One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the entire […] | Continue reading
People didn't start using the term "smartphone"... | Continue reading
Australian fund managers are in a race to launch Australia's first bitcoin ETF, after the corporate regulator gave early approval. | Continue reading
Full vaccination halved this risk by 47%, though partial vaccination was not as effective at this, said the study published in The Lancet. | Continue reading
While working from home prompted people to reassess work-life balance, some opportunists saw a shot at a life hack. | Continue reading
Facebook fired 52 employees from January 2014 to August 2015 for abusing company access to user data for personal means, according to "An Ugly Truth." | Continue reading
This isn't another story about that dress, rather it's about the way that humans see the world. | Continue reading
Russia is building a nuclear-powered 'space tug' that can transport heavy cargo in deep space. The planned mission will last 50 months. | Continue reading
The nation’s peak body for doctors has warned that Australia’s current strategy of COVID-19 elimination would keep the country’s international borders closed for decades. | Continue reading
Uber claimed a $4.5 billion global operating loss in 2019 for tax purposes, despite bringing in $5.8 billion, an Australian research group found. | Continue reading
Uber claimed a $4.5 billion global operating loss in 2019 for tax purposes, despite bringing in $5.8 billion, an Australian research group found. | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for not knowing the name until today, but the oddly-named Octopus Deploy may soon be lauded alongside the likes of Canva and Atlassian as one of Australia’s coveted tech unicorns. | Continue reading
The Bridgewater boss said governments "don't want other monies to be operating, or competing, because things can get out of control." | Continue reading
In an interview published by The Verge on March 16, Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, weighed in on the future of tech regulation in Australia and the world. | Continue reading
A security researcher said he warned SolarWinds in 2019 that the IT company’s update server could be accessed by using the password “solarwinds123,” according to a Tuesday Reuters report. | Continue reading
A tiny island microstate has today launched proceedings that could have profound repercussions for who controls the internet. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the US military plan to build a rocket capable of delivering 80 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world in 60 minutes. | Continue reading
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has told staff to disclose all sexual relationships they have with anyone linked to the firm, not just with their colleagues. | Continue reading
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the global auto industry faced a period of unprecedented change. Many automakers weren’t dealing with it very well, practicing the well-honed art of kicking the can down the road on everything from electrification to self-driving vehicles. | Continue reading
60% of Americans agree that newly confirmed coronavirus cases are primarily caused by new infections, according to a new survey – but most Republicans blame increased testing instead. | Continue reading
Apple is finally giving in: The next version of iOS, the iPhone operating system, will allow iPhone users to change their default web browser and email apps. | Continue reading
Their only post on LinkedIn refers to themselves as a dairy company. It’s probably the best, and only, description you’ll ever get of the startup behind AI-generated feet photos, an app for making stock investments based on astrological signs, and Nike sneakers filled with Holy … | Continue reading
Bill Gates is plugging money into building factories for seven promising coronavirus vaccine candidates, even though it will mean wasting billions of dollars. | Continue reading
Amazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid “non-essential travel” domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider. | Continue reading
Earlier on Thursday, Russian police raided the Moscow office of NGINX (pronounced “Engine-X”), a web server company that was acquired earlier this year by F5 Networks, ZDNet’s Catalin Cimpanu reported. | Continue reading
Companies like Tesla, ChargePoint, and Electrify America (started by Volkswagen) are expanding the availability of electric-vehicle charging stations, but there is still work ahead of them. | Continue reading
A small Oregon town that can’t afford to employ police officers for night shifts plans to install security cameras and recruit a group of volunteers to man them. | Continue reading
An ambitious project that purported to turn anyone into a farmer with a single tool is scraping by with smoke-and-mirror tactics, employees told Business Insider. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley gut-health startup uBiome has filed for bankruptcy protection, capping months of challenges and setbacks for the once-buzzy startup. | Continue reading
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, still wants to drop nuclear bombs on Mars to transform it into a livable planet for humans – as evidenced by his latest tweet on Friday morning. | Continue reading
Bees are getting so scarce and so valuable that people are stealing hives from almond farms in California and selling them at steep prices. | Continue reading
Just 31 light-years away, one of the closest worlds ever detected could harbour liquid water on its surface. | Continue reading
Atlassian has ushered in a new review system that’s designed to create a better evaluation of how its employees are performing. | Continue reading
200 female inmates in Illinois’ Lincoln Correctional Center were rounded up early one morning in 2011 by a tactical team in riot gear. They were handcuffed and brought to a gym where, “without being told what was happening or why,” they were split into groups, brought into an a … | Continue reading
Walmart is betting on drones as the delivery wars in the US heat up. | Continue reading
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, as people flock to beaches, barbecues, and parties. | Continue reading
Insiders have described a chaotic environment in Panasonic’s battery-making operation in the Nevada desert, one where standard operating procedures go ignored, expensive mistakes are born from carelessness, and half a million pieces of scrap are generated daily. | Continue reading
This year is expected to turn up a shiny freshman class of high-profile public technology companies, from Uber and Slack, to Airbnb and Pinterest. | Continue reading
He is so focused on keeping his start-up alive that he can’t sleep at night. She was asked in an interview if she would be willing to break up with her boyfriend for the job. A young couple want their own family but have no energy for sex after work. | Continue reading
To Jesse Karmazin, a startup founder and Stanford Medical School graduate, blood is the next big government-approved drug. | Continue reading
Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor who has built a reputation for fighting against “political correctness” and “cultural Marxism,” and conservative comedian and pundit Dave Rubin announced Monday that they would launch an alternative to crowdfunding website Patreon following t … | Continue reading
Blippar, the much-hyped British AR startup which once said it was worth $US1.5 billion, has collapsed into administration. | Continue reading