Why you should never look at Pinterest while planning your wedding
Let's talk about the real vampire squid in American life: the wedding industry. The latest news comes courtesy of Racked, where Juno DeMelo gives us the badly needed takedown of the quaint,...
View ArticleHow the Apple Watch will change the way we travel
The Apple Watch is one of the hottest new devices in consumer tech, and it's affecting every industry — including the travel sector. Several companies have been jumping on board with Apple to create...
View ArticleHere's who the experts are picking to win the NBA Finals
While the Cleveland Cavaliers have LeBron James, the majority of experts are picking Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors to win the NBA Finals.Out of a pool of 61 experts from around the NBA...
View ArticleElizabeth Holmes still won't explain how her $9 billion technology actually...
On June 3, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a company that developed a revolutionary blood test that relies only on a drop of blood, appeared on Charlie Rose's show to talk about her...
View ArticleAPPLY NOW: Business Insider is hiring a producer/cinematographer for BI Films
Business Insider Films is seeking a smart, creative and experienced producer/cinematographer with a background in journalism to work on web series, shorts, and documentaries.This person must have...
View ArticleMajor toy companies have started making disabled dolls after a huge Facebook...
One by one, companies are agreeing to manufacture disabled dolls thanks to a small but incredibly vocal group of parent advocates who use a Facebook page to organize themselves.Toy Like Me's Facebook...
View ArticleMeet the street artist whose 'selfie portraits' line the walls of Snapchat HQ
As you walk through Snapchat's headquarters in Venice, California, you'll notice a series of bright portraits of famous innovators.Everyone from Andy Warhol and Nelson Mandela to Tina Fey and Daft Punk...
View ArticleApple needs to let developers design their own watch faces (AAPL)
Apple Watch owners will spend a majority of time looking at the watch face, which can be customized to display important information like the weather and upcoming events. But as fun as it is to...
View Article24 photos of China's insanely stressful college entrance exam process
This month, millions of Chinese high school students will take the National College Entrance Exam, also called gaokao or the big test. Last year, 9.4 million students sat for the test.Notoriously...
View ArticleBanning Uber in the Hamptons is a big fat safety hazard
Taxi-hailing app Uber has been banned in "The Hamptons" by East Hampton's Supervisor. The ban is in effect from East Hampton to Montauk.The ban is effective immediately.So is my outrage.Let me take you...
View ArticleApple is hanging huge decorations for its big show on Monday (AAPL)
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference kicks off on Monday in San Francisco.It's Apple's most important annual event, where the company usually introduces the next versions of some of its software...
View ArticleThe biggest rival to the Apple Watch clashed with Apple this week
Pebble, the startup that makes smartwatches for iPhone and Android devices, blamed Apple earlier this week for delaying its iPhone app, but the software is now live in the App Store.In a post on its...
View ArticleThe federal government was hacked and experts are both frightened and...
Yesterday afternoon the US federal agency the Office of Personnel Management admitted that its databases had been breached.What we know so far is that 4 million federal employee records were stolen in...
View ArticleMarvel comics will look vastly different in the coming months
The Marvel Universe is over. Time to get a look at what comes next. Marvel has just released two new teasers for the rebuilt, "All New, All-Different" Marvel Universe it will be launching in the wake...
View ArticleApple is making a big change to how the App Store works, and media companies...
Apple is planning to get rid of the longstanding 30% fee it forces app and media companies to pay when they sell a subscription through the App Store, according to The Financial Times.This is a big...
View ArticleBillionaire Peter Thiel is giving these 20 kids $100,000 to drop out of...
Today the Thiel Foundation announced its next class of 20 fast-tracked college dropouts hoping to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. These Thiel Fellows will each receive $100,000 and a wealth...
View ArticleWawrinka into final as storm holds up Djokovic-Murray
Paris (AFP) - Stan Wawrinka reached his first French Open final on Friday as a severe weather warning forced the rollercoaster semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray into a Saturday...
View ArticleThe woman who uploaded that video of a screaming baby being dunked in water...
Facebook is under fire after refusing to fully remove a video users were calling "disturbing" and "violent," but the woman who uploaded the video in the first place is desperate for the social network...
View ArticleThis ridiculous app is crushing the App Store charts, and even its creator...
Big name apps like Facebook and Snapchat typically sit at the top of the App Store’s free chart, but somehow a ridiculous app from an unknown developer dethroned them all.And the best part is that even...
View ArticleGoogle just solved the biggest problem with mobile photography
Since 2012, Google's cloud service Drive has offered 15 GB of free storage space — considerably more than the measly 5GB offered by Apple's iCloud, which is so often responsible for that infamous "Not...
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