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Two weeks after opening her dream business, a horror-themed art jamming studio in Singapore called Scuro, Merida Lim was already thinking of quitting. Loading audio narration… “I was so sad because I felt like it wasn’t a viable business idea, but I was trapped because I signed a two-year lease,”…
It looks like the worst of the airport chaos is coming to an end. Loading audio narration… Wait times at security checkpoints have plummeted at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which was one of the hardest hit by Transportation Security Administration staffing shortages.While last week it warned passengers of four-hour lines,…
At Meta, there’s no escaping AI. Loading audio narration… The company has begun running intensive AI training weeks to encourage staff to experiment more with AI tools, according to Meta employees who spoke with Business Insider and public LinkedIn posts.The weeks have involved a series of hackathons, demos, and other…
My identical twin sons are 19 and have done everything together their whole lives. Same schools, same sports teams, same friends, same produce department at the grocery store. Until last month, they’d never spent more than a night or two apart.Then Thomas got accepted for a two-week college placement in…
For five weeks, the people screening passengers and bags at US airports have been working without pay as the government shutdown — the second in four months — stretches on.It’s hitting a workforce that often lives paycheck to paycheck on middle-class salaries and is turning to food banks and community…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia had earned $10 billion in two weeks of the US-Israeli war with Iran.That’s about 10% of what Moscow has lost in the oil trade so far this year, he said in a post on X.Zelenskyy wrote that Ukrainian intelligence reports indicated…
If you handed most people nearly $400 billion, they’d find plenty of silly ways to squander it. Warren Buffett isn’t most people.The legendary investor — known for his patience, discipline, and love of a bargain — said last year that he would happily put $100 billion to work if the…
With a love of fashion, traveling with just a backpack never appealed to me before 2022. There were always too many things I wanted to bring with me on my adventures.But since I began taking more trips over the past five years as a travel reporter for Business Insider, I…
“I guess we’re moving to Canada.”It was a quiet, almost outrageous statement considering our position. Just a few weeks earlier, Hurricane Dorian had slammed into our home in the Bahamas, a country I’d lived in my entire life.My family had spent 24 hours trapped in our attic, praying the roof…
