Amazon's fulfillment cost per unit dropped to lowest in over 8 years

Amazon's shrinking per-unit fulfillment cost reflects its growing efficiency across its logistics network. | Continue reading


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Trump agrees to an extra debate moderated by Joe Rogan

The Commission on Presidential Debates has already chosen its moderators, but President Donald Trump tweeted support for one hosted by Rogan anyway. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk says Bill Gates has no clue about electric trucks

Tesla happens to be working on an electric truck, the Tesla Semi. The vehicle is two years behind its original 2019 delivery schedule. | Continue reading


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SoftBank is close to selling off chipmaker Arm to Nvidia in $40B mega-deal

SoftBank negotiated the mega-sale to relieve pressure on its flagging stock price and make up for losses. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Pork plant faces $13,494 fine after 4 plant workers died by the Covid-19

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal regulators said Thursday they have cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus at the company’s Sioux Falls plant, an early hot spot for virus infections that hobbled American meatpacking plants. | Continue reading


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Facebook board member Peter Thiel met with white nationalist

The revelation is likely to contribute to internal tensions at Facebook, where employees have protested far-right organizing on the platform. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Amazon adds ex-NSA spy chief who presided over the Snowden scandal to board

Edward Snowden said Keith Alexander was, "personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Neuralink and Woke Studios AI chip implantation robot

Musk founded the neural tech company in 2016, and says the chip will enable a "symbiosis" between the human brain and AI. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Sanders' provided the colorful description of communications specialist Josh Raffel in her new book, "Speaking for Myself." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Google is building its own town near its Silicon Valley headquarters

Google wants the town-like campus to be walkable and bikeable, with all the amenities and services within a 10-minute walk for residents. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Ex-Amazon VP asked for better pay structure for execs before sudden departure

Porter's case reflects Silicon Valley's intensifying competition for talent, but also gives a rare look into Amazon's unusual compensation structure. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

NSA spying exposed by Snowden didn't stop a single terrorist attack, judge finds

The ruling contradicts intelligence officials' statements following Edward Snowden's revelation that the NSA was snooping on Americans' phone records. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

San Francisco rents are plunging to the lowest levels in 6 years

The tech haven may be an outlier, helping to fuel debate about a supposed mass exodus from US cities to suburbia. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft, IBM join Pope Francis to push for 6 AI principles

The Vatican announced its plan for an ethical approach to AI development, arguing for things like transparency, inclusion, impartiality, and privacy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Amazon posted and deleted a job listing to monitor workers' efforts to unionize

The analyst's job duties would also include gathering information for use in legal actions, including restraining orders against labor groups. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search – When It's Branded with a Google Logo (2009)

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Sale of US TikTok thrown into disarray as China rewrites tech export regulations

Negotiations to sell the US arm of the app were sent off-course by new rules out of China which could give its government a veto on any sale. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

TikTok has reportedly chosen a buyer

The company has to finalize the sale in a matter of weeks to avoid a ban on its operations ordered by President Donald Trump. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant but Europeans love it (2016)

Blackcurrants are popular in Europe but were banned in America in the early 1900s because they spread a fungus that kills white pine trees. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Protesters set up a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos' mansion

The protest came the day after Bezos' net worth exceeded $200 billion for the first time, making him one of the richest people in history. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

PR firms and online 'troll army' are helping Uber and Lyft push for Prop 22

The companies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for PR firms to work on the controversial Yes on Proposition 22 campaign, per a CNET report. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

6-foot-distancing rule is outdated, Oxford and MIT created new system

Keeping a firm 6-foot distance from others to stay coronavirus-free is a very 1940s-type of thing to do. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Airbnb extends employee work-from-home until the end of August 2021

Employees will also get a $500 stipend for "home office equipment" as the company expects them to work remotely for at least another year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

First look: how Moderna's experimental coronavirus vaccine works in older adults

Moderna said that its coronavirus vaccine was safe and created an immune response in people older than 55. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

25-year-old sells high-school startup Luminar in a $3.4B deal

Austin Russell founded the self-driving-car tech company Luminar when he was 17. Now he's selling it to a SPAC in a deal valued at $3.4 billion. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Georgia Tech reported 251 cases of coronavirus cases as of August 22

Nearly three dozen cases were reported on Saturday. Among them included a cluster of Greek housing residents, staff, and students living on or off-campus. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Get ready for the 'tech alt-right' to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley

The firing of James Damore over his "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" memo will empower the tech alt-right. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Uber is dependent on fulltime drivers but can't afford to pay them like employee

Most drivers work part time. But Uber and Lyft make most of their money off drivers who work like full-time employees — without any of the benefits. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 30% of trips

The Uber Eats driver and programmer behind the tool said his data shows the company has been been underpaying drivers 25-30% of trips. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Putin critic Alexei Navalny hospitalized after being 'poisoned with a toxin,'

Navalny's press secretery tweeted she believes "Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea" on a flight to Moscow. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

iPhones with 'Fortnite' installed are being sold

Apple yanked "Fortnite" from the App Store late last week. Now, resellers are charging thousands for iPhones with "Fortnite" pre-installed on eBay. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Germany is beginning a 3y universal-basic-income trial with $1400/mo per person

The scientist leading the research, Jürgen Schupp, said it would improve the debate about universal basic income by producing scientific evidence. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

People who get coronavirus develop long-term immunity via T cells: study

Research shows that COVID-19 patients — including those with asymptomatic or mild cases — develop T cells that can fight the virus if it returns. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

A fake blog written by AI shot to the top of Hacker News

The episode demonstrates the strength of the GPT-3 AI text generator, which has shown itself to appear convincingly human under some circumstances. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Why the Mongols were the greatest empire in world history

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@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Nike Vaporfly shoes so fast, runners with other sponsors wear

Nike's Vaporfly shoes are more energetically efficient than other shoes. So some runners with other sponsors wear "blacked-out" Vaporflys to keep up. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Polestar

This is what happens when you take a company that knows how to build cars, give it a bunch of money, and then leave that company to do so. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

The machines USPS is removing can sort more than 36,000 pieces of mail per hour

Each machine can sort up to 36,000 pieces of mail per hour including letters and post cards. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Facebook refused to fight against hate speech and blocks love speech

Facebook said it "has to get better." But despite a recent purge of conspiracy and white supremacy groups, the company showed it has a long way to go. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Instagram faces $500B in fines alleging it harvested biometric data

Last month, Facebook offered $650 million to settle a similar lawsuit claiming it collected biometric data without users' consent. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Amazingly realistic Facebook ads slamming the company by a street artist in NYC

The art comes from from Winston Tseng, a street artist known for his realistic, tongue-in-cheek "ads" across New York City. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Epic Games just set an antitrust trap for Apple; Tim Cook walked right into it

Epic Games could prove to be Apple's most formidable opponent yet. By luring Apple into its trap, it showed just how cunning it could be. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

California court: Amazon liable for defective products sold by 3rd parties

The court said Amazon was "pivotal" in bringing a defective laptop battery to a customer, who was burned when the battery exploded. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

TikTok violated Google's data collection by tracking the individual identifiers

The report follows President Trump's executive order seeking to ban TikTok's parent company from operating in the US over national security concerns. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

Palantir Technologies, $20B Peter Thiel-backed government contractor

Palantir Technologies, the secretive tech firm that supplies data tools to surveillance agencies, is set to go public this year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

A broken cable smashed a hole 100 feet wide in the Arecibo Observatory

The cable ripped through the observatory's reflector dish and damaged the dome that directs the telescope to its targets in space. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

A 17-year-old theme-park employee was attacked by a visitor whom he had asked to wear a mask. Workers are often tasked with enforcing mask policies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 4 years ago

California judge: Uber and Lyft have to classify their drivers as employees

Uber and Lyft are expected to appeal Monday's ruling, and have argued that reclassifying drivers as employees could wreak havoc on their businesses. | Continue reading


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