Zuckerberg urged staff to have VR meetings when many didn't have VR headsets

Meta employees rushed to buy VR headsets and set them up before managers realized, a source told The New York Times. | Continue reading


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Zelenskyy awards Amazon the Ukraine peace prize

Ukraine's vice-prime minister says Amazon Web Services helped save the country's state registries and critical databases after Russia invaded. | Continue reading


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There have been 'catastrophic' Starlink outages in recent weeks in Ukraine

A coordinator for Starlink donations said SpaceX may have been preventing Russia from using the technology and didn't know the regions had been freed. | Continue reading


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Portugal's new 'digital nomad visa' starting Oct 30

"Portugal is the next California," one migration expert told Insider. "You have tremendous talent going there, tremendous wealth going there." | Continue reading


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Musk Blames Hatred of Rich People for His Daughters Estrangement

Musk, who has nine children, told the Financial Times that he has "very good relationships with all the others. Can't win them all." | Continue reading


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Managers want employees back in the office so they can monitor them

Fiverr's survey of executives and managers found that managers think employees take shorter breaks when they're being watched by managers. | Continue reading


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Soviet Union had software that helped decide when to launch a nuclear war

Meet VRYAN. | Continue reading


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Facebook is conducting quiet layoffs

Labeling a specific number of workers as underperforming is the latest sign of retrenchment by the company, which now calls itself Meta. | Continue reading


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Amazon Salaries Revealed

Insider analyzed thousands of Amazon H-1B visa applications to get a sense of how much it pays employees. | Continue reading


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Supreme Court will hear challenge to legal immunity for tech sites

Former President Trump and Republicans railed against the Section 230 protections, which shield tech companies from lawsuits for user-created content. | Continue reading


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The Making of Google Glass – New Book Depicts ‘Carnival of Failure’

A new book on Google Glass chronicles the development of the wearable device that revolutionized AR technology, tracking its meteoric rise and fizzling end. | Continue reading


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Soviet Union's Gerontocracy Is a Warning Sign for the US

The United States' leadership has more in common with the last years of the USSR than they care to admit. | Continue reading


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Realtors Act as a Housing Cartel

Realtors operate as a cartel that stifles competition and keeps commissions high. Here's how to avoid real estate's most common ripoffs. | Continue reading


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Meetings cost companies up to $100M a year

Workers have spent more time in meetings since the pandemic began. They hate them, and now their bosses may have a reason to as well. | Continue reading


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Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner texted Elon Musk urging him to buy Twitter

A trove of private texts between Elon Musk and notable figures in business and media is part of Twitter's ongoing lawsuit against the billionaire. | Continue reading


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Amazon rolls out pay raises for warehouse workers

Amazon employees have been agitating for higher pay for years, putting the company under pressure to respond. | Continue reading


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How much do Big Tech companies pay their employees?

Insider analyzed data to figure out how much Big Tech firms like Google, Disney, and Hulu pay their staff. | Continue reading


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The Oldest Government in History

America's gerontocracy is disconnecting Congress from the rest of the country, an Insider data analysis reveals. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk's own data scientists couldn't find many bots on Twitter

Twitter and Elon Musk have been arguing over the number of fake accounts on the social media service, a part of their $44 billion deal battle. | Continue reading


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Texting Buddies

Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison is a longtime friend of Musk and had pledged $1 billion to the Twitter purchase. | Continue reading


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MSFT former VP of HR shares employees that are most likely to be laid off

Microsoft's former VP of HR told Insider the three types of employees who are most likely to be let go during hard times — and who's safest. | Continue reading


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Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated their compensation

Frustration over low pay has been building at Amazon. The glitch reinforced a sense among some employees that Amazon is nickel-and-diming them. | Continue reading


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“Girls Who Code” founder speaks out after school district bans her books

"This is an opportunity to realize how big this movement is against our kids and how much we need to fight," Reshma Saujani told Insider. | Continue reading


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Amazon is walking back staffers' raises after a bug miscalculated compensation

After a bug miscalculated compensation, many Amazon employees who got promoted are finding out their raise packages aren't as high as they thought. | Continue reading


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Bill Gates says political polarization 'may bring it all to an end'

Bill Gates, who has been the subject of many conspiracy theories over the years involving vaccines, added that misinformation is also an issue. | Continue reading


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The former rector of the Moscow'Aviation Institute died in an accident, the latest in a string of untimely deaths of top Russian figures. | Continue reading


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A man borrowed $75,000 for leg-lengthening surgery to make him 3 inches taller

John Lovedale, who was 5 feet 8.5 inches tall, is paying $1,200 a month for five years after gaining 3 inches in height, GQ magazine reported. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

New study suggests Gen-Z are using TikTok instead of Google

More and more Gen Z users are turning to TikTok over Google, but approximately 20% of the videos on TikTok contains misinformation. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

US Customs Duplicates Phone and Laptop Contents of Travelers

Opponents of the process are concerned that CBP's searching and storing of data, which has previously been hacked, is a constitutional violation. | Continue reading


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Travelers revolt against Airbnb chore lists and cleaning fees

"If I'm paying $229 a night to stay somewhere, plus a $125 cleaning fee, I'm not doing any laundry," one traveler said in a viral TikTok. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Europe's Drought Uncovers 'Spanish Stonehenge,' Artifacts

Europe's rivers are drying up due to the worst drought in 500 years, revealing prehistoric monuments, ancient bridges, and war relics. | Continue reading


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The company that makes GIFs says they're 'cringe' and 'out of fashion'

Giphy said fewer gifs had been uploaded in the past two years because content creators were "finding less value" in them. | Continue reading


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Whole Foods CEO says 'socialists are taking over' in the US

"I feel like I've become my father," Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, 68, said. "I don't understand the younger generation." | Continue reading


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James Webb Space Telescope after 1 month:oldest galaxies,messy cosmic collisions

In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers with observations of distant cosmic objects. | Continue reading


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Musk's SpaceX to Launch Top Secret Spy Satellites for US Gov: Report

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, will launch spy satellites for a mission later this year, Bloomberg reported. | Continue reading


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Google extends its hiring freeze

Google announced a two-week hiring freeze in July. Employees say they're seeing threats from leadership as the company tightens its belt. | Continue reading


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Texting between iPhone and Android is broken': Google puts Apple on blast for

"It's time for Apple to fix texting," Google says, urging it to adopt a newer comms standard that improves messaging between iPhones and Androids. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Billionaires Like Gates, Bezos Backing Search for Rare Minerals in Greenland

As Greenland's ice melts, mining companies believe the minerals and metals below the surface can be used to power electric vehicles. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Top marketing exec Oracle poached from AWS has left after arguing with CEO

Former Oracle CMO Ariel Kelman's departure from Oracle was shrouded in secrecy, but sources say Kelman and CEO Safra Catz disagreed over spending. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft quietly laid off Modern Life Experiences team

Microsoft told employees of the "Modern Life Experiences" team to find another position within 60 days or take severance. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta's AI chatbot has some election-denying, antisemitic bugs to work out

Meta's new Blenderbot AI learns from users interacting with it, causing the chatbot to repeat election-denying claims, antisemitic tropes, and conspiracy theories. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Twitter paid to join a political group fighting against abortion

Twitter said the payment wasn't a political campaign donation, and that it also paid to join the Democratic Attorneys General Association. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Parent Sues Facebook Alleging It Affected Her Daughter's Mental Health

A parent of a thirteen-year-old girl is suing Meta for allegedly failing to ensure users are not harmed from excessive use of Facebook. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Roomba acquisition ‘most dangerous In companies history

Amazon's purchase of iRobot could allow the tech giant to map the inside of your home and store data on where your furniture is and each room's size. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta and Google to set and reduce pay

Tech workers had been in high demand since the start of the pandemic as companies gave them high pay and flexible work. That appears to have ended. | Continue reading


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Oracle insiders describe the 'complete chaos' from layoffs

Oracle's marketing team has been gutted following the departure of CMO Ariel Kelman, sources told Insider, as the company aggressively cuts costs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

The FTC just slapped Opendoor with a $62M fine

The FTC says that Opendoor told customers they would make more money by selling to it instead of to regular buyers. Sellers actually made less. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Meta sued for allegedly collecting patient health data from hospitals

A second lawsuit alleges hospitals violated HIPAA by providing private patient data to Meta that it sometimes then used in personalized Facebook ads. | Continue reading


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