the Pacific, cue biggest counter-espionage ops since Cold War

Experts say Russia and China will do anything to get a look at the crashed F-35 jet and undermine the next several decades of US airpower. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Zoom could be valued at $8B in upcoming IPO

Video conferencing company Zoom updated its IPO price range to $28 to $32, giving the company a possible valuation over $8 billion. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Says He's Borrowing from the Oracle Playbook

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said he would use some Oracle strategies to help Google Cloud catch up to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Google just beat Amazon to launching one of the first drone delivery services

Alphabet-owned drones will deliver items including coffee and ice cream to homes in Canberra, Australia. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

US is threatening the EU with $11B in sanctions over subsidies to Airbus

The US Trade Representative identified EU products, including wine, cheese, and Airbus planes, that could face tariffs when imported to the US. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

White nationalists disillusioned with Trump – and some are joining the Yang Gang

Many of Donald Trump's white nationalist supporters are turning away from the president, with some instead supporting democrat candidate Andrew Yang. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg: Contents of His Trash Revealed by New York Times

Items retrieved from Mark Zuckerberg's trash included a working coffee machine, A&W diet root beer, and boxes of Chinese takeout. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Exercise makes you happier than money, according to Yale and Oxford research

Yale and Oxford researchers say exercise is more important to your mental health than your economic status. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

UK laid out plans to end the internet's Wild West days and regulating big tech

UK government publishes plans to create a new regulator to oversee 'harmful content' on social media, search, messaging, and file-sharing platforms. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Better send a thank you email to get yourself landed in a job

An executive managing editor who has hired hundreds of people believes candidates who send thank-you emails show they want the job. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Silicon Valley is facing an 'exodus of young employees,' survey shows

Silicon Valley is known as the center of innovation, but a recent Brunswick Group survey reveals tech workers notice its dominance starting to slip. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Striking photos – Japan's tireless work culture

Almost every night for two years photographer Pawel Jaszczuk captured Japanese businessmen sleeping in public to document Japan's culture of overwork. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Battle over tilting 58-story Manhattan skyscraper

The tower's contractor is now suing the developer, which said there's no safety issue. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio is afraid that capitalism is going to be abandoned after years of working poorly. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

After an employee backlash, Google has cancelled its AI ethics board

Google's artificial intelligence advisory board was mired in controversy from the start. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

Linus Torvalds' criticism of social media is strong condemnation from a guy who's famous for his own "not polite" behavior on public email lists. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook pays Daily Telegraph for positive sponsored news stories

After years of negative headlines, Facebook has found a solution: Buying positive press. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook is partnering with Daily Telegraph to downplay 'technofears'

After years of negative headlines, Facebook has found a solution: Buying positive press. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Years-old posts by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared — meaning key moments in the company's history have vanished. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Trump's lawyers have previously said they want a chance to review and "correct" the Mueller report before it's made public. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Online coding platform Repl.it is picking up popularity among kids and teenagers

Here's how Repl.it, an online coding platform, is bringing together kids from around the world and helping them learn to code and build projects. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max just made an emergency landing in Florida

The pilots of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max reported problems with their CFM Leap 1B engines. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Collection of photos from every single Apple Store across the globe

A comprehensive look at Apple's stores around the globe. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

How to change your Google background for a more enjoyable user experience

You can change the background on your Google account to enhance your user experience and help differentiate accounts on the same computer. Here's how. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Next iPhones could have a feature that charges other devices

You could potentially use the 2019 iPhone as a wireless charging pad — if the rumors are true. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

VC Starter Kit: A Bundle with a Patagonia Vest and Allbirds Sneakers

Patagonia vest? Check. Allbirds sneakers? Check. "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel? Check. Meet the VC Starter Kit. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Things Hardly Anyone Knows About Nike

The phrase "Just Do It" was coined by a murderer. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory

The operation was run by a local restaurateur who was placed under US sanctions for attempting to interfere with US elections. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

State AGs put tech giants on notice: '...they have become too big'

The Attorney General for Louisiana, Jeff Landry, has described a growing unease among his fellow attorneys general regarding the tech giants' power. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Ugly people make more money

There was a positive association between attractiveness and earnings, except for the really ugly people. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

An NYU professor explains why it's so dangerous that Silicon Valley is building AI to make decisions without human values

In this excerpt from "The Big Nine," NYU Professor Amy Webb explains the dangers of decision-making AI. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Monopolies are the 'missing piece of the puzzle' of US inequality analysis

The authors of "The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition" say that less competitive markets are stifling the middle class. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Warren Buffett used insurance float

Insurance float has been a huge contributor behind Warren Buffett’s success with Berkshire Hathaway. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Crypto exchange can't repay $190M because the CEO died with only password

QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten reportedly died in December. He had sole knowledge of the Canadian crypto exchange's cold storage solution. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time work is high

If "involuntary" part-timers were classed as "unemployed" — because they are unemployed for most of the week — then UK unemployment would be 7%. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

'2020 class warfare?'

The right-wing says the left is fueling a class-war, but progressives argue that without reform, American democracy will drift towards plutocracy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Russia is strong-arming Apple into getting access to its user data

The Russian security services could soon have access to the personal data of thousands of Apple users in Russia. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away

Males in Saudi Arabia have near-total control where women travel. INSIDER investigated the government's Absher website, which can help them do it. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Nevada officials had no clue the federal government shipped plutonium to NV

State officials don't know how the plutonium was transported or the route the Department of Energy took to get to Nevada. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

1.5 minimun-wage jobs needed to afford half the rent for 2 bed apt

To afford a two-bedroom apartment in the US, the minimum-wage worker would need to work around 122 hours a week. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Best-sounding concert halls in the world (2016)

Vienna, Boston, and Amsterdam are as good as it gets, according to acousticians. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man

Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum awarded prizes to four men. One woman had her efforts "recognised", but did not get a prize. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Soros at Davos: China's 'social credit' system and Big IT are mortal threat

Billionaire investor George Soros warned a crowd at Davos about the "mortal danger facing open societies," and took China's government to task. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

NASA will attempt to knock an asteroid out of orbit in 2022

The aim of the project is to establish whether we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Abandoned castle village in Turkey

Burj Al Babas was designed as a luxury community for foreign buyers, but its villas are still empty. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Google says data is more like sunlight than oil

Google was just fined $57 million for breaching Europe's data and privacy rules. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

US counties are paying most of the federal income taxes

25 counties in the United States paid more than a quarter of the total income tax collected in 2016, according to IRS data. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago