FEBRUARY 3, 2024
FILE - Carl Weathers arrives at a special screening for the season three premiere of "The Mandalorian" on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at The Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator”...
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Four people in Washington state have tested positive this month for a rare fungal infection that can be deadly.
It's the state's first known outbreak of the fungus, called Candida auris, according to Seattle and King County health officials, though one locally acquired case was detected there in July. No deaths have been reported.
The cluster comes as Candida...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Okta is laying off 7% of its workforce. - SOPA Images/ Getty
Okta is reducing its headcount by 7% on Thursday, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
The ID verification firm said it's "necessary" to fulfill its "commitment to profitable growth."
The job cuts continue the layoffs trend, which hit workers hard in January.
Okta is reducing its headcount...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York City on Jan. 11. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Most U.S. voters (51%) say that if former President Donald Trump is convicted of a “serious crime”...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
While the House Homeland Security Committee was (slowly) marking up articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the (slow) effort to build a case for impeaching President Biden continued apace.
Eric Schwerin, a former business associate of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, appeared Tuesday on Capitol Hill for sworn closed-door testimony before congressional investigators. The appearance...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. - Getty Images
Chris Williams was the VP of HR at Microsoft and is now an executive-level advisor and consultant.
He says highly paid executives don't take pay cuts because it wouldn't make a big enough difference.
Companies load up execs with stock because they don't cost the...
JANUARY 31, 2024
The asteroid is scheduled to make its closest approach at 2.41pm GMT on Friday - NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ASU/SWNS
An asteroid the size of a football pitch will zoom past Earth on Friday, coming close enough for Nasa to issue a warning.
Asteroid 2008 OS7 is classified as “potentially hazardous” and is expected to come within 1.7 million miles of Earth –...
JANUARY 31, 2024
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author and senior scientific advisor at Universa, says the U.S. economy is facing a "death spiral" because of its national debt problem. - Jeenah Moon—Bloomberg via Getty Images
It's been dubbed the "most predictable crisis" facing the U.S. economy, but an expert has warned it will take a "miracle" to save America from its national...
JANUARY 31, 2024
Persons-Mulicka's bill will likely become law given the legislature’s Republican supermajority and proven anti-choice track record.
The architects of Florida’s six-week abortion ban started the year by pushing for another, possibly more dangerous, anti-choice law.
State Sen. Erin Grall (R) and state Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka (R) introduced similar bills in the state legislature this month that would allow parents...
JANUARY 30, 2024
A schoolkid reverse engineered Apple's highly secure iMessage app.
Apple's in-house messaging application iMessage is used by more than a billion people across the world, and is automatically available on all Apple products like iPhone and iPad. However, a 16-year-old boy ended up reverse engineering the app, landing Apple in a pickle.
James Gill, a 16-year-old schoolkid, decided to...
