Russian intelligence agents went to Ireland to inspect undersea cables

The agents could be gathering intelligence on deep-sea cables and spying on tech companies based in Dublin, security sources told The Sunday Times. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Michael Bloomberg's employees create book full of his offensive quotes

A book of risqué and off-color sexist remarks purportedly by Michael Bloomberg haunts his presidential campaign. Insider is publishing a copy of it. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Hong Kong's Disneyland used by government to quarantine coronavirus patients

Hong Kong is looking for secure and remote sites to quarantine people that may have the coronavirus in a bid to stop it spreading further. | Continue reading


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Tesla's employee handbook reveals how it expects workers to push boundaries

"Your good ideas mean nothing if you keep them to yourself," says Tesla's employee handbook, called "The Anti-Handbook Handbook." | Continue reading


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Tesla's handbook tells workers they can contact Elon himself if they need to

Tesla's employee handbook, which is titled "The Anti-Handbook Handbook," positions Tesla as an outlier in the auto and tech industries. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Jack Dorsey said Twitter will build remote workforce outside San Francisco

The majority of Twitter will still be at its Bay Area HQ, but Jack Dorsey said he wants to build a company "not entirely dependent on San Francisco." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

CIA bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients and countries

The CIA secretly listened in on communications by spies, diplomats, military officials, calling it "the intelligence coup of the century." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Westerdam cruise ship refused persmission to dock despite no corona infections

The WHO said that there's "no such thing as zero risk" and that countries should uphold the "human rights of travelers" amid the coronavirus outbreak. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

3B Birds Have Disappeared

The skies over the US and Canada are far emptier than they were 50 years ago. Birds are losing their habitats and suffering due to climate change. | Continue reading


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Parking spot in San Francisco for sale for $100k

The parking spot is currently leased out for $300 a month, and the realtor is promoting it as an investment to "park your money" in. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Elon Musk SpaceX satellite business 'likely' to spin off, IPO

It sounds like one of Elon Musk's businesses is planning a spin-off and eventual IPO. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Apple suppliers aim to resume full production in China despite coronavirus fears

iPhone maker Hon Hai Precision Industry Co and other major Apple suppliers in China aim to resume full-scale production in the country on February 10. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Kids and adults named Alexa are being teased and bullied and Amazon won't help

"I felt like it slammed me in the face," the parent of a child named Alexa tells Business Insider | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

What we know about the app that threw the Iowa caucuses into chaos

The Iowa caucuses were thrown into chaos Monday, with reporting delayed over "inconsistencies" in voter data reported through a new mobile app. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Twitter gave a university complete access to a student's parody account

A student at SUNY Geneseo had his parody Twitter account mocking the college given to the school, raising concerns of censorship and improper access. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Medical surveillance allowed China to discover novel coronavirus

An online database allows doctors to upload information on infectious diseases in real time, which is how they detected this coronavirus so quickly. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

YouTuber got Katie Hopkins to pick up a fake award that spelled out the 'C-word'

Hopkins, who is known for being inflammatory and a lover of "free speech," has just had her Twitter account suspended for hate speech. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Facebook's Jay Parikh, veteran datacenter exec, is the latest insider to leave

Jay Parikh, who helped Facebook scale the technology that powers its global network and was part of Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle, is resigning. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Amazon engineer says Ring should be shut down immediately over privacy concerns

"The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck," the Amazon employee said of Ring. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

SpaceX is launching 'dark satellites'. Astronomers are skeptical

Elon Musk has promised SpaceX satellites won't interfere with scientific discoveries — but scientists aren't so sure. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Navy SEAL Jonny Kim talks about his NASA astronaut training

Kim said it was a mixture of "soft" and "hard" skills that enabled him to become one of the 13 candidates to graduate from NASA's latest program. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Stationery chain Papyrus is filing for bankruptcy and closing all of its stores

The majority of the company's 254 stores across the US and Canada are set to close within the next four to six weeks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

China spent first days of Wuhan outbreak arresting people who posted about it

As the Wuhan coronavirus spread this month, Chinese authorities arrested people spreading "rumors" about the virus online and threatened journalists. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

"Actually, no, I take that back," Gaetz told Politico, adding that an eighth-grader would know how to use PowerPoint and iPads. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Wuhan, China – Entire city quarantined due to coronavirus outbreak

Since December, there have been 544 cases of the Wuhan coronavirus and 17 deaths. Local authorities just issued quarantine orders in Wuhan, China. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

'The Witcher', 'Minecraft' and 'Kerbal Space Program' Games for Teslas

Elon Musk has expressed great enthusiasm for Netflix's "The Witcher" series, admitting to having the series' viral song stuck in his head. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Facebook's top executive had an awkward face-off with Amazon's CTO user data

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels asked Facebook exec Nick Clegg how Facebook plans to make clear to its users that it sells their data — but Clegg said the firm doesn't sell data. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

This is what the average Walmart shopper looks like

There are over 5,700 Walmart stores in the US, attracting millions of shoppers each year. Here's what its average shopper looks like. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Big Tech Bullies Smaller Firms

These companies testified in Congress against big tech's alleged anticompetitive tactics: 'Help us Congress, you're our only hope' | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Musk to send 1M people to Mars by 2050; creating 'a lot of jobs' on Mars

Musk said he would send 1,000 Starships full of people into Earth orbit, then rocket them all to Mars during an opportune 30-day window. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Test Flight: Airbus gets one step closer to fully self-flying aircraft

An Airbus test aircraft successfully took off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in southern France autonomously without any pilot input. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Navy says release of files into UFO sightings would 'damage' security

The Navy previously confirmed it was treating objects that baffled pilots in Department of Defense videos as UFOs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Front-end engineer is the best tech job in America according to Glassdoor

Glassdoor's list of the 50 best jobs in the US includes many tech positions. Here's a look at the ones that made the cut. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Snapchat was overtaken by Pinterest in US users last year

Snap's popularity with younger users helped it make a comeback in 2019, but an eMarketer report said that Pinterest's wide appeal is paying off. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

AG Barr claims Apple provided no substantive assistance

Attorney General William Barr said Apple won't help the FBI unlock two iPhones used in a deadly shooting at a Navy base in Florida last month. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Why so many millennials making 6-figure salaries still feel broke

Henrys — millennials who earn six figures but still feel broke — can blame their lavish lifestyle and economic consequences for not building wealth. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

US warned Iraq that its access to billions is in jeopardy if expels troops

The warning to Iraq is the latest in the fallout from the US missile strike on Iraqi soil last week that killed a top Iranian general. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

J.D. Vance Launches $125M Fund in America's Heartland with Thiel and Andreessen

The new fund will cut $5 million to $10 million checks to tech and science-focused startups in cities like Salt Lake City and Atlanta. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Boeing's CEO got a $62m payout but 2800 in the 737Max supply chain were laid off

Boeing spelled out its large pay package for Dennis Muilenburg on Friday. Meanwhile, Kansas-based supplier Spirit AeroSystems made huge redundancies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Google Ventures’ Bill Maris Blasts Outgoing Chief Legal Officer David Drummond

Google Ventures founder Bill Maris said he left because he could no longer work with Alphabet chief legal officer David Drummond. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

San Diego Police collected 65,000 face scans –- but no connection to arrests

The program has now been shuttered because of a new California law banning the use of facial recognition by government agencies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

An uncritical Teen Vogue story about Facebook caused bewilderment

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@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

TikTok security flaws left personal data, videos vulnerable to hackers – Busine

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@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Airbnb uses software that determines 'narcissism or psychopathy'

Airbnb has faced an uphill battle to screen people using its app amid reports of guests' rowdy parties and long-term scams run by hosts. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Segway introduces an egg-shaped transportation pod

The Segway-Ninebot S-Pod can reach a top speed of 24 mph and will be introduced next week at CES 2020, the year's biggest consumer-tech expo. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Images from space reveal the shocking extent of Australia bushfire crisis

Australia's fires have lasted for months, burned millions of acres, and belched out a smoke plume that could cover half of Europe. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Sam Altman and Andrew Yang Talk UBI

The presidential candidate Andrew Yang held a fundraiser attended by tech workers at the Bay Area house of the tech investor Sam Altman, a supporter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago

Elon Musk Shares Awe-Inspiring Animation of What SpaceX Is About to Achieve Next

In anticipation of SpaceX's critical test-launch of the Crew Dragon spaceship, Musk tweeted a simulation of what it'd be like to ride the vehicle. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 4 years ago