People have started 'fake commuting' because they crave the alone time

Unlike winding down after a long day, fake commuting is about erecting necessary personal boundaries that separate home and work life. | Continue reading


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Amazon names Adam Selipsky the incoming CEO of its $40B cloud business

Amazon named Adam Selipsky, a former executive and CEO of Tableau Software, the incoming head of its cloud business. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon driver quits over company's new AI-powered truck cameras

The driver, identified only as Vic, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that he believes the AI-powered cameras were a breach of privacy and trust. | Continue reading


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SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet in midair to save it

SpaceX was down to its last rocket, which was flying aboard a C-17 jet over the Pacific. When it began to crumple, Zach Dunn dove in headfirst. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes pregnant, requests federal trial be delayed again

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, and is asking to have her federal trial delayed until the end of August after she gives birth. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Cofounders of bankrupt poop-testing startup uBiome have been charged with fraud

The cofounders face criminal and civil charges. They are accused of giving a false impression to investors of how well the company was doing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Coinbase Mafia: 17 startups created by ex-Coinbase employees

Coinbase has a highly entrepreneurial alumni network. The so-called Coinbase mafia has raised more than $100 million for their startups. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Wall Street Bets Founder Signs with Kevin Hart's Hollywood Agency

Founder Jaime Rogozinski signed with United Talent Agency as Hollywood looks to capitalize on the GameStop saga. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Ja Rule is selling a physical painting from his Fyre Festival days as an NFT

The painting once hung in Fyre Media's New York City headquarters before the Fyre Festival unraveled as an unmitigated disaster. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

How the FTC can make up for the past when it comes to regulating Google

By opening up Google's monopoly on internet searches, the US can catch up in the international race to regulate the tech giant. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Boris Johnson to ban protests that are noisy or cause 'annoyance'

Protesters could be imprisoned for up to 10 years under the new legislation brought forward by Boris Johnson's UK government. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Equations that changed the world (2014)

From Ian Stewart's book, these 17 math equations changed the course of human history. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Male statutory rape victims legally-required to pay child support

Past court cases have established precedents for states requiring male statutory rape victims to pay child support. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Oxide cofounder: I pay everyone in my company the same salary – $180,250

Giving his 23 employees a uniform salary sets the tone for teamwork and "new levels of candor," writes Oxide cofounder Bryan Cantrill. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Denmark has suspended AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine

Denmark's health authorities said it wasn't yet clear whether several cases of blood clots were directly linked to AstraZeneca's vaccine. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Vitamin D may not be as protective against Covid-19 as previously thought

Two new preprints on coronavirus and vitamin D found no link between the nutrient and better COVID-19 outcomes, contrary to previous studies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Burger King's 'women belong in the kitchen' tweet gets backlash

KFC responded to Burger King: "The best time to delete this tweet was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Drones in Ghana deliver Covid vaccines to rural communities

Zipline has started delivering coronavirus vaccines via drone in Ghana as part of COVAX's first-ever shipment of vaccines to low-income countries. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Profile of Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman

Frank Slootman has torn up the do-gooder playbook of Big Tech's liberal elite and replaced it with a hard-charging, profit-driven ethos that doesn't pay lip service to things like diversity and social justice. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tim Cook: Why I Fired Scott Forstall (2012)

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Bubble facility so people can travel for business without quarantine

The facility has 150 guest rooms, gym pods, a COVID-19 testing center, and meeting rooms with air-tight glass panels and separate ventilation systems. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Google's 'Wolverine' project to give you superhuman hearing

X, Alphabet's moon-shots factory, has been working on a device that it believes could be the future of hearing, and the project is picking up speed. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The first real-world data shows coronavirus vaccines can help us forge a path out of the pandemic. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

SpaceX once left its rocket engineers on an island without food

A SpaceX engineer told the journalist Eric Berger that workers "felt like slaves" on Omelek, working long hours and sometimes going without food. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Is Zoom big enough to support an entire app ecosystem? Sure, say investors. ($)

Making a living from Zoom add-ins would have been impossible a year ago. But it's now a vibrant opportunity for developers, as long as they're smart. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Teams aims to boost productivity by tracking employee mental health

Microsoft embedded Teams with wellness tools to address the mental health crisis, and is pitching it as a means of boosting worker productivity. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Green Li-ion technology could be the solution to recycling lithium ion batteries

Green Li-ion and its investors hope to be able to take a share of a recycling market estimated to be worth over US$12 billion by 2025. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Hyundai debuts Ioniq 5 EV to compete with Tesla, Volkswagen

The Ioniq 5 is the first member of Hyundai's new Ioniq EV brand. It'll be available later this year and Motor Trend expects it to start above $30,000. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Costco to pay at least $16 per hour, as CEO advocates for a higher minimum wage

Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 per hour, the CEO announced in a congressional hearing on Thursday. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

North Korea hacked Pfizer because it wants to sell bootleg Covid vaccines

North Korea is well-practiced at drug smuggling and hacking, and needs as much foreign currency as it can get. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Some in France, Germany, UK, Avoid AstraZeneca Jab for Pfizer

Officials in Europe have described public resistance to the AstraZeneca vaccine. In the UK, some are avoiding the shot, while others are seeking it. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

They launched a $1B startup together. Then they broke up

Modern Health CEO Alyson Watson dreams of taking her startup public. Meanwhile, the cofounder she fired is suing their company and its main investor. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The Lowy Institute ranked Vietnam No. 2 behind New Zealand in successfully handling the pandemic. The US ranked 94. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

4,300 SpaceX employees took part in a Covid-19 antibody study

Elon Musk reportedly took a personal interest in the study, and asked researchers to brief himself and top SpaceX executives. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk says he wants the new Tesla Roadster to be able to hover

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Joe Rogan's podcast that he wanted the next Roadster to be able to hover a meter off the ground. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The US Navy is planning to 'recycle' the USS Nimitz

The Navy has the ambitious goal of building a fleet with 546 ships by 2051. The USS Nimitz won't be one of them. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX for $99M mission to map creation

NASA said a space telescope called SPHEREx would launch via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and collect data on how the universe was created. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Insiders dish on what it's like to work for Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos' successor

Amazon employees say Andy Jassy, who will replace Jeff Bezos as CEO, is a hard-charging boss who has full autonomy. "It's 100% Andy's show," one said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood's rating has dropped back down to one star on the Play store

Google deleted 100,000 negative reviews of Robinhood last week — but it's leaving a fresh wave of critical reviews alone. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Cfius will begin scrutinizing Chinese investment in US startups

CFIUS has been staffing up with investment and tech experts, and under Biden will target Chinese investment in US startups, sources told the WSJ. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Switzerland calls referendum on stopping Covid lockdowns

The referendum comes amid an increasing national debate in Switzerland about the rights of individuals. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

SoftBank will invest $100M to make Miami a new tech hub

Softbank's COO says the Florida city has the right quality of life and tax structure to support a bigger tech city. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Facebook reportedly prepping antitrust lawsuit against Apple on App Store rules

Facebook's is prepping a suit that alleges Apple favors its own apps over third-parties like Facebook, per an Information report. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood will allow users to buy GameStop and AMC shares again

The company said it restricted trading to comply with "financial requirements," including SEC net capital obligations and clearinghouse deposits. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

AOC calls out Robinhood for blocking GameStop, suggests holding a hearing

"We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp's decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock," Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it

It was an expensive mistake: Brett Alder says Austin is not the "California of Texas" and now sees the Golden State in a new light. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the men who carried out the bombing that killed 168 people in 1995, had ties to the Michigan Militia. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tesla accuses engineer of downloading 26k sensitive files in his first week

Tesla said a software engineer transferred about 26,000 confidential documents to his personal Dropbox during his first week at the company. | Continue reading


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