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Silicon Valley is now the richest metro area in the US
In the never-ending battle for riches, influence and cultural domination, Silicon Valley now has the upper hand over Washington, DC.The two metros have consistently been atop rankings of the most...
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14 cutting edge firms funded by the CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency has its own investment capital arm, and it's been pumping money into some of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies for years.In-Q-Tel (named after "Q" in the James...
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Meet the matchmakers who set up dates for Google executives for a £15,000 fee
You might think Silicon Valley's tech entrepreneurs and executives at companies like Google would use online dating to find a partner. But instead, many of them turn to professional matchmaking...
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These 14 companies are quietly building cutting-edge tech for America's spies
The Central Intelligence Agency has its own investment capital arm, and it's been pumping money into some of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies for years.In-Q-Tel (named after "Q" in the James...
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How one ex-Googler convinced developers to leave Silicon Valley to work on...
Silicon Valley companies are known for their unmatched employee perks and their lucrative salaries.Google has free gourmet lunches. Facebook has an on-site barber and free laundry services. Apple...
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This robot-made pizza in Silicon Valley should terrify Domino's and Pizza Hut
A Silicon Valley-based startup wants to take a slice out of the nearly $40 billion pizza industry in the most Silicon Valley-way possible — using robots to make its pies.Zume Pizza, founded in 2015,...
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Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman once worked so hard he gave himself scurvy
The summer after he dropped out of Stanford, Sam Altman worked himself so hard he developed an 18th century disease. The head of Y Combinator is the subject of a new profile from The New Yorker. In it,...
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Tech billionaires are asking scientists for help breaking humans out of the...
The theory that we might all be living in a computer simulation has gotten so popular among Silicon Valley's tech elites that two billionaires are now apparently asking scientists to help break us out...
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Silicon Valley's robot-made-pizza startup promises to keep human employees...
The kitchen at Zume Pizza looks more like a manufacturing plant than the back room of a restaurant. Robots with swinging appendages dress up pizza crusts with marinara sauce made from locally grown...
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Paranoid people in Silicon Valley have 3 popular theories about how the world...
One of the most popular topics of conversation at some Silicon Valley parties is a grim one: how the world will eventually end.That's according to a new piece in The New Yorker about Sam Altman, the...
View ArticleGoogle kicked off its big event with a new skit from the 'Silicon Valley' guys
Today's the big day: Google is slated to unveil a slew of new hardware, notably the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, at a widely-publicized event in San Francisco.Google kicked things off with a new...
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Silicon Valley's favorite coffee chain is taking over the US with an east...
The venture-capital backed coffee chain that Silicon Valley is obsessed with is expanding to three new cities this fall.James Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle Coffee, tells Business Insider that the...
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Here's how much you should tip a barista, according to the founder of San...
Most mornings, the only person standing between you and happiness might be your coffee barista. According to one coffee expert, you're probably tipping her way too little.James Freeman is the founder...
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The founder of Bulletproof Coffee plans to live to be 180 years old — here’s...
Dave Asprey wants to cheat death. Or at the very least, he wants to delay it for a very long time.The Silicon Valley entrepreneur tells Business Insider that he has spent over $300,000 on research...
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The biggest meat processor in the US is investing in a startup that makes...
Tyson Foods, the biggest meat processor in the US, is throwing its support behind a company that aims to make veggie burgers indistinguishable from real beef.The parent company behind Jimmy Dean,...
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The plant-based burger that tastes like real meat is coming to the West Coast
The bloody, plant-based burger developed by startup Impossible Foods has been backed by Bill Gates and served by David Chang of the Momofuku empire in New York City.Now, the burger that looks like...
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Inside the Bill Gates-backed startup on a mission to reinvent meat
The world's population could reach nine billion people by 2050.The bad news for carnivores: There aren't enough resources on the planet to support sustainable animal agriculture at that scale. Raising...
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Elon Musk's biographer is wrong about one of his core personality traits (TSLA)
Elon Musk biographer Ashlee Vance has for Bloomberg composed an interesting roundup of the travails currently facing the Tesla/SpaceX CEO as he attempts to rapidly ramp up electric-car production and...
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The best marijuana vaporizer for every type of person
Marijuana sales could hit $20 billion by 2020, with help from the ever-growing vaporizer market.Vaping is an alternative to smoking that involves inhaling vapor from an electronic device. Some research...
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The secret ingredient that makes the Bill Gates-backed veggie burger taste so...
A thin, blood-red liquid spilled out of the tasting spoon and into my mouth. It tasted of metal and, unsurprisingly, of blood.I felt like I had been sucker punched, or had an unpleasant encounter with...
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