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Mark Cuban is (bleeping) mad about healthcare. Here’s what he wants to do about it
LAS VEGAS—It’s not typical to hear several F-bombs dropped within the first five minutes of a keynote discussion at a healthcare conference. Then again, Mark Cuban typically isn’t one of the speakers. Serial investor, TV personality and Dallas Mavericks’ owner Cuban wants to use his own muscle to help burn many of the core elements of the …
Smart home technology can change the way you operate — here’s how to get started
This article has been sponsored by RACV’s Smart Home Starter Kit. Business Insider was sent product from RACV to trial. » Unless you’ve got a pet that enjoys roaming your house, venturing in and out of doors as they please, any unknown moving presence in your home is probably unwelcome. Sure, you know that your …
I just took the world’s first 20-hour flight. Here’s what it did to me and why I would take it again
I’ve just endured the world’s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometre (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a half hours, and was almost as demanding as that sounds. The record-breaking Qantas Airways Ltd. flight touched down early Sunday morning in Australia. The Boeing Co. Dreamliner delivered its few dozen …
Here’s what could happen now
Despite being billed as “Super Saturday,” a special parliamentary session in the House of Commons offered little detail on when, or even if, Britain will finally exit the European Union. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians who voted to postpone the “meaningful vote” on his new divorce deal …
Fort Worth shooting: Officers weren’t asked to do welfare check. Here’s how it changed things
But the officer who shot her in her own home was sent on a call that police often handle as a potential burglary. “The information came from the neighbor to the call-takers and while it was relayed to the dispatch, it was determined to be an open structure call,” Fort Worth interim Police Chief Ed …
Google’s Pixel 4 launches next week; here’s what we expect – TechCrunch
Here in New York, the air is crisp and the leaves have begun to turn crimson and brown. That can only mean one thing: hardware season is upon us. Backdropped by cloudy, gray Manhattan skies, Google is set to take to the stage on Tuesday, October 15, to show off its just-in-time-for-the-holidays hardware line. As …
I tried to hack my insomnia with technology. Here’s what worked.
I stopped sleeping when I was 18. I’d just arrived at college, having moved from a tiny village to a big city for the first time in my life. London was loud and busy. I was staying in a dorm with a load of people I didn’t know. There was a hospital nearby with sirens …
Water pollution is killing millions of Indians. Here’s how technology and reliable data can change that
Humans have wrestled with water quality for thousands of years, as far back as the 4th and 5th centuries BC when Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, linked impure water to disease and invented one of the earliest water filters. Today, the challenge is sizeable, creating existential threats to biodiversity and multiple human communities, as …
Here’s a map of the Forever 21 stores set to close
Forever 21 on Tuesday released a list of the nearly 180 locations it could potentially close as part of its bankruptcy proceedings. When the apparel retailer filed for bankruptcy on Sunday evening, it said it had 549 stores in the U.S. and 251 locations internationally. The planned closures represent about a third of Forever 21’s …
The Technology 202: Here’s what Edward Snowden thinks about Trump’s whistleblower
Copies of the book “Permanent Record,” by Edward Snowden, are seen on the shelf at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. (CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/REX) Ctrl + N President Trump’s attacks on the whistleblower at the center of his impeachment inquiry aren’t a surprise to Edward Snowden. The individual whose revelations sparked a global debate about surveillance has …
