Former Snap executive Imran Khan is developing a new company that could, in some form, take on Amazon and Jet, according to a new report. Khan, who was Snap’s number-two executive until he left earlier this year, is working on an e-commerce company that would allow brands to sell their products on the service, Recode…
Enlarge / The sonification process involved assigning specific pitches and melodies to such characteristics in the data as brightness, color, and the elevation of the terrain. YouTube/NASANASA's Mars rover Opportunity fell silent earlier this year, but even if it never regains full function, it had one last gift to give. Scientists have transformed Opportunity's image…
Mr. Osby said that winds were expected to pick up on Sunday and last through Tuesday, further complicating firefighting efforts in the region, and that they currently had no timeline for lifting evacuation orders or opening Highway 101, one of the region’s major thruways. Scott StJohn, 42, an entrepreneur and fitness company owner, was evacuated…
Enlarge / A bike of roughly the same vintage as the author's. We tend to think of technology as something that moves electrons around. But I'm going to take a little diversion into technology that is used to move us around (and yes, our electrons as well, you pedants). The humble bicycle has been in…
PARADISE, Calif. (Reuters) - The charred remains of 14 more people have been found in and around a Northern California town overrun by flames from a massive wildfire, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least 23. The bodies were recovered in and around Paradise, a mountain community some 90 miles (145…
After the attorney Michael Avenatti said he was investigating a claim that the Fox News host Tucker Carlson "assaulted" a "gay Latino immigrant," Carlson responded in a statement to Business Insider that he did not assault the man and that the man called his 19-year-old daughter a "whore" and a "f---ing c---." The incident in…
But as Saudi Arabia has bungled its response to the killing — denying it for weeks, then calling it an accident, and later acknowledging evidence of premeditation — Mr. Erdogan’s posture has shifted. As criticism has mounted, he has evidently calculated that he can deal a serious enough blow to Prince Mohammed to permanently cripple…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance and death Turkey says it has shared recordings related to the murder of the journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi with the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and others.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeated his assertion that Saudi Arabia…
ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, Facebook followed Google’s lead and announced to employees that it would be ending its policy that required mandatory arbitration for employee sexual harassment claims. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which noted that there was also an update to "its interoffice dating policy to require any…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are warning about rising wages eating into profit margins, increasing investor worries that next year’s expected drop in profit growth may be sharper than feared. FILE PHOTO - A sign for the Wall Street subway station is seen in the financial district in New York City, U.S., August 23,…
