Whole Foods employees say they're frustrated by a strict new dress code

The new policy, which was announced internally last week, will apply to the company's nearly 500 US stores and will go into effect November 2. | Continue reading


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Farmers in Thailand are using armies of 10K ducks to keep rice pest-free

Rice farmers are enlisting "ield chasing ducks to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest, benefitting the environment in the process. | Continue reading


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The We Company is changing its name back to WeWork

The name change comes almost two years after WeWork first rebranded itself and well into a pandemic that has slammed its business. | Continue reading


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Caper debuts AI-driven self-checkout solution

Caper's self-checkout solution uses a small counter enabled with AI and computer vision to create plug-and-play autonomous checkout tools. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Edtech provides a pandemic lifeline but only if students surrender their privacy

Tech companies see a gold mine of data and potential customers. Privacy advocates fear the pandemic is forcing students and parents to give up rights. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Facebook's new ban on holocaust denial won't extend to other genocides

Facebook did not explain why it was not applying its new ban on Holocaust denial to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Musk's SpaceX partners with US military to deliver weapons by rockets

The SpaceX rocket will be designed to blast 80 metric tons of cargo into space and complete a journey from Florida to Afghanistan in about an hour. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

ZeroAvia completes world's first hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger flight

The flight was a part of ZeroAvia's UK government-backed HyFlyer project, which also completed the country's first electric commercial-sized aircraft flight. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft plans to release a browser-based app for Xbox Game Pass

Gaming boss Phil Spencer said that Microsoft is looking for ways to get around Apple App Store rules that have blocked Game Pass streaming on iPhone. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon revealed its first electric delivery van of a 100k-strong EV fleet

Photos show clay and styrofoam models of the vehicles, which Amazon says will start delivering packages in 2021. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Geneva introduces world highest minimum wage of $25 an hour

People in the Swiss canton voted to pay workers at least 23 Swiss francs an hour, around $25. It is one of the most expensive places in the world. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Most TVs don't support next-gen Xbox and Playstation high-end graphics

The next-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles are outrageously powerful, but you may need to buy a new TV to take full advantage of that power. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y

In recent months, Tesla has faced repeated complaints from customers about quality control issues. But a loose roof is a new one. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Michael Cohen says he's working to free Reality Winner

President Trump's former personal attorney told Business Insider that helping Reality Winner is part of making amends for his past. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The Cleveland Clinic, which worked as a health adviser for the debate, said there was a "low risk of exposure" to the event, but there wasn't zero risk. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

UK government missed 16,000 coronavirus cases due to Excel limits

Officials failed to report 15,841 new cases between September 25 and October 2. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Interview with Dylan Field, CEO and Co-Founder of Figma

Figma CEO Dylan Field started working in design while interning at Flipboard. Now, he's leading a startup that's changing the game for designers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The EU wants to limit which apps Apple and Google pre-install on your phone

"Gatekeepers shall not pre-install exclusively their own applications nor require from any third party operating system developers or hardware manufacturers to pre-install exclusively gatekeepers' own application," the paper said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Engineers found the location of an elusive leak on the space station

The source of the small leak on the International Space Station is on a module on the station's Russian side, according to NASA. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

"I see the future as definitely being more flexible," Pichai said during a video interview for Time 100 this week. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tesla Model 3 seen on video hitting a fake pedestrian in automatic braking test

The clip was widely shared on Weibo and Twitter. In the US, AAA found problems with Tesla's braking assistance last year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Climate change could prompt a new mass migration across the US

Wildfires, heat, and rising sea levels are forcing Americans to reckon with the implications of climate change in their own backyards. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Median US worker salaries could have been $102,000 without inequality

A Rand report finds the median salary could have been $102,000, instead of $50,000, for a full-time worker if wages and GDP grew at the same rate. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

NASA narrows source of leak on the space station to 2 areas

NASA hasn't yet found the culprit behind a small leak on the International Space Station. But it has now ruled out most modules. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Tim Kendall – Facebook intentionally made its product as addictive as cigarettes

Former director Tim Kendall said Facebook "took a page from Big Tobacco's playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon is a $3.9B-per-year customer the Post Office can't afford to lose

Documents obtained by American Oversight show Amazon accounted for $3.9 billion in revenue and $1.6 billion in profit for the Post Office in 2019. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Sources told The Atlantic that the Trump campaign was planning to install loyal electors in swing states with Republican-led legislatures. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

China: Loss of access to fast internet in plans to expand behavior rating system

The country plans to include cheating at university in its social credit system which determines access to transport, mortgages, and even promotions. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Hospital for ICE accused of mass hysterectomies says it only carried out 2

A whistleblower claimed hysterectomies were performed on women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Centre. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out

The startup has been described as the Uber for evicting people. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s dongle problem isn’t getting any better

Apple removed the headphone jack from the iPhone and its laptops are USB-C only. You need adapters or dongles to connect to HDMI or wired headphones. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The Washington Post reported that the White House scuttled a plan for the Postal Service to send out over 650 million masks to avoid causing "panic." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

"The moment he makes that calculation," a source says, "we will just know because Navalny is dead." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

TikTok has approached Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom about becoming CEO

TikTok's CEO position has been vacant since late August, when Kevin Mayer resigned from his position after three months on the job. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Google is reportedly cracking down on employee message boards

Google will now require more active moderation from the owners of internal discussion groups and mandate that they participate in moderation training. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Airline workers have lower rates of Covid-19 than the general population

Low infection rates of COVID-19 among airline workers, including flight attendants, suggest that safety measures on planes are working. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Spotify reportedly fighting with employees about hosting episodes of Joe Rogan

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed employee concerns about "The Joe Rogan Experience" in an all-hands meeting on Wednesday, sources told Vice. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Apple gave FBI access to iCloud of protester accused of setting cop cars on fire

It shows just how valuable smartphone data can be to an investigation, and contrasts with previous public clashes between the FBI and Apple. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Apple says 'Fortnite' hype is fading; Epic started a legal battle to create buzz

Apple says Epic Games is using a legal fight over App Store payments to "reinvigorate interest in 'Fortnite.'" | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Stripe will cut pay, offer bonuses to employees who relocate

Several tech companies have started examining employee pay as more workers leave expensive cities like San Francisco. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Does anyone have a copy of the 6600 word memo mentioned in this story?

The employee said she has "blood on my hands" as political strife has broken out in many nations following Facebook's lack of action. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

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


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

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


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

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


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

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 | 3 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


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

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 | 3 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


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