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Every night that I'm alone in my apartment, I grab my laptop and start scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed.

My intention is to spend five minutes catching up on people's life achievements and pretty vacation photos — and then suddenly, it's an hour later.

Afterwards, I feel kind of blech. Like I just wasted a chunk of precious non-working time that I could instead have used to call a friend, or take a walk, or clean my bedroom. But the next night, it's the same deal. Читать дальше...

REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

It's become predictable. Every time it looks like Tesla is up against failure — as it could be now with its ambitious production targets for its Model 3 mass-market car — calls are renewed for Apple to use some of its massive hoard of cash to buy the $30 billion electric-car maker.

On paper it looks synergistically appealing. Tesla would be freed from its state of perpetual anxiety about its future, and Apple would make a bold move into transportation, now viewed... Читать дальше...

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President Barack Obama chided Rutgers University students for scuttling Condoleezza Rice's planned 2014 commencement address. 

Rutgers students successfully pressured Rice to back out of her commencement address, citing the former secretary of state's involvement in the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq.

Speaking at the university's commencement Sunday, Obama said pressuring Rice to drop the speech was "misguided."

"I don't... Читать дальше...

REUTERS/Janine Costa

Organized crime networks in Latin America have long made their money off of drugs.

But over the past decade, as gold prices have soared, cartels have increasingly turned to illegally mining the metal to earn cash.

In Peru and Colombia, they're now making more money exporting illegal gold than cocaine. 

Eighty percent of the gold mined in Colombia and up to 90 percent of the gold mined in Venezuela is produced illegally.

That's according to... Читать дальше...

RadPad

Graduating from college and entering the job market is an exciting time – you’ll be given opportunities that you hadn’t had previously, like moving to a new city and figuring out how many times you can eat cereal for dinner in one month.

So what do the 1.85 million students projected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2016 have waiting for them when they walk across that stage and into post-grad life?

We crunched the numbers to see what the median monthly rent for a 1-bedroom... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

(Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, is planning to sue German automaker Volkswagen AG over the impact of its emissions scandal, the Financial Times reported.

The $850 billion oil fund is expected in the coming weeks to join the class-action lawsuits filed against Volkswagen in German courts in the coming weeks, the newspaper reported.

"We have been advised by our lawyers that the company's conduct gives rise to legal claims under German law. Читать дальше...

Mike Vigil via GlobalPost

Anti-drug agents are usually extremely cautious about spilling the beans on their secret world, which lies somewhere between espionage, police work and battlefield.

But here’s a rare inside look, offered by a veteran of the drug war. Mike Vigil, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s former chief of international operations, served more than three decades in the agency, including 18 years abroad, and more time than any other DEA agent in Mexico.

Now... Читать дальше...

Chris Cope

When I was 21 years old, I decided I no longer cared about political science and dropped-out of classes at my dreary college in Northern Minnesota on the promise of working in a tourist trap at Lake Tahoe.

I packed a duffle bag, told my roommate he could keep, sell or trash everything else, and spent several days making my way to the Silver State. My pickup truck had no air conditioner or radio; everything was barebones.

I often look back on that trip, and my decision to make it... Читать дальше...

USA

Yes, there isn't a moment to breathe between the ending of the spring television season and the beginning of the summer one. Welcome to year-round programming!

Summer used to be a time when fans could catch up on shows they missed via reruns, but we have streaming-TV services for that.

It also used to be a time when networks aired shows that wouldn't have a chance during the proper fall/spring schedules, but now summer shows like USA's "Mr. Robot" are getting Emmys.

Universal Pictures

Kristen Stewart is setting the record straight on her absence from the prequel for "Snow White and the Huntsman."

Although the first movie made $400 million internationally, Stewart didn't appear in the prequel "The Huntsman: Winter's Warrior." 

There were some reports that Stewart's personal relationship with "Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders and the accompanying tabloid coverage caused her to be fired from the prequel. But Stewart maintains that isn't true. Читать дальше...

Reuters

It turns out the US consumer is still doing fine.

This was thrown into doubt last week as the peak season for big-box retail earnings started on a sour note. Macy's lowered its earnings guidance for the year with some bleak commentary, while JC Penney whiffed on sales and slashed full-year projections. Their shares fell with Gap, Nordstrom, and others that missed expectations.

But the Census Bureau's retail sales data Friday brought some relief when it showed a 1.3% jump in April — the most in a year. Читать дальше...

BI Intelligence

Native ads — or ads that take on the look and feel of the content surrounding them — are taking over digital advertising. 

By 2021, native display ad revenue in the US, which includes native in-feed ads on publisher properties and social platforms, will make up 74% of total US display ad revenue, up from a 56% share in 2016, according to new BI Intelligence estimates based off historical data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC, as well as IHS.

Bloomberg

When interviewing for a job, it's instinctual to want to say what you think the interviewer wants to hear.

But if you think this is the best strategy for a successful interview, you'd be sorely mistaken, Edith Cooper, executive vice president and global head of Human Capital Management at Goldman Sachs, tells Business Insider.

If a candidate says, for example, that they have a passion for something because they think it will impress the interviewer, they should... Читать дальше...

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Warning: spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones."

HBO's "Game of Thrones" gave fans a lot to talk about during Sunday's episode, titled "Oathbreaker."

All eyes were on Jon Snow (Kit Harington) as this episode followed the moment he woke from death on the previous episode. Though clearly reeling from the experience, Jon Snow had some unfinished business to attend to.

But there were other big returns on "Oathbreaker" that generated a lot of talk. Читать дальше...

Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider

The Samsung Galaxy S7 is the best smartphone I've ever used.

Not only is it powerful with its VR capabilities and the best smartphone camera ever made, but it's also a gorgeous device. That slender, low-bezel frame. That metallic finish. That ultra-high-contrast, milky-smooth screen. Plus, you can leave it in a jug of water for the length of a phone demo with no ill effects. And it runs Android — a contentious operating system (that's a whole other post,) but the one I prefer. Читать дальше...

Tuesday, President Obama announced his decision to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the site where the US dropped an atomic bomb in August 1945.

20th Century Fox

The summer movie season came out of the gate strong with the huge opening weekend for "Captain America: Civil War," the 5th biggest of all time.

Now the question is: Will any title catch up to it, or will the Avengers leave everyone else in the dust?

As more titles being to screen for press, we're getting a better sense of the movies that will dominate the summer.

In our latest ranking, we've compiled critical and fan reaction, plus available box office and projections... Читать дальше...

Ned Kahn taps into the environment and uses the elements to create kinetic art. 

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Humans are capable of sensing a wide variety of smells, from the first flowers that bloom in spring to the oaky notes of whiskey.

Scientists still don't understand every aspect about how our sense of smell works — but now, a team of researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery about our noses and brains.

Millions of olfactory receptor neurons sit at the back of your nose and relay smells to your brain.

Each smell we inhale sends tons of odor molecules to the backs of our noses... Читать дальше...

YouTube

Led Zeppelin — and specifically guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant — is defending itself against charges that it pinched the opening from its 1971 epic "Stairway to Heaven" from "Taurus" by the band Spirit.

Page and Plant are currently being sued by the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, and if you want the details, read Business Insider's James Cook's post on the legal ins and outs of the case, which is going to trial in Los Angeles — ironically, home to some... Читать дальше...

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President Barack Obama took aim at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sunday, criticizing Donald Trump's plans to build physical and metaphorical walls between the US and other nations. 

Obama never said Trump's name. But during his commencement speech at Rutgers University, the president blasted Trump's isolationist economic and foreign-policy messages, including his proposals to bar Muslims from entering the US and to build a wall along the southern border. Читать дальше...

Mike Blake/Reuters

Theranos is at a major turning point. What it does next could be critical to its survival.

The company, which rose to fame with the promise of a new test that uses only a finger-prick's worth of blood, is struggling to restore faith in its leadership and technology.

On Wednesday, it announced a major management shakeup, and, more critically, it has promised to address the biggest cause of skepticism in the scientific community: that it hasn't ever published any studies on the technology. Читать дальше...

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An aging global population has numerous implications for what it means to retire. People are living longer, having fewer children, remaining in the workforce, transitioning careers later in life, etc. But there are some other key points I’d like to highlight based on research and conversations we’ve had with global experts:

1. Retirement today is about much more than money

That’s always been sort of true, but it’s even much truer now. Читать дальше...

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We take a look at 20 successful entrepreneurs — and where they worked as lowly interns (sometimes unpaid) before making it big. 

1. Katia Beauchamp

The cofounder of cosmetics subscription service BirchBox interned at NBC Universal as a summer associate for digital distribution in 2010 — the same year she started her company while an MBA student at Harvard Business School.  

2. Kayvon Beykpour

The CEO and co-founder of Periscope... Читать дальше...

Citizen bridge via CityLab.

New York hasn’t built a bridge in more than half a century. The next one could could look unlike anything the city has seen before.

“Citizen Bridge”—a proposal to build a floating pedestrian bridge between Governors Island and Red Hook in Brooklyn—is still a ways off from becoming a reality.

But it is about to inch that much closer. A Kickstarter campaign to build a seventh prototype is just a few thousand dollars shy of its $25,000 goal, with about a week left to go. Читать дальше...