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Jessica Pointing

Jessica Pointing knows how to interview.

The Harvard University junior received internship offers from companies including Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, McKinsey, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.

A computer science and physics major, she has received offer letters for roles in software engineering, data science, product management, consulting, investment banking, trading, and quantitative finance.

How does she do it? She credits being... Читать дальше...

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I was a broken record. For years, I said that it would be impossible for Chinese carmakers to crack into the US market, following the example of the Japanese and the South Koreans.

I had good justification for this extreme view: there's no room.

Simply put, there's was no market share to take in the US. And the old game of coming in with a great car in a segment that had been neglected or abjured — fuel-sipping Hondas in the 1970s, reliable family sedans in the 1980s... Читать дальше...

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Boulder, Colorado, is the top-ranked college town in the US, according to a new list from the American Institute for Economic Research.

The city of roughly 200,000 earned the top spot thanks to its accessibility — more than 20% of commuters take public transportation or cycle around Boulder Creek Corridor — and diverse and educated population. Boulder also has an active bar-and-restaurant scene, with plenty of coffee shops and microbreweries.

AIER compiled its list using nine economic... Читать дальше...

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Janet Napolitano, the former head of U.S. Homeland Security and current president of the University of California, has been hospitalized due to side effects caused by her cancer treatments, the university said Tuesday.

Napolitano, a Democrat who is also a former governor of Arizona, has been undergoing treatment for a recurrence of cancer since August, the university said.

The 59-year-old was admitted to an undisclosed hospital on Monday with side-effects from the treatment... Читать дальше...

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Frugal shoppers may think they can’t keep food cost low and enjoy the health benefits of organic food.

Whole Food Markets is known for its organic selections and carries some fairly expensive, higher-end products.

It’s no wonder why many choose to shop elsewhere, but they are missing out.

By following a few simple tricks, you can score big deals and save money while shopping at Whole Foods.

1. Bring your own bags

Before leaving home... Читать дальше...

Audi

Audi is setting its sights on China.

On Tuesday, the Volkswagen subsidiary said it has teamed up with its local manufacturing partner FAW to introduce a series of electrified vehicles as part of a 10-year plan to expand in China. As part of the plan, the company has committed to rolling out five new electrified vehicles in China by 2022. 

China is a natural target for an EV expansion as the government looks to grow the market as part of an effort to reduce air pollution. Читать дальше...

Myths about the human body perpetuate themselves in Hollywood fiction. Sometimes these myths develop a life of their own.  Yale University neurologist and the editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog, Dr. Steven Novella, reveals one of biggest myths that we often believe about the human brain.

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NEW YORK — Deutsche Bank will settle with US regulators for $7.2 billion over financial crisis-era residential mortgage-backed securities.

The $7.2 billion figure was announced in December by the bank, and confirmed on Tuesday by the Department of Justice.

The settlement comes after months of wrangling between the bank and regulators. The original settlement was reported to be around $14 billion, which sent Deutsche Bank's stock into a tail spin in September 2016. Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday declined to rule out the possibility of additional prisoners being transferred from the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before President Barack Obama leaves office on Friday.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he could not rule out such a move while speaking to reporters at a daily news briefing, one day after Oman announced that it had taken in 10 prisoners released from the facility.

(Reporting... Читать дальше...

Mr. Money Mustache

In 2005, Peter Adeney — better known as Mr. Money Mustache — retired at 30 years old.

Leading up to retirement, Adeney and his wife, Simi, both software engineers, stashed two-thirds of their combined $134,000 take-home pay in savings. After just 10 years in the workforce, the couple had accrued about $600,000 in investments and paid off a house worth $200,000, Adeney told Nick Paumgarten of The New Yorker, giving them a solid cushion to retire on.

It wasn’t an easy road to financial independence... Читать дальше...

TV Land

"Throwing Shade" stars Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi say they aren't giving up the edge fans of their podcast have become accustomed to just because they're moving to television.

"Stuff will get bleeps and maybe blurred, but they’ve let us go pretty much, nearly in every situation I think, as hard as we want to, which shocked us," Safi, a.k.a. "Homosensual," told Business Insider of the light censoring for their new show on TV Land.

Gibson, a.k.a. "Feminasty," interjected... Читать дальше...

The biggest video game company in the world, Nintendo, is on the verge of releasing a new video game console. It's called the Nintendo Switch, and it arrives on March 3 for $299. 

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Warning: spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story are ahead!

The events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story culminated in an epic battle on and around the planet Scarif. On the surface, Jyn Erso's troops and some X-Wings kept the Empire distracted while she and Cassian Andor seized the Death Star plans.

Out in space, Rebels ships were waging an assault on the Imperial forces around Scarif. Part of that attack included a Hammerhead corvette ramming into a broken-down... Читать дальше...

Netflix

This post includes spoilers for "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" is, as you might have guessed from the title, not a happy story.

It's about three children — Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire — whose parents die in a fire that burned down their home and live in a series of inadequate foster homes as they're chased around by a unibrowed man named Count Olaf, who wants to steal their family fortune.

In Daniel Handler's book series... Читать дальше...

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For centuries, the Catholic Church has elected a pope to don an intricate hat and lead the religion's 1.27 billion adherents across the globe. 

But not all of the church's 260-odd popes have been models of piety. Actually, a handful of popes are best remembered by their violent tempers, shocking sex scandals, and shady financial practices. 

Here's a chronological list of some of history's most outrageous papacies. 

Stephen VI dug up his predecessor's corpse and put it on trial. Читать дальше...

Amazon has filed a new patent designed to help autonomous vehicles identify the driving lanes best-suited for their individual needs.

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The INSIDER Summary:

• "The Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" stars are typically paid $100,000.
• The contestants make no money.
• The real money happens after the show when they make appearances.
• They can also make money from social media brand endorsements.

"The Bachelor" is one of America's favorite pastimes , but how much do the contestants get paid to date, cry on TV, and travel around the world?

Turns out, nothing. Unless you're the star. Читать дальше...

US Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Abe McNatt

The assessment and selection of special operators is arguably the most mythical training available in the United States military. Rumors fly around the barracks about how hard it is or what percentage will actually graduate.

There is always that guy whose uncle was a DeltaNinjaSeal in Desert Storm who told him that, “the final test is a two-way live fire where the only standard is … survival!” And of course, there is never a shortage of people who believe that. Читать дальше...

Netflix

Warning: Spoilers ahead for "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books and Netflix show.

There are three recurring letters that careful viewers will notice in Netflix's show "A Series of Unfortunate Events": V, F, and D.

The letters have their roots in the books by Daniel Handler, which readers of the series will have recognized immediately. It first comes up in a sentence spoken by Lemony Snicket, the show's narrator and Handler's authorial alter-ego, ten minutes into the first episode. Читать дальше...

The NBA season is approaching the halfway point and already Russell Westbrook has a season's worth of ridiculous highlights. 

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Netflix's new show "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is based on a book series by Lemony Snicket — a pseudonym for author Daniel Handler.
• Handler has a cameo role as a fish seller in the Netflix show.

Netflix's latest show, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," is a wry and stylized adaptation of a book series written by Daniel Handler. But Handler assumed a pseudonym when he penned "Unfortunate Events." He wrote under the name Lemony Snicket... Читать дальше...

Update: I added a screenshot from a separate video, also released by Samsung, showing a similar device.

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Another year, another price chop for Celine Dion's extravagant Jupiter Island property.

The price for the lavish house now stands at $38.5 million after a series of price chops over the last four years, according to The Wall Street Journal. It was originally asking $72.5 million in 2013.

The singer had previously lowered the price to $45.5 million after her husband, René Angélil, died last year.

Dion and her late husband... Читать дальше...

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Esteban Santiago, who was arrested on charges of killing five people and injuring six more in a shooting earlier this month at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, said he carried out the attack on behalf of the Islamic State, according to the FBI.

FBI special agent Michael Ferlazzo and other agents testified at Santiago's bond hearing on Tuesday, and Ferlazzo said Santiago had claimed to have spoken with other purported jihadis in chatrooms and websites inspired by the Islamic State... Читать дальше...