Maps that explain how America lives, spends, and believes

From how they trace their roots to what they do for work, to the names they give their children, here's how Americans live across the country. | Continue reading


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The deadly poison sarin was detected in a mailbag at Facebook's offices

Routine tests for sarin detected the substance in a mail bag at Facebook's offices, according to a Menlo Park Fire Department official. | Continue reading


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SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites lost, comp. seems pleased with first batch

SpaceX just revealed new details about the internet-providing satellites the company launched into orbit in May. | Continue reading


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‘Billionaire Bunkers’ for the wealthy during the apocalypse

Companies are building doomsday shelters that cater to the apocalyptic fears of the world's wealthy elite. | Continue reading


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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes faces jail time for fraud charges; 2020 trial

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former president Sunny Balwani are awaiting trial on 11 counts related to fraud. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Vietnam

President Trump left open the possibility of imposing tariffs on Vietnam during an interview on Fox Business. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Why FedEx Dropped Amazon as a Customer

FedEx announced earlier this month that it wouldn't move Amazon's packages anymore. The package giant's most recent quarterly report shows why. | Continue reading


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Google Employees Are Petitioning San Francisco Pride to Ban Google

Read the full letter from almost 100 Google employees sent to San Francisco Pride's board of directors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Tesla just outsold Mercedes-Benz in the US for the first time

In the third quarter this year, Tesla sold 69,925 vehicles in the US, while Mercedes-Benz sold 66,542 — it's taken Tesla a mere eight years to overtake... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

GitHub CEO says Nigeria has one of the fastest growing developer communities

GitHub plans to double down on Nigeria's education programs to better accommodate the peculiar challenges developers face in the country. | Continue reading


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The pilots accuse Boeing of putting profit before safety, and say the continued grounding of the 737 Max has made their careers less certain. | Continue reading


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The most common language in every US state (besides English and Spanish)

According to Business Insider tabulations of individual-level census data, German, French, and Vietnamese are common in several states. | Continue reading


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The Last Confederate Troops to Surrender in the Civil War Were Native American

Native Americans like brigadier-general Stand Waite saw the federal government and its forced evictions as their real enemy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Google is giving up on competing with Apple's iPad

Instead, the company says it shift resources and focus more attention to its Pixelbook laptop line. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

What happened to the unused lunar modules?

When Congress canceled NASA's final Apollo missions, it had extra moon landers on its hands. Three are in museums, and two might have been scrapped. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Respond to email, according to a Wharton psychologist

Being slow to respond to email is a sign of an ineffective boss, according to Microsoft. Plus, it's downright rude. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mattermost Raises $50m from YC for Open Source Slack

The messaging app raised $50 million just 4 months after its first funding. And investors aren't scared that it's competing with Slack and Microsoft. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg is losing the confidence of Facebook staff

Mark Zuckerberg is not as popular with employees as he once was, according to data from anonymous review site Glassdoor. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

US lawmakers are demanding scrutiny and a freeze of Facebook cryptocurrency

Facebook announced Libra, its digital currency, on Tuesday — and the pushback has already begun. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Facebook was called a 'chaos factory' and maker of 'data voodoo dolls'

Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee didn't hold back in their criticisms, although Cook didn't mention Facebook by name. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

It's been 100 years since we've seen anybody like Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO is more like an old-school automotive entrepreneur than a modern-day business manager. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Navy SEALs are looking into the keto diet to be even more effective on missions

A US Special Operations Command official said a ketogenic diet may help elite troops like Navy SEALs perform at the highest levels on missions. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

An Instagram star with 2M followers couldn't sell 36 T-shirts

Some have suggested the problem was that Arii failed to promote her product well enough, and that it didn't fit with her brand, either. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Uber, Visa and other big companies have signed on to Facebook's cryptocurrency

Facebook is almost ready to unveil its secretive cryptocurrency. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Saudi Arabia is hunting down women who flee country via their IMEI number

Cell phones are often Saudi women's one route to independence. But, INSIDER has learned, Saudi are hunting women via their phone's unique IMEI code. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple laying groundwork for smart glasses

Apple is reportedly working on a pair of smart glasses, to debut sometime in 2020. At WWDC 2019, the company hinted at what's to come. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Top DOJ just outlined why agency has everything it needs to go after Big Tech

Makan Delrahim said the current antitrust laws are more than enough to protect competition in the tech industry. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple laid the groundwork for smart glasses at WWDC

Apple is reportedly working on a pair of smart glasses, to debut sometime in 2020. At WWDC 2019, the company hinted at what's to come. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple's $5B 'spaceship' campus isn't attached to the planet

Apple's brand-new campus is built to withstand a major earthquake, and it accomplishes that by being detached from the surface of the planet. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

YouTube CEO refuses to admit the site radicalizes users in spite of the evidence

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was interviewed at Recode's Code Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on Monday. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Boeing wants Indonesian courts, to substantially reduce potential compensation

Boeing is talking to 737 Max crash victims' families about a settlement, but it previously said it wanted to move the cases from the US to Indonesia. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

GM-backed robo-taxi startup Cruise Automation struggles with self-driving tech

Cruise Automation is reportedly facing technological issues as it seeks to launch an autonomous ride-hailing service by the end of this year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

In most ways, plant-based burgers are similar to the fast-food icons — but they actually tend to contain significantly more sodium. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Predictions from old sci-fi movies that came true

Movies like "Blade Runner," "The Terminator," and "2001: A Space Odyssey" all predicted modern-day tech like military drones and smart homes. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

SpaceX's Texas launch site for Starship Mars rockets: photos

Boca Chica is home to a beach, a village, and SpaceX's Texas launch site, where Elon Musk's company is developing its Starship rocket for Mars. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Boeing's nightmare year gets even worse

Boeing on Sunday warned that hundreds of 737 Max and Next Generation planes may be affected by a batch of faulty slat tracks — a device on the wing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Russian Sailors Appeared to Be Sunbathing During Destroyers’ Near Miss

Videos of a dangerous close encounter between a Russian destroyer and a US Navy cruiser appear to show Russian sailors sunbathing on the deck. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

The US military called Taiwan a country

No US president for decades has been so supportive of Taiwan, and the US and China now find themselves in uncharted territory. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains why he's trying to colonize the moon

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes that to save the planet, we'll need to move manufacturing off the earth and onto the moon. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

US Police departments using Amazon-owned Ring to create a surveillance network

Some police departments have been offering deals on Ring smart doorbells with the condition that users hand over recorded footage upon request. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

How to use Blind, the anonymous workplace chat app Tesla blocked

Blind is a popular app among workers at Silicon Valley giants like Uber, Facebook, and Google, where employees can anonymously post and network. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

'Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance,' said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate action among activist Facebook investors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Apple taking on Facebook/Google with focus on privacy, but the plan could fail

Apple's unveiled new privacy features on Monday that could help it with consumers, but hurt it with developers and regulators. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

StartRocket wants to use cubesat satellites to display advertisements in the sky

Although StartRocket is getting pushback from scientists for these satellites, it believes that commercializing space is inevitable. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

After 38,000 layoffs, Wall Street wakes up to 'peak car'

"The pain is just beginning" for the auto business, said one analyst who expects global auto demand to fall 3% this year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

New smartphone of 2019 so far, and it only costs $500

If you'd told me last year that the most exciting Android smartphone of 2019 would come from Asus — not Google, or Samsung — I'd call you crazy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Huawei has reportedly stopped its smartphone production after US blacklisting

Huawei is reportedly stopping its smartphone production to "reassess" its target to become the world's top smartphone vendor by the end of 2020. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

MapR Seeks a Buyer to Avoid Shut Down

MapR said it is "actively pursuing a strategic transaction" that may allow it to keep the site open and retain some of the employees. | Continue reading


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