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☆ A United Boeing 787 with 176 people on board had to divert after the pilot's screens went blank over remote northern Canada
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Pete Syme | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A United Airlines flight diverted to Chicago after cockpit screens went blank. AdvertisementA United Airlines plane diverted and made an unplanned landing after cockpit screens went blank while it was flying over Canada's far north. The incident occurred on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operating Flight 231 from Los Angeles to London on September 26. AdvertisementIn a statement shared with Business Insider, a United Airlines spokesperson confirmed that the plane diverted "to address a potential technology issue." Last week, United Airlines was cleared by the Federal Aviation Administration after a six-month safety review.

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☆ 3 questions about Tesla's robotaxi that Elon Musk needs to answer
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThe stakes are high heading into Tesla's Robotaxi Day on Thursday night in California. AdvertisementAs is typical, Musk's promise that the robotaxi business was taking shape offset a major earnings miss and helped juice Tesla's languishing stock price. Spak wrote. With all this in mind, Jonas isn't sure Musk can live up to investors' high expectations. Advertisement"Tesla's future valuation is highly dependent on its ability to develop, manufacture, and commercialize autonomous technologies," Jonas wrote.

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☆ I flew a Boeing 737 Max simulator and it gave me a new respect for just how hard being a pilot really is
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I tried out two flight simulators, including one for a Boeing 737 Max. AdvertisementI write about planes nearly every day at Business Insider, but trying out a Boeing 737 Max flight simulator gave me new insights into just how much skill and dedication is required to be a pilot. I was helped along the way by Matthew Yemm, a Skyborne flight instructor who spent a decade in the Royal Navy. Flying the 737 MaxThe more imposing simulator was that of a Boeing 737 Max. The entrance to the Boeing 737 Max simulator.

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☆ Ina Garten gave up a job at the White House to become an entrepreneur — without business experience. Here's what the risky move taught her.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Ina Garten gave up her White House job to buy a specialty food store called Barefoot Contessa. AdvertisementWhen Ina Garten gave up her job at the White House to buy a specialty food store in New York called Barefoot Contessa, she had never run a business. "I was too tired to go home, so I had cleared a space, wrapped myself in a sweater, and went to 'bed,'" Garten wrote. Related stories"I love when changing your behavior — in this case, how I dressed — changes everything without your saying a word," Garten wrote. Advertisement"Anna was important to me, so I didn't have a moment's hesitation in supporting her," Garten wrote.

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☆ Tesla could have a tough time living up to the hype around its robotaxi event
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Pia Singh | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The recent hype lifted Tesla's stock into positive territory for the year, and it's now up nearly 5% in 2024. A high-risk, high-reward venture Analysts polled by LSEG have a consensus price target of $210.71 on Tesla shares, implying a decline of 19% from Friday's close. "We believe widescale Tesla robotaxi deployment is unlikely in the coming years," Spak added. Still, the bull case around Tesla's robotaxi ambitions highlights the company's potential to provide cost-effective technology. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas is a Tesla bull with an overweight rating and a $310 price target — reflecting 19% upside.

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☆ 3 questions Elon Musk will need to answer at Tesla's highly anticipated robotaxi event
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The event, originally scheduled for August, is where CEO Elon Musk has promised to release a final design and more detailed plans for Tesla's Uber-like self-driving car service. AdvertisementIn typical form, Musk's promise that the robotaxi business was taking shape offset a major earnings miss and juiced Tesla's languishing stock price. Spak wrote. In the same note, Spak raises questions about Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD)'s rate of improvement compared to competitors like Waymo. Advertisement"Tesla's future valuation is highly dependent on its ability to develop, manufacture, and commercialize autonomous technologies," Jonas wrote.

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☆ How Elon Musk hopes his new supercomputers will boost his businesses
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Magdalena Petrova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Dojo will process and train AI models using the large amounts of video and data captured by Tesla cars. Subscriptions to Tesla's FSD features cost $99 a month and include automatic lane changes, automatic parking and automatic stopping for traffic lights and stop signs. Tesla hopes Dojo, which Musk says has been running tasks for Tesla since 2023, will change that. Musk has said that Tesla plans to spend $10 billion this year on AI. To learn more about Elon Musk's supercomputer plans, watch the video.

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☆ Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire very soon
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk’s sprawling empire — spanning everything from electric vehicles and social media to space rockets and miniature brain implants — may soon make him the world’s first trillionaire. Now, Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire, a milestone that Informa Connect Academy says he’s on track to hit by 2027. The EV maker founded by Musk has become the world’s most valuable auto company, with a price tag of about $710billion. Musk owns another 303 million stock options linked to his epic and controversial compensation package, which was struck down by a judge but then revived and approved by shareholders. As Bloomberg notes, Musk owns about 42% of SpaceX, a private company valued in June at a whopping $210 billion.

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☆ 'Living death' was my dad's nickname for office work. Now I'm in my 40s — and I can see why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Ariel Sophia Bardi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. I'd spent carefree years bouncing around Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Mexico, India and Armenia. Advertisement"Living death," that's how my philosopher-slash-guitarist father had nicknamed office work. Author's view from hotel overlooking the Bay of Algiers Ariel Sophia BardiA freelance job helped me feel free againI needed to start living again. I make no comparison between their incredible courage and my own infinitely milder risks, which soon included drifting back to freelance work.

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☆ Waymo and Tesla have opposite problems as they compete for driverless tech dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewTwo major players — Tesla and Waymo — are battling for dominance in the driverless tech sector. "I think that Tesla has a software problem, and I think Waymo has a hardware problem, is the way I put it — and I think software problems are much easier." AdvertisementHe viewed Tesla as a "pioneer" in using machine learning for its autonomous driving software. But he also argued that Tesla's autonomous hardware hasn't solved the driverless equation. Waymo, on the other hand, produces an autonomous driving system capable of eliminating a human driver.

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☆ Tesla Semi fire in California took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The Tesla truck, driven by an employee, was headed to the company's battery factory in Sparks, Nevada, from a warehouse in Livermore, California, the report said. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first showed off the Semi truck design at an event in November 2017, promising it would come to market in 2020. "Preparation of Semi factory continues and is on track to begin production by end of 2025," Tesla said in its second-quarter earnings report in July. The NTSB report confirmed that Tesla's driver-assistance systems, which are marketed as Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in the U.S., were not "operational" at the time of the Semi collision and fire.

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☆ I work on Tesla's Autopilot team. I watch hours of customers' driving videos every day and am monitored constantly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Business Insider has verified their identity and employment and corroborated their claims during our reporting on Tesla's Autopilot facilities. I didn't have any automotive or manufacturing experience before I began working on the Autopilot project. A Tesla has 9 different cameras that collect data the Autopilot team goes through in order to teach the Full Self-Driving and Autopilot software how to drive like a human. I spend hours everyday going over videos that were taken from customer cars and Tesla's in-house test drivers. AdvertisementWithin the program there are many different little projects that are all combined to create the greater Full Self-Driving and Autopilot experience.

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☆ Burnout Cure for Girlbosses: Female Executives Vs. Hustle Culture
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

But for few has its pursuit been more complicated than for the elite career women Byars strives to help. AdvertisementWhen she finally felt ready to go back to corporate life, she looked for a more sustainable way to pursue professional success. The issue with high-achieving women, Byars says, is they focus on meeting only two of those needs — security (money) and esteem — while neglecting the rest. When the clients cry, it's mostly related to the need Byars says is the trickiest to meet: esteem. But if you're a woman with four kids and a senior-level corporate job, is there really any amount of mindset shifting you can do to avoid burnout?

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☆ Tesla says it will launch Full Self Driving product in Europe and China early next year
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla said it will launch its "Full Self Driving" driver assistance product in Europe and China early next year. Tesla is yet to receive regulatory permission to launch its FSD product in Europe and China, but Musk in July said that he expects to get this clearance by the end of 2024. So-called Full Self Driving, or FSD, has been a key pillar of Musk's strategy to make Tesla a more AI-centric company and push toward self-driving technology. Despite the label on its product, FSD is not actually capable of making its vehicles fully autonomous. FSD is an upgrade to Tesla's Autopilot driver assistant, which is already available in Europe and China.

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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JetBlue, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Tesla, G-III Apparel and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

G-III Apparel Group — Shares surged 22% after the apparel maker posted second-quarter results that topped estimates. Adjusted earnings of 52 cents per share beat the 27 cents a share that analysts expected, according to FactSet. Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Shares dropped 6% after Hewlett Packard Enterprise saw gross margins decline from a year ago. In its fiscal first quarter, C3.ai saw $73.5 million in revenue, lower than the $79.2 million forecast by analysts polled by FactSet. In its fiscal third quarter, Toro posted adjusted earnings of $1.18 per share on revenue of $1.16 billion.

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☆ Jessica Fern's 'Polysecure' promised a world beyond monogamy. She didn't say it would be easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

The psychotherapist's 2020 book, "Polysecure," has become the poly bible for an increasingly queer and fluid generation. As consensual nonmonogamy went mainstream, searches for Fern's "Polysecure" spiked. "I've heard authors joke they get a cup of coffee from their book," Fern said. When Jessica Fern and Dave Cooley opened up their relationship, Cooley was surprised at the "searing anguish" he felt about his wife seeing other men. Fern, Cooley, and Fern's partner bought the property together and settled in, planning to live there long term.

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☆ Blitzy, a Boston startup automating coding, just raised $4.4 million using this 10-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Startup Blitzy has raised $4.4 million to build its team in Boston. A former Nvidia engineer cofounded Blitzy to automate custom software development. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBlitzy, a new startup using AI copilots to automate coding, has raised $4.4 million.

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☆ Tesla Cybertruck is in a category of its own for better or worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Tesla Cybertruck in front of a graffiti mural on Aug. 28, 2024 in Detroit. Those were all words used to describe the Tesla Cybertruck during a 24-hour rental of the vehicle in metropolitan Detroit. Fronts of the Ford F-150 Lightning, Tesla Cybertruck and GMC Sierra Denali EVs (left to right). The Tesla Cybertruck is unveiled at Tesla's design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. A Tesla Cybertruck in front of a graffiti mural on Aug. 28, 2024 in Detroit.

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☆ Families of Brazilian plane crash victims gather in Sao Paulo as experts work to identify the dead
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

SAO PAULO — Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil are gathering Sunday at a morgue and hotels in Sao Paulo as forensics experts work to identify the remains of the 62 people killed in the accident. Brazilian media said another four people were identified at the Sao Paulo morgue, which did not confirm the information. Metsul, one of Brazil’s most respected meteorological companies, said Friday there were reports of severe icing in Sao Paulo state around the time of the crash. Sao Paulo state government said 26 families have already attended the morgue for identification efforts, with more expected on Sunday. The ATR 72, which is built by a joint venture of Airbus in France and Italy’s Leonardo SpA.

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I didn't, and managing my money manually has been a major learning experience. For the last six years, focusing on my personal finances has been one of my main goals. However, some of the advice I received wasn't the right advice to follow, and I'm glad I didn't — especially the advice that came from a friend of mine who was on a mission to become a millionaire by age 40. Consider a financial advisor. Finding a financial advisor doesn't have to be hard.

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☆ Tech's Divorced Dad Energy: Silicon Valley Is Letting Down Customers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Big Tech companies became less known for one particular product. Instead, Big Tech became obsessed with a series of half-baked boondoggles that seemed revolutionary, yet in practice, were either not reliable enough to be trusted or simply not that useful. Big Tech has become sullen, entitled, and lazy, believing that nobody else could snatch away its precious customers. Related storiesEven when tech companies aren't trying to shove AI down our throats, they fall into a similar trap. AdvertisementWhen the public eventually walks out, I don't believe Big Tech is even capable of making the adjustments necessary to win them back.

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☆ Tesla's biggest competitor just announced a collab with Uber
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewTesla's biggest competitor, BYD, just launched a big partnership with Uber. AdvertisementThe partnership also ups BYD's international visibility, as Uber passengers ride in cars they might not have otherwise tried out. AdvertisementThe Uber partnership may also mitigate a European Union tariff on Chinese EV makers. In late June, Volkswagen said it would invest up to $5 billion in US EV maker Rivian, which would develop software for both companies' cars.

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☆ Tesla car that killed Seattle motorcyclist was in ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Reuters —A Tesla Model S car was in “Full Self-Driving” mode when it hit and killed a 28-year-old motorcyclist in the Seattle area in April, police said, making it at least the second fatal accident involving the technology on which Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pinning his hopes. Tesla says its “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” software requires active driver supervision and does not make vehicles autonomous. Previously, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said there was one fatal accident involving a Tesla vehicle using FSD software between August 2022 and August 2023. This year, Musk shelved Tesla’s all-new affordable cars and increased his bets on self-driving vehicles, saying he will be shocked if Tesla cannot achieve full self-driving capability next year. In December 2023, Tesla was forced to recall nearly all its vehicles on U.S. roads to add safeguards to the software.

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☆ Elon Musk said Tesla robotaxi skeptics should try ‘full self driving.’ A Wall Street analyst nearly crashed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Tesla CEO Elon Musk says anyone who doubts how valuable robotaxis will make the company should test drive its latest self-driving car. A Wall Street analyst did just that – and said the car almost crashed. The experience of WIlliam Stein, an analyst with Truist Securities, is not unique; others have also reported problems with Tesla’s full self driving, or FSD, feature. But a note from Stein raises questions as to whether the autonomous driving and robotaxis Musk is betting Tesla’s future on are as close as he claims. Tesla’s FSD driver-assist feature is sold as an $8,000 option.

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☆ Elon Musk says he expects China to approve Full Self-Driving by the end of the year
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla China sales fell by 5.4% in the first half of the year, although the company retained third place in new energy vehicle sales, behind BYD and Geely, according to the China Passenger Car Association. BEIJING — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has again touted the impending rollout of advanced driver-assist software in China, after reporting another quarter of disappointing earnings. "Pretty soon, we will ask for regulatory approval of the Tesla-supervised FSD in Europe, China and other countries. China accounts for about 22% of Tesla's sales. Musk in April had said rollout to China "may be possible very soon," according to his response to a question on X.

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