Tesla sued by 15 Black employees alleging racial harassment

A new lawsuit filed on June 30 said Tesla's factories have been "systematically turned into a racially hostile work environment." | Continue reading


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Chinese real-estate developers accepting crops as down payments for properties

"We are helping farmers with love, and making it easier for them to buy homes," said Central China Real Estate. | Continue reading


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Germany Faces Collapse of Entire Industries on Russian Gas Supply Cuts

"We aren't dealing with erratic decisions but with economic warfare, completely rational and very clear," said Germany economy minister Robert Habeck. | Continue reading


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An 'Island' of Disgusting Changed the Course of the Thames River in London

Thousands of discarded wipes flushed down toilets end up on the river Thames banks, forming a mass dubbed 'wet wipe island.' | Continue reading


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AI model predicted crime in cities week before it happened. Was right 9/10 times

The predictive model created by professors at the University of Chicago identified types of crime within a two-block radius with 90% accuracy. | Continue reading


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Satellites can now find the sources of methane leaks

New satellite technology makes it easier to detect methane leaks and to fight the climate crisis. The technology will help drive accountability. | Continue reading


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Mark Zuckerberg upping performance goals to get rid of employees

Mark Zuckerberg said he hoped more "aggressive goals" would cause some staff to leave, according to audio of a Meta company meeting heard by Reuters. | Continue reading


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Google Let Sanctioned Russian Firm Access Data of Americans, Europeans

US senators in April warned user data through ad sales platforms could be a "goldmine for foreign intelligence services that could exploit it." | Continue reading


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TikTok Confirms US User Data Can Be Accessed in China

TikTok's CEO sent a letter to nine Republican senators after a BuzzFeed News report shined a new light on privacy and security concerns. | Continue reading


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Australopithecus fossils are 1M years older than previously thought

To accurately determine the fossils' age, researchers analyzed particles from outer space in the rocks the bones were discovered in. | Continue reading


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Russians searching pirated Microsoft products

Russia is reliant on foreign software used in power manufacturing and engineering systems, so the cessation of updates and services is a big deal. | Continue reading


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Richard Branson discussed rebuilding Mriya, the largest cargo plane

The Antonov An-225 Mriya was destroyed in a fierce bombardment of Antonov Airport just days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading


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“Laid off from my dream job at Tesla without warning”

What started as a hiring freeze progressed to a 3.5% workforce reduction. Quishon Walker details his experience as one of the many who were let go. | Continue reading


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Silicon Valley healthcare startup Cerebral harmed hundreds of patients

Cerebral wanted to change mental-health care. Instead, it took on patients it couldn't handle and pushed its providers beyond their expertise. | Continue reading


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The housing market's next big crisis: too many homes

Slowing population growth and a surge in new construction will eventually cause a big, new problem for America's housing market: too many homes. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk abruptly stopped tweeting 8 days ago, and no one knows why

It's a mysterious silence for Musk, whose tweets have made headlines near-daily since he announced his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter. | Continue reading


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New Israeli military technology allows operators to 'see through walls'

Camero-Tech's Xaver 1000 uses an advanced AI-based tracking algorithm to detect objects and people behind walls, the company said. | Continue reading


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Tesla laying off workers who just started, withdrawing offers as job cuts begin

Elon Musk said in early June he had a "super bad feeling" about a recession and that the electric car maker would need to cut 10% of its workforce. | Continue reading


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Meta bans staff from open discussion of Roe vs. Wade

Meta told employees on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade amid concerns it'd create a "hostile work environment." | Continue reading


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How the US plans to plug 1M toxic 'orphan' oil wells

Nine million Americans live near an orphan oil or gas well leaking out methane. One ex-oil exec and his team are hunting them down and plugging them. | Continue reading


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Netflix confirms another round of layoffs, cutting around 300 roles

A Netflix spokesperson said the company cut around 300 jobs on Thursday, the latest round in job cuts as it faces economic strains. | Continue reading


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The starting salaries for Harvard MBAs

Harvard reports the median salary for 2021 MBA graduates was $150,000 with an expected signing bonus of $30,000. | Continue reading


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Leaked email shows Bolt offering to buy back shares from the laid off employees

One Bolt engineer borrowed nearly $100,000 and then found himself on the hook to repay much of it quickly after being laid off just months later. | Continue reading


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Amazon is giving Alexa the ability to mimic anyone's voice, dead or alive

Amazon's head scientist for Alexa said its voice-changing capability can help users remember the loved ones they lost to COVID-19. | Continue reading


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AI Discrimination Is a Far Bigger Problem Than Sentience

A Google engineer voiced his theory that a chatbot was sentient. Experts say it's not that clever and the hype overshadows the real threat of AI bias. | Continue reading


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Welcome to Remoteville

Building new cities from scratch will provide remote workers with cheaper housing, better schools, and smarter government. | Continue reading


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US new-home sales just plunged to pandemic-era lows

Sales of new homes in the US slowed to an annual pace of 591,000 units in April, falling well below the 750,000-unit forecast to a two-year low. | Continue reading


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Unilever unhappy with Dollar Shave Club deal

Michael Dubin's Dollar Shave Club was supposed to teach Unilever to sell directly to consumers. Insiders say the $1 billion deal hasn't worked out. | Continue reading


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Putin is winning the war over Ukraine – both on and off the battlefield

From soaring gas prices in America to stronger alliances in Africa, Putin's invasion of Ukraine is paying dividends all over the world. | Continue reading


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Climate VC World Fund Adds PwC as Anchor LP to $365M Fund

The investor was created by the founder of tree-planting search engine Ecosia. It writes checks worth up to 10 million euros. | Continue reading


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US TikTok Data Repeated Accessed by China

Leaked audio obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals that China-based engineers for TikTok's parent company had access to US data for months. | Continue reading


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The Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

A recap of 'When Genius Failed', the book detailing the horrific collapse of Long-Term Capital Management back in 1998. | Continue reading


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19M for Lunch with Buffet

The 91-year-old investing legend is bowing out of the annual fundraising event with a final lunch alongside the anonymous bidder and guests. | Continue reading


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Babel Finance is freezing withdrawals as Crypto downward spiral continues

Babel Finance will temporarily stop allowing users to take out their crypto holdings, the second lending firm to do so this week behind Celsius. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk told Twitter employees that workers who are 'exceptional' can

Not everyone likes working from home. Elon Musk, potential Twitter owner, said the "bias definitely needs to be strongly toward working in person." | Continue reading


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The 'craziest thing' about seizing Russian superyachts is US has to pay for them

The global crackdown on Russian assets has deprived many of its oligarchs of their superyachts, but those seizures also have a cost for the US. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk says Tesla 'worth a lot of money or zero' based on self-driving tech

Elon Musk has been promising to develop self-driving cars since 2015, when he first predicted the tech would be ready in three years. | Continue reading


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$22.5 M Florida Penthouse Sold in Largest US Cryptocurrency Real Estate Deal

The penthouse is one of 16 luxury units in the Arte building, and features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a wraparound deck with ocean views. | Continue reading


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Kraken Offers Employees 4 Months Severance If They Leave Before June 20th

CEO Jesse Powell unveiled Kraken's "Jet Ski Program," which incentivizes exits from people who aren't down for the cause, the New York Times reported. | Continue reading


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What life looks like in a land so wealthy it doesn't track poverty (2019)

In Monaco, a tiny city-state on the French Riviera, an estimated one-third of residents are millionaires, and poverty is virtually nonexistent. | Continue reading


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I Was Laid Off by Coinbase. I'm Frustrated but Not Surprised

As crypto crashed, Miguel Cuevas found out he was one of 1,100 employees that Coinbase laid off. He says tensions are high after recent turmoil. | Continue reading


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Terra Luna crash: CTO of Tether welcomes fair regulation of stablecoin market

Paolo Ardonio, CTO of Tether, calls for fair regulation of stablecoins following Luna's crash, and reveals why he's optimistic about Tether's future. | Continue reading


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Twitter insiders expect Elon Musk to use 'firehose' to renegotiate Twitter deal

A trove of user data is coming Elon Musk's way, Twitter expects him to make "wild accusations" with it — and find the bots he's been looking for. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

Depp vs. Heard trial: Here's how much top YouTube livestreamers earned

Emily D. Baker, LegalBytes, and Rekieta Law were the top-earning law YouTubers from Super Chat during the six-week Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 2 years ago

The New Walking Dead

With fundraising drying up and little to show in way of meaningful returns, many new funds that raised in recent years face a harsh reckoning. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk to attend all hands meeting at Twitter this week

Elon Musk is in the process of acquiring Twitter for $44 billion. His public comments have upset many Twitter employees. | Continue reading


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Google lost the battle for machine learning to Meta

Google is pushing a new project to replace TensorFlow. But it will be a major challenge to unseat Meta's PyTorch, which has won over developers. | Continue reading


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Google engineer thinks AI bot has become sentient

Blake Lemoine published conversations with the AI, which he called a "person," but Google said the evidence doesn't support his claim of sentience. | Continue reading


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