The Rivian R1S. Tim Levin/Insider I got up close and personal with the Rivian R1S, the startup’s new electric SUV. It has three rows and tons of storage space. The R1S’s cargo area can fit a twin bed and has tons of interesting features. Startup automaker Rivian is about to drop the coolest new electric…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Fiona Hill,arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on November 21, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fiona Hill recently spoke to Insider about Ukraine, Putin, January 6, Trump, and more. Hill said the war in Ukraine has global ramifications and could spark conflicts elsewhere. She also issued dire warnings…
Leah has been a flight attendant for four years. Courtesy of Leah Leah, a flight-attendant for a major US airline, loves her job. She says you can “feel the heaviness” of the impact of the pandemic on flights. Here’s her story, as told to writer Colleen White. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation…
People in Russia will soon no longer be allowed to use digital assets as a form of payment. Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law prohibiting the use of digital assets, such as cryptocurrency and NFTs, to pay for goods and services. In addition, as Protocol notes, the new law also requires…
Blizzard has made further changes to its Overwatch 2 hero roster in another beta mid-cycle patch. Six more heroes have had their abilities tweaked in a bid to rebalance the game ahead of its formal release, including Doomfist, Junker Queen, Orisa, Sojourn, Symmetra, and Zenyatta. Doomfist’s changes include minimum damage required to empower Rocket Punch…
Counterfeit cases for the entire iPhone 14 lineup, seeking to imitate official Apple accessories, are already available in China. The cases, shared on Twitter by Majin Bu, are intended to look like official Apple silicone cases for all four of the expected iPhone 14 models, including the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, and…
Workers install a new row of Bitcoin mining machines at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021. | Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to two federal regulators, urging them to take action on…
Enlarge (credit: Maskot/Getty) To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented understanding of…
As venture capital grew around the world, tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with…
The Southern Ring Nebula looks as though a bomb dropped into an ocean, tsunami waves surging away, into the darkness. Cosmic light, presented in the colors of a lapis stone, seems to fill a gaping crater in space. NASA scientists, giddy to reveal the new image from the James Webb Space Telescope at an event…