Feds Hit GM With $28,000 Fine For Not Answering Recall Questions
The government is fining General Motors with a $28,000 civil penalty for failing to respond fully to a request for information related to its recall of more than 2.5 million vehicles.In a letter to...
View ArticleThe State Of The Global Economy In Two Giant Slides
Shares of aluminum giant Alcoa are rallying in after-hours trading thanks to a better-than-expected earnings announcement.Aluminum is one of the most important industrial metals in the world, which...
View ArticleThis One Intersection Explains Why Housing Is So Expensive In San Francisco
San Francisco is a great place to live, if you can afford it.The only problem is, many can't. Median rent in the city is more than $1,463 per month. That's higher than every other major city in the...
View ArticleWe Beat The Crap Out Of A 'ShatterProof' iPhone With Hammers, Drills, And...
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View ArticleA New Study Says Obamacare May Be Working — But Not In The Way Anyone Expected
A new, highly anticipated study on the effects of the Affordable Care Act suggests the number of Americans without insurance has plummeted since September, lending more evidence to the notion Obamacare...
View ArticleVANGUARD: Cutting Costs Is Crucial To Investment Success
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Minimizing Costs Is Crucial To Investment Success (Vanguard)Advisers frequently...
View ArticleHaunting Visions Of World War I Live On In These Overlay Photos
World War I started 100 years ago this year. Thought of as the "war to end all wars," it left Europe in shambles as over 9 million people died and large parts of cities throughout the continent were...
View ArticleMIT Is Destroying The Cost Of Robotics By Building Robots Out Of Paper
MIT's Ankur Mehta is lead researcher on a project that quite literally enables people to print robots on a standard piece of paper at home.It might sound crazy, but there's a lot of complicated math to...
View ArticleMarine Shoots, Kills Fellow Guard At Camp Lejeune Base
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities at Camp Lejeune (luh-JERN') in North Carolina say a Marine standing guard at the main gate has shot and killed another guard.A statement from the base said the...
View ArticleTrouble Is Coming If Corporations Keep Squeezing Labor
Since the economic recovery began, corporate America went to great lengths to improve the efficiency of its operations.The American worker knows that "improved efficiency" is largely innuendo for...
View ArticleSomeone In San Francisco Wants To Separate Techies From 'Real San Franciscans'
The Mission District in San Francisco is home to many things: coffee shops, restaurants, Google bus stops, bike shops, and even a store that sells taxidermied mice. But it looks like someone wants to...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Kenyan Aunt Dies In Boston [Report]
BOSTON (Reuters) - President Obama's Kenyan aunt, who was granted asylum in the United States after having lived in the country illegally for several years, has died, an employee of the law firm that...
View ArticleThis Is How Google's New $1 Million Robot Sees The World
A team of roboticists at MIT is preparing Atlas, a 6-foot-2-inch-tall, 330-pound humanoid robot that can climb stairs, open doors, and even drive a car, for competition in the DARPA Robotics Challenge...
View ArticleStep Inside The Rosewood Sand Hill, The Swanky Hotel Where Tech Billionaires...
In the five years since it first opened to guests, the Rosewood Sand Hill has become the premiere social destination for Silicon Valley's elite.Conveniently located just across the street from a...
View ArticleThese Are Some Of The Top Emerging Business Applications For Beacons
Beacons are a low-cost piece of hardware — small enough to attach to a wall or countertop — that use battery-friendly, low-energy Bluetooth connections to transmit messages or prompts directly to a...
View ArticleAtlassian, Now Worth $3.3 Billion, Is Helping Employees Pocket $150 Million
While the tech world wrings its hands over how much money an IPO-bound tech company can lose in the name of sales and marketing, enterprise software company Atlassian has grown into a profitable...
View ArticleLearn The Secrets Of The Malaysian BBQ Chain That's Taking Over The World
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View Article'Game Of Thrones' Renewed For Two More Seasons
Hit HBO television show "Games of Thrones" was renewed for two more seasons Tuesday, two days after its latest series opened with a bang that crashed the broadcaster's online app.Sunday's fourth season...
View ArticleHere's How To Protect Yourself From The Massive Security Flaw That's Taken...
It's been a while since there was a computer security bug we all had to worry about. Unfortunately, it seems like we may all have been facing one for two years and not even realized it.Yesterday,...
View ArticleWhy The Scaremongering About Murderous Veterans Is Ridiculous
After a mass shooting at Fort Hood that left three dead, some have speculated that shooter Specialist Ivan Lopez was driven over the edge by post traumatic stress disorder following his deployment to...
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