White-hat hackers became millionaires

Santiago Lopez, 19, lives in Argentina with his parents. Nathaniel Wakelam, 24, lives in Thailand and works for a security consultancy. | Continue reading


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Vintage photos reveal what America looked like before the EPA

Before the EPA, the US environment was not federally protected. Here are 35 vintage photos showing US cities before regulations limited the damage. | Continue reading


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Larry Ellison reportedly says Uber's business model is 'almost worthless'

The billionaire cofounder or Oracle and Tesla board member isn't a fan of WeWork either, he told a group of entrepreneurs at his San Francisco home. | Continue reading


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Employee dies at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters in apparent suicide

One person died at a Facebook office building in Menlo Park on Thursday, police said. The cause of death is thought to be suicide. | Continue reading


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WeWork cofounder demanded employees be fired because she disliked their 'energy'

The Wall Street Journal reported that Rebekah "pushes to infuse spiritualism in We," according to former employees who worked with her. | Continue reading


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SpaceX wants to buy out residents of a small Texas hamlet

Residents in Boca Chica Village, where SpaceX has built a skunkworks to develop Mars rocket ships, received buyout offers from the company this week. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

New report on the 737 Max blames 'inexperienced pilots' not Boeing

The Boeing 737 Max has been grounded worldwide for months after two fatal crashes. A new report suggests that Boeing doesn't deserve all the blame. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

KFC is serving fried chicken sandwiched between 2 glazed doughnuts

Customers in Virginia and Pennsylvania can get the Kentucky Fried Chicken and Donuts sandwich: a chicken fillet between two glazed doughnuts. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

The US Navy confirmed that mysterious videos spotting UFOs are genuine

A Navy spokesman said the objects are "unidentified aerial phenomena" and said it would not publicly release any theory on what the objects are. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

SpaceX may be a $120 bn company if Starlink global internet service takes off

Financial analysts are looking at Elon Musk's plans to surround Earth with thousands of high-speed internet satellites — and they see a lot of green. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Viral AI selfie-classifier ImageNet Roulette is part of an AI bias project

ImageNet Roulette went viral on Twitter for allowing people to upload their selfies and then have an AI try and guess what kind of person they are. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

FBI agents raided the home of MyPayrollHR's top executive

The home of Michael Mann, MyPayrollHR's president, was raided Monday afternoon. MyPayrollHR closed suddenly on Sept. 5, spurring an investigation. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

iOS 13 users getting notifications Facebook, etc. harvesting data with Bluetooth

Users who download iOS 13 on iPhone are getting notifications that apps like Facebook and Youtube are attempting to harvest data using Bluetooth. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

A man was charged with fraudulently earning more than 42M frequent-flyer miles

Prosecutors say the Delta SkyBonus miles that the man fraudulently earned and redeemed were worth $1.75 million. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Real Losers in Moviepass Were Retail Investors

Contrary to a popular media narrative, venture capitalists were not the ones who lost money on MoviePass' downfall. Retail investors were. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Fortune 500 leadership is more gender diverse, but racial diversity lags

Women filled 183 of the 462 open board room positions at Fortune 500 companies, according to a new report. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Google is finally changing its algorithm to boost original reporting

News algorithms aren't very good at highlighting original and local reporting, leading to economic and democratic troubles. Google wants to fix that. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

42% of millennials overestimated starting salaries vs. student loan debt

The average millennial earns $35,455. The average student-loan debt per 2018 graduate is $29,800. College tuition has increased faster than income. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Google ditched system similar to Tesla Autopilot in 2013

In 2013, Google's self-driving car division was developing a semi-autonomous system that would allow for hands-free driving on highways. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

CA and AL aren't participating in the multi-state Google antitrust case

Every other US state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, is taking part in the inquiry. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Scientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth

K2-18 b is our "best candidate for habitability," since it's the only known exoplanet with water vapor, an atmosphere, and potential for liquid water. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Trucking 'bloodbath': 4,500 truck drivers lost jobs in August

Truck drivers' earnings have sank in 2019. Now, the federal government says 4,500 truck drivers have lost their jobs in Aug. alone. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

SoftBank is asking for the WeWork IPO to be put on hold

WeWork's chilly reception on Wall Street reportedly has SoftBank asking to hit the brakes on the IPO. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

The CEO of a Viagra startup accused a rival of ripping off company's website

The design and much of the text are the same, Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano said in a Medium post on Monday. And yes, he took screenshots. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Microbiome startup uBiome files for bankruptcy

The poop-testing firm said it hopes to entice an investor to purchase it for its scientific knowledge. It also aims to sell its sole remaining product at CVS. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Insiders say an ambitious MIT Media Lab project is mostly smoke and mirrors

MIT Media Lab staff faked key elements of its "personal food computer" project, insiders told Business Insider. In one instance, staff were told to place... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Malcolm Gladwell's famous 10k hour rule isn't holding up in new research

As the Guardian reports, new research indicates the 10,000-hour rule alone doesn't account for mastery in a given skill, like playing the violin. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Using a giant robot hand feels 'weirdly natural'

Shadow Robotics is a London company which has been building robot hands for 22 years. Now, it's demonstrating a new haptic-feedback glove. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Yes, a physicist once lit his cigarette with a nuclear explosion. Here's how

A popular Reddit thread about an "atomic cigarette lighter" seems true. In 1952, the physicist Ted Taylor used a nuclear blast to ignite his smoke. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Apple scraps iPhone Walkie Talkie feature for texting without service

Apple was reportedly working on a feature that would let iPhone customers text without cell service, but those plans have been halted — for now. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Instagram influencers in countries where likes were removed see less engagement

The removal of likes is designed to improve the lives of consumers, but influencers are starting to feel the impact of the change. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Hundreds of skeletons were found in a Himalayan lake. Some died 1k yrs apart

A Himalayan lake was the final resting place of an estimated 800 skeletons. Researchers still don't know what killed them. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Light Phone 2 “dumb phone”

The Light Phone 2 is the successor to Light's original device from 2017. It's sort of the anti-smartphone: it only has a few features, and zero apps. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism

In what WeWork describes as an "unwinding," its CEO has agreed to pay back the $5.9 million he was paid for rights to the word "we." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

California legislators to vote on bill that could devastate Uber and Lyft

Uber and Lyft really don't want Assembly Bill 5, otherwise known as the Dynamex bill, to become law, forcing them to classify drivers as employees. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Tesla owners locked out of their cars after app stopped working

Panicked Tesla drivers took to Twitter to complain and tweeted at Tesla and Elon Musk to ask what is going on. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Coolest Details of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Serving NYC

Amazon's fulfillment centers are known for being big, and the first one in New York City is no exception — but that's not what impressed me most. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Successful retail brands that are backed by Y Combinator

Seed accelerator Y Combinator has helped produce and support some of the most successful startups in the world today, including Airbnb and Dropbox. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Subtle ways technology is making humanity worse

Technology has become so ingrained in society that it's hard to remember what the world was like before it. That's not necessarily a good thing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

New York City's first-ever Amazon fulfillment center

We went inside Amazon's state-of-the-art New York City fulfillment center, the first of its kind in New York State. Take a look! | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Pentagon admits China could outpace US on AI without changes

China's artificial intelligence programs benefit from its civil-military integration, something the US military has been struggling to cultivate. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

US intelligence: Russia was recovering missile from the sea when it exploded

Sources familiar with an intelligence report told CNBC that Russia was trying to recover the weapon after another unsuccessful flight test. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Reactgate: React, started at Facebook, adopts new code of conduct

Women who called out white supremacy in the React community were harassed on Twitter. React leaders also temporarily deactivated their accounts. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Swedish school fined over $20k for using facial recognition on students

The attendance of 22 high-school students was monitored via surveillance cameras over a period of three weeks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers

Juul CEO Ken Burns said while long-term effects of vaping are unknown, Juul products are "legal today" and "tested for toxicity." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Grace Hopper Celebration Drops Palantir as a Sponsor

Earlier on Wednesday, a Change.org petition was published asking AnitaB.org to drop Palantir as a sponsor of the Grace Hopper Celebration. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Qantas Airways bans all 15-inch MacBook Pro from checked luggage

Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro is banned from being stored in checked bags on Qantas Airlines flights, making it the latest airline to impose such rules. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Uber and Lyft are taking a much bigger slice of drivers' fares than they admit

The car-news site Jalopnik asked Uber and Lyft drivers to send in their receipts in an effort to analyze how big of a cut the companies take. | Continue reading


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