President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a press conference two days after being defeated in the presidential runoff at Alvorada Palace on November 1, 2022 in Brasilia, Brazil. Andressa Anholete/Getty Images Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro lost a tightly-contested presidential election last month. Since then, he has been holed up in his official residence. Brazil’s…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Eric Wu is a cofounder and CEO of Opendoor. Opendoor Opendoor CEO Eric Wu says the company’s algorithm didn’t predict housing market shifting so quickly. The quick market shifts rivaled those of the housing crisis of 2008, he said. The company posted third-quarter losses of over $400 million. Opendoor cofounder and CEO, Eric Wu, points…
Elon Musk sent Twitter staff a memo on Thursday confirming job cuts would be announced on Friday. Carina Johansen/Getty Images Users are quitting Twitter, and the federal government is watching it with “deep concern.” Elon Musk recently told employees that “bankruptcy isn’t out of the question.” A workplace culture expert says “exhausted” employees responding to…
Golden Door Chef Greg Frey Brady MacDonald/Insider Singapore Airlines partnered with Golden Door Spa on dishes coming to first class in 2023. See inside the $10,500 per week luxury retreat where the next round of menus were created. Golden Door has long attracted celebrities – from Liz Taylor to Oprah Winfrey to Martha Stewart. Singapore…
Sam Bankman-Fried. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images In an interview with Insider, the director of financial markets for OKX recounted two phone calls he had with Sam Bankman-Fried before FTX collapsed. Bankman-Fried initially asked for $1 billion to $2 billion from OKX, but called back hours later asking for more. The exec advised Bankman-Fried to…
See how Robinhood and Stash compare. Tim Robberts If you’re planning in 2023 to make new friends as a New Year’s resolution, there’s a new app for that — a few, in fact One of the most unique new apps, 222, calls itself a platform for unique social experiences. A Harvard study reported that 36%…
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will not be getting a New Game+ mode, even though it’s a “highly requested feature”. Whilst developer Ubisoft acknowledged that the “news will come as a disappointment” to some players, because of Valhalla’s “very different structure from its predecessors”, the open-world Viking game will be the first Assassin’s Creed game not to…
OPINION: I’ve been covering the Black Friday sales for a few years now, and each year there’s always a good selection of laptops with jaw-dropping discounts. In fact, I’ve already spotted a few bargains this year including the Surface Pro 8 for just £699 and the LG Gram 17 for only £1299.98. But there are…
It’s only been out a few weeks, but now’s the time to buy the new Amazon Echo Dot in the Black Friday salesRead More
Cows that get a little hemp may act silly—but it could also help make their lives better. DepositPhotos Figuring out what to feed a seemingly ever-growing herd of US livestock is tricky. Industrial hemp, however, has grown to a value of $824 million in 2021 and creates some 24,000 tons of leftover organic matter, according…