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☆ Boeing says it'll lose at least $125 million more as its Starliner aircraft remains stuck in space with no return date
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Boeing Starliner's return to Earth is delayed indefinitely, adding $125 million in losses. NASA astronauts have been stuck on the ISS for 57 days due to issues with its propulsion system. AdvertisementAs the Boeing Starliner's return to Earth is delayed indefinitely, the aerospace company expects to lose $125 million more. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore reached the International Space Station (ISS) via the Starliner on June 6, and were supposed to stay in space for eight days. However, due to thruster issues and helium leaks on the spaceship, they have been stuck there for 57 days and counting, with their return delayed indefinitely.

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☆ Here's a non-exhaustive list of some things JD Vance said that have aged poorly
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewSen. JD Vance of Ohio said several inflammatory things in the past, and some of it's coming back to haunt him. AdvertisementOn a Fox News "Outnumbered" episode from 2021, Vance said that the media had turned the news of Biles quitting the Olympic team "into this act of heroism." Remember when JD Vance called Simone Biles weak when she withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics? JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. Representatives for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ An ex-'Below Deck Med' cast member now crews a private luxury yacht in the Bahamas with her boyfriend. They work 16-hour days, but say it's the best hospitality job they've ever had.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementLong days for the two-men crewAn interior view of the Sailing Location yacht. Lily Davison and Nik Dorward wear multiple hats on their trips, doing everything from cooking to acting as tour guides. Tops other hospitality jobsA coconut drink served on board Sailing Location. AdvertisementAnd they haven't had any nightmare guests, Davison said, unlike when she was on "Below Deck Med." Nik Dorward and Lily Davison aboard the Sailing Location yacht.

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☆ I shopped at Urban Revivo, Asia's answer to Zara. I'm a convert, but experts say Zara has nothing to worry about — yet.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Urban Revivo's fits felt way better than Zara'sThe author trying out basics from Zara and Urban Revivo. In contrast, Urban Revivo felt like it had intentionally curated its space with a flow in mind. Aditi BharadeUnlike Zara's bright lights, Urban Revivo was lit more dimly, creating a more relaxed environment. "Urban Revivo has a variety of products, but there is a 'sophomoric' feel to it," Angel said. They also say that it's too early to determine if Urban Revivo will be a true threat to Zara.

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☆ The US just showed it can stealthily sink an 820-ft ship with a low-cost bomb, and China is scrambling to say it's not impressed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The US sank a decommissioned ship in the Pacific using a low-cost bomb from a B-2 stealth bomber. The USS Tarawa, a 39,000-ton amphibious assault ship, was sunk on July 19. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe US carried out a successful operation in the Pacific, using a low-cost bomb to sink an 820-foot-long ship, but China was quick to undermine the operation. As part of the 2024 Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), the US successfully managed to sink the decommissioned USS Tarawa on July 19.

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☆ In the age of AI, there's no future for workers content with being code monkeys — and they know it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"I think there will be a change in the way a software engineer works, and instead of five software engineers you might need four in future," she said. AdvertisementHe said that people who studied software engineering before the rise of AI tools have a stronger foundation because they have "written code from scratch." AdvertisementAn added that foundational knowledge in "algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and other critical areas" is essential for advancing AI technologies. David Malan, a computer science professor at Harvard, told BI that AI tools could be a plus for aspiring software engineers who know how to leverage them. Tejas Rajagopal, a recent computer science graduate from NTU, said he's been trying to expand his skillset to strengthen his chances of landing a job.

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☆ Russia needs men so badly that its sign-up bonuses are nearly on par with the US military's
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia has raised recruitment bonuses to $22,000 to attract more soldiers amid high casualties. The new pay package makes Russian military bonuses competitive with the US military's. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementRussia's army is bleeding, and it's raising its recruitment bonuses to US military levels to draw in more men. The announcement said that, including the monthly salary and other benefits, soldiers stand to make around 5.2 million rubles, or $61,000, in their first year of service.

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☆ Trump picking JD Vance was a 'really bad decision' and he would have been better off with Nikki Haley, ex-Trump official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump's former staffer said that he would have been better off with Nikki Haley as his running mate. Anthony Scaramucci said he thought Trump made a "really bad decision" choosing JD Vance as his VP. However, Trump has publicly supported Vance, saying he's "doing a fantastic job." AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump could've done much better than Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, his former communications director said. Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Anthony Scaramucci said that Trump stands a higher chance against Vice President Kamala Harris with Nikki Haley as his running mate.

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☆ Trump wants his fans to know he's not going to become 'nice' because the shooting didn't change him one bit
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump is vowing not to be "nice" after his near-fatal shooting at his Pennsylvania rally. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFormer President Donald Trump wants you to know that he won't be getting mellower — even after he was almost shot dead at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In a rally speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump remarked on how some people said he "became nice" after the shooting. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, —, Donald Trump Organizations: Republican National Convention, Service, Business Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, Charlotte , North Carolina

☆ Reed Hastings is going all-in on Kamala Harris with a huge $7 million bet on her presidential candidacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Netflix's Reed Hastings is donating $7 million to a super PAC supporting Kamala Harris' presidential bid. Hastings told The Information this is the largest donation he's given to a single candidate. Harris' campaign raised $81 million in 24 hours after Biden's endorsement on Sunday. AdvertisementReed Hastings on Tuesday went all in on his support for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid. The Netflix co-founder and executive chairman donated $7 million to a super PAC linked to Harris, The Information reported.

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☆ It took less than 24 hours for the attacks on Kamala Harris to get deeply sexist and extremely ugly
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewIt didn't take long for Vice President Kamala Harris to be hit with a barrage of sexist and racist attacks after President Joe Biden endorsed her for the presidential run. Harris is also facing a barrage of sexist attacksThe GOP is baselessly accusing Harris of sleeping her way to the top. JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. Although Hillary Clinton also bore the brunt of sexist attacks as a female presidential candidate in 2016, the experts told BI that Harris is going to have it much worse. Representatives for Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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Read previewMemes and celebrity endorsements have already set the tone for Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Kamala HQ instead posted a Venn diagram, with the two outer circles, "Biden HQ" and "Kamala HQ" merging to form "holding Trump accountable." Across the social media landscape, the energy is palpable, said David Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University. "When you've got a good social media team that has arrived at a cultural moment and pent-up enthusiasm, they get to play with it." While Harris' team is focusing on younger voters and voters of color, the appeal of social media transcends age, North said.

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☆ MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris. Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden. Biden's withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race. AdvertisementIn the wake of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the Democratic Party's 2024 race, it sure looks like MAGA world will be very sad to see him go. Biden decided on Sunday to reject his party's presidential nomination, and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris for the top ticket instead.

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☆ Kamala Harris' opening argument: Vote for me and I'll decimate Project 2025
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewShortly after President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination, Harris made her opening pitch to the country, arguing that voting for her will allow her to decimate the controversial Project 2025. I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda. Although Harris said that she is determined to defeat former President Donald Trump and "his extreme Project 2025 agenda," Trump himself has called the project "ridiculous." Related storiesHe attempted to distance himself from it with a post on his Truth Social on July 5, saying: "I know nothing about Project 2025." "I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal," Trump wrote.

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☆ Some airports were forced to use whiteboards to handwrite flight information due to the global IT outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Pete Syme | Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A global IT outage saw airports in Belfast and Singapore handwrite flight information. A Belfast International Airport spokesperson told BI all systems have since been restored. AdvertisementStaff at several airports had to handwrite flight information on whiteboards due to a worldwide IT outage. Business Insider saw whiteboards at Singapore Changi Airport being used to allocate check-in lines for the budget airline Scoot. Almost 7,000 miles away in Northern Ireland, a Belfast International Airport spokesperson told BI that whiteboards were being used, but all systems have since been restored.

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☆ Elon Musk praises the first prime minister of Singapore as 'brilliant' in response to a glowing blog post about the country's airport
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewElon Musk said that Singapore's first prime minister, touted as the country's founding father, was a "brilliant" man. Mack wrote about Lee's efforts in conceiving Singapore's Changi Airport, which has been named the world's best airport 12 times by London-based research firm Skytrax. Singapore's award-winning Changi Airport. John Seaton Callahan/Getty ImagesBefore Singapore's Changi Airport became operational in 1981, the island state had a small commercial airport located inland on the east side of Singapore, called Paya Lebar Airport. The country's largest public universities, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, ranked 8th and 15th, respectively, in the 2025 QS top universities rankings.

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Read previewMajor airlines, banks, and supermarkets are experiencing widespread disruptions linked to an IT outage after Microsoft reported problems with its online services. American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines are among the airlines that have issued ground stops for their aircraft due to communication issues, Reuters reported. A spokesperson for Singapore's Changi Airport told BI: "Due to a global outage affecting IT systems of many organizations, the check-in process for some airlines at Changi Airport is being managed manually." On Thursday night, Frontier Airlines issued a ground stop order, saying in a statement: "flight operations are currently being impacted by a major Microsoft technical outage." AdvertisementThe Austin-headquartered tech giant, which specializes in security for cloud computing platforms, confirmed with CNBC on Friday morning that it was receiving outage reports.

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☆ A second Democratic senator just called on Biden to not seek a second term
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Montana's Sen. Jon Tester is the second Democratic senator telling President Biden to quit the race. "I've never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong," the senator said. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMontana's Sen. Jon Tester has just become the second Democratic senator who has called on President Joe Biden to end his reelection campaign. "And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek re-election to another term," Tester said.

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As boarding, tickets, and pilot communication channels were affected by the outage, passengers were hit with delays and cancellations. AdvertisementScott Sanders, a passenger at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, told Business Insider that people were sleeping on the ground due to the disruption. Sanders' flight to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) had been scheduled to depart on Thursday at 10:55 p.m. 'Tired and hopeless'At Los Angeles International Airport, Sarah Patterson experienced a similar disruption. "We sat on the tarmac for an hour, and they said it was a technical issue with Microsoft," Ebule told BI.

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☆ NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewNASA is scrapping a moon rover it spent $450 million to construct, and axing the machine's mission to find water on the moon. The agency discontinued the development of VIPER — or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — because it proved exceedingly expensive. According to the Times, the agency would save at least $84 million by not conducting the testing and not having to operate the rover on the moon. Representatives for NASA did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ The Trump-Vance campaign says they won't agree to a VP debate date until Kamala Harris picks 'her running mate'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe Trump-Vance campaign is seemingly operating under the assumption that President Joe Biden will quit the race soon and let his Vice President Kamala Harris run for president. "To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate," Hughes added. Biden-Harris communications director Brian Fallon told Business Insider that the Trump-Vance campaign was trying to back down from having to debate Harris live. Representatives for the Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours. In anticipation of a switch of candidates, Trump has already come up with nasty nicknames for Harris, including "Laffin' Kamala Harris" and "Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris."

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☆ JD Vance's wife Usha has SCOTUS ties going back to when she clerked for both John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

JD Vance's wife, Usha Vance, was a corporate lawyer, but she quit her job on Monday. She does have SCOTUS links, having clerked for Supreme Court judges John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh. AdvertisementAll eyes were on Sen. JD Vance of Ohio when former President Donald Trump picked him as running mate for the 2024 race. But his wife, lawyer Usha Chilukuri Vance, is also accomplished in her own right — and has links to the US Supreme Court. Born to Indian immigrant parents and raised in the San Diego suburbs, Usha Vance went to Yale Law School with the Ohio senator.

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☆ A former FBI official says Secret Service snipers could have mistaken the Trump shooter for a police sniper
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

An ex-FBI official says the Secret Service may have had a comms breakdown at the Trump rally shooting. Frank Figliuzzi said agents may have mistaken the shooter for a police sniper. He said security protocols and coordination between the Secret Service and local police need improvement. AdvertisementA former FBI official says a communications breakdown between the Secret Service and the local police may be to blame for why President Donald Trump got shot at on Saturday at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally. Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI official, said that the Secret Service may have mistaken the shooter for a Butler policeman.

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☆ Trump is back out in the spotlight for the first time after his assassination attempt, and he's wearing a massive rectangular bandage over his ear
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump has appeared at his first major event since being shot at in Butler, Pennsylvania. He arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with a giant bandage on his ear. The crowd welcomed him with applause and cheers as "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood played. He pulled up to the first day of the Republican National Convention 2024 in Milwaukee, sporting a massive rectangular bandage that covered almost his entire ear. The crowd erupted into applause as Trump entered the venue, and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" played.

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☆ A classmate of the Trump shooter says the gunman was such a bad shot he got rejected from their high school rifle team
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Myers told ABC News Crooks had tried to join their high school's rifle team, but was rejected and told not to try out again. According to CBS News, Myers was in the Bethel Park High School varsity rifle team. He told CBS he and Crooks were close in elementary school but not in high school. Another anonymous rifle team member told ABC News that people believed Crooks "wasn't really fit" to join them. Outside school, Crooks was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen's Club, a club with multiple pistol and rifle ranges in Clairton, Pennsylvania, CBS News reported.

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