Police at Twitch HQ in SF after possible shooting threat

After Twitch learned of a workplace threat on Tuesday, the company asked employees to work from home on Wednesday as police investigate. | Continue reading


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Cathay Pacific uses cameras to monitor passengers in the airport and on flights

The Hong Kong-based airline, ranked one of the best in the world, told Business Insider it uses CCTV cameras in airport lounges and planes. | Continue reading


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Students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens (2017)

Students told researchers they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer. | Continue reading


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Canadians worried by plan to let Americans import drugs

OTTAWA (AP) — A U.S. plan to let Americans legally import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada is causing concern among Canadians that it could cause... | Continue reading


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Amazon is disabling its Dash buttons

Launched in 2015, the gadgets allowed customers to order particular items at the touch of a button. Dozens of brands offered one. | Continue reading


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Google to stop listening in temporarily after data leak

The ban comes as a result of a July report which found Google Assistant users had been recorded by their devices unknowingly. | Continue reading


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Why American bros can’t get enough of White Claw hard seltzer

As hard seltzer fever sweeps the nation, the trend is becoming synonymous with an unexpected demographic — young millennial men who identify as bros. | Continue reading


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Secretary of Defense is reviewing $10B Amazon contract

The US Secretary of Defense will reportedly... | Continue reading


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Armory (YC W17) Raises $28MM to Commercialize Netflix and Google's Spinnaker

The startup Armory builds a business around the open source project Spinnaker. Its CEO explains how it can eliminate a "soul sucking experience." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A 33-year-old woman who worked for Amazon is the suspect in the Capital One hack

Thompson is accused of stealing data from millions of Capital One customers, including Social Security numbers and linked bank accounts. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Capital One found out about its breach only by emailed tip

Capital One's data was breached some time in the last five months. Social security numbers, bank details, and more were taken from millions of people. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars

On July 1, Tokyo placed export restrictions on three key materials that South Korea needs to make semiconductors and display screens. | Continue reading


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Capital One data breach, affecting tens of millions

Capital One says the breach it affected an estimated 100 million US individuals and approximately 6 million in Canada. | Continue reading


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Australia proposes tougher scrutiny if Facebook’s and Google’s IP

Australian regulators on Friday published the results of an 18-month investigation into platforms like Facebook and Google. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Amazon Ring tells police to advertise services for free Ring cameras

Amazon's Ring is essentially using police departments to advertise its smart doorbell cameras products and services. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple is buying the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business in a $1B deal

Apple is acquiring the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business in a deal valued at $1 billion. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook Co-Founder Reportedly Talking to Government About How to Break Up FB

Chris Hughes, who famously wrote an op-ed saying Facebook should be broken up, has become an outspoken critic of his former employer. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Programmer faces 10 years in jail for inserting a logic bomb into a spreadsheet

Here's a dark tale of a contract worker who tried to force his employer to remain dependent on him by using a "logic bomb." | Continue reading


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Women who helped make the July 20, 1969 moon landing possible 50 years ago

While Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man," dozens of women were hard at work, making sure NASA's Apollo moon program was a success. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

22-year-old launching a credit card that automatically cancels your free trials

DoNotPay's Josh Browder has created a new virtual credit card that automatically cancels your free trials online. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

NSO claims all your cloud IP is at risk

The Financial Times said it reviewed NSO sales documents saying its system could get a target's location-data history, archived messages, and photos. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Feds charge Ohio opioid distributor that sent 6M pain pills to small town

The indictment says the charges were necessary to combat the company's profits from vulnerable areas that are the hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Congressman: Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency will be worse than 9/11

Congressman Brad Sherman compared Facebook's proposed Libra cryptocurrency to 9/11, claiming it will result in more American deaths over time. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Jeff Bezos: space travel essential as humans are 'destroying planet'

Jeff Bezos doesn't believe humans should abandon Earth in favour of another planet, but rather we could use space as a resource. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Why Elon Musk's plan to give us 'superhuman' brains is doomed to fail

According to Musk's claims, his company's brain-computer interface "will enable anyone who wants to have super human cognition, to have it". | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

There are 4 major types of workplace stress

Workplace stress is harmful for both you and your work. Here's how one CEO addresses major stressors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

American kids want to be YouTube stars: survey

Children ages eight to 12 in the US, UK and China were recently polled in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg got $1B richer following the news of Facebook's $5B fine

Facebook is reportedly facing a $5 billion fine from the FTC. The stock's pop in the wake of the news actually increased Mark Zuckerberg's net worth. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Air Force new AC-130J Ghostrider gunship does first combat mission

The AC-130J Ghostrider's first combat mission took place in June in Afghanistan, where it deployed to relieve its predecessor, the AC-130U Spooky. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

The FTC's $5B fine for Facebook is so meaningless

The settlement of the FTC's investigation into the Cambridge Analytica mess will further cement the Facebook's CEO's feeling of invulnerability. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Scientists photograph 'spooky' quantum entanglement for the first time

The image may not look like much, but it shows a strange property of the universe called quantum entanglement. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Trump mute US support for Hong Kong in exchange for progress in the trade war

According to the Financial Times, President Donald Trump made the offer at the last G20 summit. Shortly after, China and the US reopened trade talks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Modern human skull that's 210k years old found in Greek cave

Scientists think modern humans left Africa 70,000 years ago. But a 210,000-year-old skull in Greece indicates that some migration happened earlier. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A nuclear reactor in Indiana has gone all-digital, could mark a turning point

A nuclear engineer said "there are no scenarios which would put the Purdue facility in an unsafe state." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Trump on course for new trade war with France over plans to tax US tech firms

Trump is worried that France's digital services tax, which would place a 3% levy on the French revenues of firms like Amazon, unfairly targets the US. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Linkedin Is Down

The LinkedIn outage seems to be mostly affecting the US and parts of Europe, according to Down Detector. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

London's Gatwick Airport just suffered failure of its air traffic control system

Flights were forced to land at other airports, and more were delayed. The airport said it was working to get back online as quickly as possible. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

How KFC made Christmas all about fried chicken – in Japan

Over the last four decades, KFC has managed to make fried chicken synonymous with Christmastime in Japan. Here's how. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg's security chief leaving after investigation into allegations

Mark Zuckerberg's family office says that there was no evidence to substantiate allegations of misconduct against Liam Booth, but he's leaving anyway. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

30% of Amazon Employees Predict Site Will Crash on Prime Day

The survey was conducted by Blind, a popular app among workers at Silicon Valley companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Facebook. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Dead sailors stopped a 'planetary catastrophe' aboard a secret submarine

Their heroism prevented the submarine fire from being a broader disaster, a likely reference to their actions to prevent a nuclear reactor meltdown. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Clothing industry adopts buy now pay later to win over cash-strapped shoppers

Abercrombie & Fitch is rolling out a buy-now, pay-later program, joining Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Truckers' fears have soared to recession-level highs

While the economy has mostly posted numbers that indicate health, truckers like Christopher Powell have seen their pay hit the skids. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

7-Eleven Japan shut down a mobile payments app with simple security flaw

The flaw, it seems, was that anybody could reset anybody else's password to 7pay, the 7-Eleven Japan mobile payments app. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack

By default, Slack keeps all messages forever. The EFF is calling Slack out on this policy for not putting more control over data in the hands of users. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Startup that planned to deliver babies in space [is] suspending operations

The startup announced its ambitions to become the first company to allow safe human reproduction in space in October. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

WeWork is not even close to being profitable – it loses $219k every hour

As WeWork gears up for an IPO, it's going to have to get investors focusing on its massive growth — not its staggering losses. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Chinese scientists are hiding secret messages in whale sounds (2018)

Camouflaging undersea signals as "ocean noise," which is typically filtered out by underwater reconnaissance systems, could be a game changer. | Continue reading


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