Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello may take up Tesla CEO Elon Musk's offer to rebuild the island's electrical system using Tesla's massive batteries and solar panels. Musk said Thursday that Tesla could use its Powerpack batteries and solar panels to restore electricity to Puerto Rico. Tesla has already built similar systems on smaller islands like Ta'u in American Samoa , which can now run en
The supercar universe is packed these days with new models of every shape and size from around the world. But for many, there's no substitute for the raw power and emotion of a living, breathing Ferrari. Since the company launched its road car business in 1947 , its reputation has grown from that of a respected racing team to a creator of automotive legends. In fact, the company has managed to ma
Netflix raised its prices for US subscribers on Thursday and its stock took off, hitting an all time high of $194.39 per share by the end of the day. The price bump took the standard tier up to $10.99 from $9.99, and the premium tier to $13.99 from $11.99. The entry level $7.99 plan will not change. Subscribers are likely to grumble, but the stock increase indicates investors are confident the co
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The mystery of the "alien megastructure" star may finally be settled. In 2015, a rumor spread about the star KIC 8462852 . It was proposed that the star might harbor an alien race. The rumor stemmed from the star's unusually unstable brightness. One explanation for the behavior was an alien megastructure called a " Dyson swarm ." Now, that possibility has been ruled out. So, what's actually going
NEW YORK — Former Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton finally has time to do what almost all teenagers do these days: Binge-watch Netflix. Over a two-week period this summer, Lynton went deep down into the Netflix rabbit hole, he said at the New Yorker TechFest conference on Friday. "I could never understand what Netflix was really, until I got stuck in bed this summer for two weeks when I was
What is a Chatbot? You've likely talked to a robot already without even knowing it. And you might have even heard the term "chatbot" in the news. But what is a chatbot? How do chatbots work? Essentially, a chatbot is just a robot chat that imitates human conversations through voice commands, text chats, or both. It's a virtual conversation in which one party is an online talking robot. The artifi
Tesla CEO Elon Musk just announced that the company will delay its electric semi-truck reveal to focus on Model 3 production after missing its target for the much-anticipated car . Tesla was set to unveil the semi-trailer on Oct. 26 in Hawthorne, California. It will now reveal the battery-powered truck on Nov. 16, Musk said. Friday's announcement marks the second time Musk has delayed the reveal
Bitcoin is too expensive for one of the most powerful women in finance. Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, on Friday told CNBC's Sara Eisen that bitcoin is " too expensive for me at the moment" when asked if she would ever buy into the red-hot digital currency. Lagarde last month gave a soft defense of the cryptocurrency during a speech in London. She said cryptocurre
You wouldn't be crazy to worry about robots coming for American jobs. A 2017 report by investment advisory firm Cornerstone Capital Group found that about 6 million to 7.5 million retail jobs will be rendered obsolete by automation in the coming years, Business Insider's Hayley Peterson reported . Cashiers in particular have a 97% chance of being replaced by robots, Business Insider's Kate Taylor
On Friday morning, Marvel made a huge announcement on Twitter, and fans are not happy. Marvel Entertainment is joining forces with Northrop Grumman , an American global aerospace and defense technology company, and the world's fifth-largest defense contractor. We don't know much yet, but it looks like there will be a promotional comic featuring the Avengers and "Northrop Grumman Elite Nexus," or
Reports that Amazon is thinking about taking on the prescription drug industry have sent shares of CVS and Walgreens off a cliff. Both stocks are down around 4% on Friday after the news. Amazon is in the final stages of developing its plan to take on the prescription drug market, CNBC's Christina Farr reports . The e-commerce company is expected to make a decision about whether or not to enter th
This is a preview of a research report bundle from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here . Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not that will turn out to be a good thing. Voice assistants like
This week, Sam Smith collaborated with Timbaland on a new single, Canadian rapper Belly teamed with Pusha T on a track, and Kelela released her debut album. Here are the 5 best songs from the past week that you can stream right now: SEE ALSO: The 5 best songs you can stream from last week — Beyonce, Chance the Rapper, and more Sam Smith — "Pray" English singer Sam Smith turns a minimalist Timbala
"NOT MY AMERICA" trumpets a new trailer for upcoming first-person shooter "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus." The capitalized text, overlaid on video of goose-stepping Nazi soldiers marching through the streets of the game's fictional 1960s America, is the cornerstone of the upcoming game's ad campaign. Make America Nazi-Free Again. #NoMoreNazis #Wolf2 pic.twitter.com/52OESypw4P — Wolfenstein (@w
Never stop learning. If nothing else, will make it easier for you answer PayPal chief learning officer Derek Hann' s favorite interview question. As CLO, he focuses on implementing learning and development initiatives at the worldwide online payments system company. "I would ask this of any candidate — what did you learn this week?" Hann told Business Insider. "Even if it's only Tuesday. What's s
Most places in the solar system can't be reached without nuclear energy. NASA uses plutonium-238 forged during the Cold War to power its most ambitious missions. NASA is running low on the material, but the Department of Energy is making more. However, a government report suggests production challenges might impact NASA's future nuclear-powered missions. Classroom models lie. Our solar system isn
You might look at pictures of Samsung's insanely wide CHG90 monitor and think: "Who on earth needs a monitor this wide?" I'll bet a lot of people said the same thing when square 4:3 TVs and monitors were still the standard, back in the early 2000s, and "widescreen" 16:9 TVs and monitors hadn't yet become mainstream. Now, 16:9 widescreen is the standard monitor aspect ratio. But why stop at 16:9?
Lenovo is celebrating 25 years of the IBM ThinkPad laptops, which were first released in 1992, with the special-edition ThinkPad 25. The 25th anniversary edition of the ThinkPad is essentially a ThinkPad T470 that comes with the original IBM rubberized palm rests, the classic ThinkPad keyboard, a blue Enter key, the original colorful ThinkPad logo, and those status lights that used to blink at yo
New York Comic Con always gets great cosplayers — like this giant Hulkbuster and this massive Reinhardt (both made by c osplay designer Thomas DePetrillo ) — but this year's Comic Con has been particularly stunning. Cosplayers can spend months putting these together . Here are some of the best costumes from this year's New York Comic Con. Join the conversation about this story »
What author Richard Happer loves most about abandoned places is that they're everywhere you look — if you look hard enough. "There are so many of them, right on the doorstep of our everyday worlds," Happer told Tech Insider in 2016. "Hidden beneath our cities, unnoticed on high mountainsides. The more exploring you do, the more abandoned places that you find." Happer published a book, " Abandoned
On Thursday, it emerged that Netflix would be increasing the prices for its subscription services, and investors seemed to love it. The company's stock shot up 5.36% on Thursday after reports on the price increase. Investors were happy to see an estimated $623 million in new revenue for the company. But the new revenue will only come if Netflix doesn't lose a ton of subscribers because of the pri
Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive gave a rare public talk in New York on Friday. Ive was interviewed New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick. The session, "The Shape of Things to Come," was part of the New Yorker's TechFest conference . The British-born designer has kept a lower profile in recent years, but he's still a massively important person at Apple, and previously led the design team re
As far as humans travel, it's nothing compared to some animals. To put just how large this distance is into perspective, we've put together an animation showing these animals and their incredible distances. The following is a transcription. No matter how much traveling you do, these creatures have you beat. These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel
Uber has a message for it's London customers: We're not about to disappear. On Friday afternoon, the ride-hailing app emailed its users in the British capital to reassure them that it isn't going anywhere, regardless of what they've heard. In September, Transport for London (TfL), London's transport regulator, refused to renew Uber's license , saying it is not "fit and proper" to hold one. Uber i
Taylor Swift may be saving lives in Iowa. Displayed on various highway road signs around the state are modified lyrics to Swift's most recent song "Look What You Made Me Do." "Old Taylor can't come to the phone," the sign reads, "She's driving." Unveiled on October 2, the sign is the latest incarnation of Iowa Department of Transportation's "Message Monday" series , a weekly PSA issued on the 70
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Koenigsegg just smashed Bugatti's 0-249 mph record . The Koenigsegg Agera RS reached 249 mph in 36.44 seconds, which is a whole 5 seconds faster than the Bugatti Chiron's time. The Bugatti Chiron only set its record last month, which gives some context as to why Koenigsegg's time is so impressive. Produced by David Ibekwe Join the conversation about this story »
Amazon is extremely tight-lipped about its fledgling advertising business. The company hosted its first IAB Digital Upfront session today in London, lifting the lid (slightly) on how it might work with UK advertisers and ad agencies. Reporters were barred from the event. Even holding the event is a big shift for Amazon. Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo (now Oath) have all held public Upfront events f
A Chinese automaker backed by billionare Warren Buffett is getting ready to ramp up production of its electric buses. BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, opened its manufacturing facility in 2013 in northern Los Angeles. Since then, the facility has produced the company's battery-powered buses and, more recently, electric trucks. On Friday, BYD unveiled the factory's new 450,000 square-foot
The Wu-Tang Clan album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” may go down as one of the most puzzling chapters in the history of the legendary rap group. Only one copy exists and the person who paid a reported $2 million to buy it, former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, was convicted of securities fraud in August and recently placed the one-of-a-kind album on eBay . But the biggest question has
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here . It hasn't been smooth sailing for telecoms in recent years. Native voice and messaging services, which once accounted for the vast majority of telecoms' subscriber revenue, are struggling to compete with over-the-top (OTT) apps, like Facebook
Nearly a week after shooter Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 people and injured 527 others on the Las Vegas Strip, details have emerged about his gun-buying history. In the past year, Paddock purchased 33 guns , most of them rifles. He owned more than 40 firearms . It's legal to own that many guns in Nevada, which has resisted efforts to tighten firearm laws in recent years. I t's not only rela
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On Wednesday, Google announced its new "Clips" camera that looked an awful lot like GoPro's small action cameras. The announcement sent GoPro's shares down by about 13% in the two days following, but JPMorgan analyst Paul Coster says the new competition is actually a good thing. "The stock looks particularly compelling here owing to a 2-day sell-off spurred by the introduction of Google Clips, a
Despite winning three Academy Awards earlier this year, Amazon Studios went home empty handed at the Emmys last month, and the defeat stung more since it had passed on making two of the night’s biggest winners: “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) and “Big Little Lies” (HBO). But that’s just the start of what a Wall Street Journal story, which came out Friday, revealed about the steaming giant. The movie
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