Microsoft doubled the price of Xbox Live Gold memberships to $120 per year

Current 6- and 12-month Gold members won't see prices increase, but anyone who signs up for a new monthly plan moving forward will pay more. | Continue reading


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Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike on the future of privacy

Signal has seen an explosion in popularity as people seek out privacy-focused alternatives to big tech. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk says he will give $100M to best carbon capture technology

Musk recently asked for ideas on where to donate his wealth — of which he has promised to give away half but has barely made a dent so far. | Continue reading


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Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform

Swapstack, Upstart.me, and Letterwell see a future in pairing micro-newsletters with budget-savvy brands, but the strategy could prove precarious. | Continue reading


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Trump pardons Levandowski, who shared Google's selfdriving car secrets with Uber

Some Trump allies reportedly believe that people on the final list of pardons are those Trump expects to benefit from post-presidency. | Continue reading


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Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties

Ex-employees told The Information that Apple kept working with suppliers, despite repeated labor law violations, when cutting ties was more costly. | Continue reading


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GitHub cites 'significant errors of judgement' in firing of Jewish employee

The company sparked an uproar when it fired a Jewish employee who suggested that there were "Nazis" among the US capitol rioters. | Continue reading


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Microsoft, Oracle, others team up to create vaccination passports

Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, and the Mayo Clinic are part of the Vaccination Credential Initiative. | Continue reading


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Jason Donenfeld Business Insider Interview

At only 4,000 lines of code, WireGuard is one of the world's simplest — and most secure — VPN protocol. This is how its founder made it what it is. | Continue reading


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Parler helped the FBI identify at least one person charged with the Capitol riot

A sworn affidavit from an FBI agent says that Parler provided information that helped agents identify, locate, and arrest a Proud Boys supporter. | Continue reading


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Google under fire for experiments with local news results

One publisher blasted Google' actions as 'a chilling illustration of their extraordinary market power.' | Continue reading


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Major tech companies are hiring Rust experts months after Mozilla laid them off

Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are forming new Rust teams, and Google has also been hiring former Mozilla engineers to build with the language. | Continue reading


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Sweden passes lockdown law to allow closures amid high death toll

Sweden has introduced a law that would allow the government which would allow officials to close restaurants, shops, and public transport. | Continue reading


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Two chances to correctly guess the password to wallet, or lose $220M

After sliding as much as 21% on Sunday and Monday, bitcoin's price rose to about $36,000 on Tuesday. | Continue reading


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GitHub is facing employee backlash

Some 200 GitHub employees have signed an open letter looking for answers, as CEO Nat Friedman pledges an investigation. | Continue reading


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Richest person Elon Musk to dedicate wealth to Mars colony

Musk's immense wealth comes mostly from holding stock in his companies. He says his goal is to eventually use to it colonize Mars. | Continue reading


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Leaked memos Amazon warn 'be vigilant' due to threats to blow up data centers

The moves reflect Amazon's heightened awareness of the threat facing the company after its decision to sever ties with Parler. | Continue reading


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Facebook to staff: Avoid company-branded clothing for own safety

The internal memo, reviewed by The Information, was sent after Facebook suspended President Donald Trump's account in the wake of the Capitol siege. | Continue reading


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The pilot objected to the behavior of some of those on board a flight from Reagan National Airport to Phoenix in the wake of riots at the US Capitol. | Continue reading


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The big unanswered question: Why were so few law-enforcement agents at the Capitol when demonstrations like that are usually heavily policed? | Continue reading


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VCs want investors to stop doing deals with Jared Kushner

As Trump-supporters stormed the US Capitol, VC Twitter buzzed with investors calling on each other to stop doing deals with Jared Kushner. | Continue reading


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Apple's Compensation Committee will pay executives for Apple Values adherence

Apple did not say how its compensation committee would measure execs' performance against its environmental and social values. | Continue reading


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Death sentence for Chinese banker found guilty of taking $277M in bribes

Ex-finance official Lai Xiaomin was investigated starting in 2018 and pled guilty last year to bribery, bigamy, and embezzlement charges. | Continue reading


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The median age of employees at all the top tech companies

Silicon Valley has long been known for its youth-obsessed culture, but does youth actually rule the tech world? | Continue reading


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Anti-hate groups want Facebook to block deniers of Armenian Genocide

The Ottoman Empire killed 1.5 million Armenians in the Armenian genocide. However, Turkey still falsely claims that the genocide didn't happen. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk Interview

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for an interview during his visit to Germany. | Continue reading


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Japan is developing wooden satellites to send into orbit by 2023

Space junk is becoming a growing concern amongst experts, who say it poses an environmental hazard — especially if it burns up on re-entry. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon hired the lobbyist brother of close Biden ally days after 2020 election

Days after the 2020 presidential election, Amazon hired lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, whose brother is a close advisor to President-elect Joe Biden. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Ford's head of EVs says the new Mustang Mach-E's 'roof doesn't fall off'

Darren Palmer, Ford's longtime electric-car boss, didn't mention Tesla by name, but his point was loud and clear. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Silicon Valley elites are fleeing the region for states like Texas and Florida

The pandemic seems to have freed those who feel frustrated by Silicon Valley's culture to leave the area for good. | Continue reading


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Take a Look Inside Austin

Realtors report bidding wars, open-house lines, sky-high prices, and off-market deals fueled by people fleeing the coasts for Austin's "Silicon Hills." | Continue reading


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Verily is reshuffling its leadership after a turbulent 2020

Verily is reshuffling its leadership, making new hires, and overhauling reporting lines to free up CEO Andy Conrad and move on from a dramatic year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

AOC calls Amazon More than 4000 Amazon employees are on food stamps

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said many Amazon logistics roles provide no financial security because thousands of workers are on food stamps. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Inside the Life of Ghislaine Maxwell's Husband, Tech CEO Scott Borgerson

Borgerson's world has been turned upside down following Maxwell's arrest in July. Now he's turning to God for a path forward. | Continue reading


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Security experts are 'freaking out' about how foreign hackers carried out the'mo

"This could just be the tip of the iceberg," said a former NSA analyst. "No one had a solution to preventing an attack like this and here we are." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

US adding drone company DJI to economic blacklist

The move is the latest in President Donald Trump's "tough on China" policy. China's top chipmaker, SMIC, is also being added to the trade blacklist. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash, a source tells Insider

Kushner directed Lara Trump, the vice president's nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman to serve on its board, a person familiar with the operation told Insider. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

MacKenzie Scott announces $4B donation to 384 organizations

MacKenzie Scott, whose net worth tops $60 billion, pledged last year to give most of her wealth back to society. This year, she gave nearly $6 billion. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

A 3-floor apartment building is being 3D printed in Germany

The apartment building will contain 4,090 square feet of occupiable space in the form of five apartment units and a basement. | Continue reading


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FTC is ordering Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc., to share how they use your data

The FTC's order demands that the firms respond in 45 days and comes as federal agencies continue to crack down on the tech industry. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Discoveries in ‘20 have fundamentally altered our understanding of human history

Some of our human ancestors interbred earlier than we thought. The first Americans came to the continent by boat. | Continue reading


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Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai for Hanukkah

Following the historic Abraham Accords peace deal in August, Dubai has become a hotspot for Israeli tourists and business people. | Continue reading


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Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time

The work is an essential step toward establishing a global-scale quantum internet. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

Oracle's move to Austin is just the latest example of Silicon Valley tech talent leaving the San Francisco Bay Area for the city. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Bill proposed in NYC would charge residents $3 for all packages ordered online

E-commerce sales totaled $209.5 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 36% over the same period in 2019, according to the Commerce Department. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

Silicon Valley's mix of startup-friendly features made it the world's tech capital. As tech CEOs and VCs move away, the region faces difficult questions. | Continue reading


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Ööd has been doing so well with US sales, it plans to open a branch in the US next year to sell its tiny homes, according to its founders. | Continue reading


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A notorious market bear reiterates that the S&P 500 will suffer a 70% crash

John Hussman is sounding alarm bells, warning that a clear sequence of events will eventually drive the stock market into a downward spiral. | Continue reading


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