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I tried Ina Garten's easy breakfast sandwich with delicious eggs you can make in the microwave

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Ina Garten's breakfast sandwich features eggs you can make in the microwave. Anneta Konstantinides/Business Insider I made Ina Garten's bacon, egg, and cheddar breakfast sandwich. The simple recipe takes less than 15 minutes and includes cooking the eggs in the microwave. I was shocked at how fluffy the eggs tasted, and they paired great with the bacon and avocado. As someone who spent most of her 20s in New York, few things make my heart sing in the morning as much as a breakfast sandwich . I've been missing my local bodega's delicacies, so I was excited to discover that Ina Garten included a bacon, egg, and cheddar sandwich recipe in her cookbook "Modern Comfort Food." And when I saw that Garten uses a microwave to cook the eggs for this recipe, I knew I had to try it. Ina Garten wanted her breakfast sandwich to taste "amazing" while being "easy enough to prepare in the morning." Celebrity chef Ina Garten is known for her ...

We're millennials who shopped Hollister's Y2K collection. It felt like we'd gone back in time.

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Hollister dropped a 2000s capsule collection. Samantha Pettyjohn/Business Insider Hollister released a Y2K capsule collection on Tuesday. The line included 2000s staples like babydoll tops and mini-shorts. Two millennial Business Insider reporters took a walk down memory lane and checked out the line. Millennials want to forget many things about their adolescent years, like skinny jeans and even skinnier eyebrows. Shopping at Hollister , though, is unforgettable for many of us. The store's cologne stench was so strong, it wafted through the mall. Inside, wood paneling, dim lights, and oversize plants transported you to an island boutique filled with babydoll tops and low-rise pants (and made you wish you'd worn night vision goggles). The above have disappeared from Hollister over the past two decades in favor of a modern aesthetic designed to appeal to Gen Z shoppers. At the same time, the brand has embraced retro styles, as have other retailers that were popular i...

Apple is in need of a win as it reports earnings this week

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Apple is set to report its third-quarter earnings Thursday. Agoes Rudianto/NurPhoto Apple's fiscal Q3 earnings call is set for Thursday amid tariff and AI challenges. iPhone demand in the US fell in June following tariff-related sales in April and May, analysts said. It's set to open a manufacturing academy in Detroit after promising to invest $500 billion in the US. Apple investors need some good news on Thursday after a turbulent 2025 so far. The company had some promising recent signs, but a drop in US demand, a rise in tariff costs, and lackluster Apple Intelligence continue to cast shadows ahead of its earnings report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025. Year-to-date, Apple stock is down 16%, badly lagging the top-performing Magnificent Seven stocks. One bright spot: The tech giant's Hollywood dreams showed promise. "F1: The Movie" is a global box office hit, grossing over $510 million worldwide since its June release and surpassing Apple...

How Russia's air war against Ukraine changed, as seen from a NATO surveillance jet

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A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber fires missiles during the Aviadarts competition, as part of the International Army Games 2021, at the Dubrovichi range outside Ryazan, Russia Aug. 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov NATO's E-3 surveillance aircraft have been tracking the Ukraine war since the beginning. Crew members told Business Insider that they've noticed a shift in the air element of the war. As the front lines froze, air attacks shifted from close bombing runs to standoff strikes. IN POLISH AIRSPACE — The crew of this NATO surveillance aircraft may not be able to see every detail of the fighting in Ukraine from its cruising altitude of 30,000 feet, but they still have a surprisingly clear picture of the battlefield. From high above Eastern Europe, NATO's airborne surveillance crews operating the alliance's E-3 Sentry planes have tracked Russia's evolving air war since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the early days, aircrews wat...

Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users

The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic's $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max plans. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vqQ8V9K via IFTTT

Amazon disputes report that it raised prices of popular items since Trump took office

Amazon published a lengthy rebuttal to a WSJ report that found that Amazon prices had increased since Trump announced tariff plans. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/gtlyuXW via IFTTT

Ryan Reynolds' ad agency, Maximum Effort, was behind the Gwyneth Paltrow Astronomer ad

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Ryan Reynolds is the chief creative officer at Maximum Effort, the ad agency behind Astronomer's viral ad featuring Gwyneth Paltrow. Tristar Media/WireImage Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a now-viral ad for Astronomer, a tech company. Astronomer had earlier gone viral after its CEO and head of HR were filmed at a Coldplay concert. Ryan Reynolds' company, Maximum Effort, helped produce the promotional spot. Gwyneth Paltrow isn't the only big name attached to Astronomer's cheeky response to " Coldplaygate ." Ryan Reynolds' company, Maximum Effort , announced its involvement with a lighthearted X post on Sunday. "Thank you for your interest in Maximum Effort, @astronomerio! We'll now get back to what we do best: motion pictures with Hugh Jackman, Fastvertising and Wrexham football," the post said. "We'll leave data workflow automation to ̶ G̶w̶y̶n̶e̶t̶h̶ ̶P̶a̶ Astronomer. Reynolds launched Maximum Effort with his business par...

Trump strikes a deal with the EU on tariffs

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  Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The US and EU agreed to a trade deal on Sunday. The deal sets a 15% tariff on most European goods imported to the US. The EU will invest $600 billion in the US in addition to existing investments. The US and the EU reached a trade deal on Sunday after negotiations in Scotland between President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The deal sets 15% tariffs on most European goods imported to the United States, a significant reduction from the 30% Trump had threatened earlier, but more than the 10% the EU originally sought. In return, Trump said the EU would ramp up investments in the United States. "The European Union is going to agree to purchase from the United States $750 billion worth of energy," Trump told reporters. "They are going to agree to invest into the United States $600 billion more than they're investing already." The EU also agreed to purchase a "vast amount" of mil...

‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as detailed in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, this isn’t just a matter of taking the existing movie and projecting it on Sphere’s 160,000 square foot, wraparound LED screen. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/XwFRdox via IFTTT

I always thought cruises were fun for adults. Taking my kids on one made me change my mind.

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The author's kids (not pictured) had so much fun at a cruise. Cavan Images/Getty Images/Cavan Images RF My husband and I took our first cruise 16 years ago for our honeymoon. We went on more cruises after becoming parents, but had never brought our kids with us. Taking my 10 and 13-year-olds on a cruise made me realize it's the perfect family vacation. Sixteen years ago, for our honeymoon, my husband and I went on our first cruise through the southern Caribbean. From elegant meals and relaxation by the pool to visiting multiple destinations without having to pack and re-settle repeatedly, we were sold from that first sailing. After becoming parents, we embarked on three more cruises to Alaska, Bermuda, and the Bahamas over the next decade. Each time, escaping without the kids , we found the respite we needed to return to parenting and the monotony of everyday life. We took a cruising hiatus But then COVID hit, and the idea of cruising fell to the back burner. As so...

Tesla updates Robotaxi app users about California launch

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A Tesla Robotaxi on the streets in Austin. The service launched in limited form on June 22, 2025. Joel Angel Juarez/REUTERS Tesla sent Robotaxi app users a new terms of service agreement on Saturday. It said the service will use supervised Full Self Driving software in California, with active driver oversight. Tesla told some workers it planned to launch its Robotaxi service in the Bay Area this weekend. Tesla sent Robotaxi users a new terms-of-service agreement on Saturday detailing its planned launch in the Bay Area, according to a screenshot viewed by Business Insider. The notification says rides taken outside California are "conducted autonomously." The update lays out a different setup for California, where Tesla is launching its Robotaxi service under tighter state oversight — a move that appears to address how the program complies with local regulations. "If your ride is taking place in California, it is being conducted with a safety driver using FSD (S...

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun clarifies his role after the company hires another chief AI scientist

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Yann LeCun is Meta's chief AI scientist, leading its Fundamental AI Research department. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP Meta said Friday that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, is now the chief scientist of its Superintelligence Labs. AI industry watchers questioned how this would impact Yann LeCun, Meta's longtime chief AI scientist. LeCun clarified his role in a LinkedIn post on Friday. The more the merrier at Meta. The AI talent wars took another turn on Friday when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Shengjia Zhao , co-creator of ChatGPT and the former lead scientist at OpenAI, is now the chief scientist at Meta's Superintelligence Labs . "In this role, Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for our new lab working directly with me and Alex," a statement shared to Zuckerberg's Threads account said. "Shengjia co-founded the new lab and has been our lead scientist from day one." The statement said Meta chose to f...

U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules

A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GYt57i0 via IFTTT

Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow

After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tIhw9Dr via IFTTT

A Windsurf AI engineer says Google gave him a job offer that would 'explode same day.' He didn't take it.

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Varun Mohan is the founder of Windsurf, which made an unusual deal with Google after talks with OpenAI fell apart. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The competition over AI talent in Silicon Valley shows no signs of slowing down. A software engineer at Windsurf said Google approached him with a "same day" exploding offer. Instead, the engineer said he chose Congition, Windsurf's former competitor that acquired the company. Those job offers flying left and right in the heat of the AI talent wars? They sometimes have a lit fuse attached. Prem Qu Nair, an early software engineer at Windsurf , said Google gave him an exploding job offer to join its DeepMind lab during its recent hiring blitz at the AI coding startup. In his case, Nair said he only had hours to consider Google's offer or it would be taken off the table. "I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years," Nair wrote on X on Thurs...

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

In a red-hot acquisition market, the CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ioz0NVM via IFTTT

3 parts of the market where AI hype is turning into real returns, according to Morgan Stanley

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Inside our campus network room, routers and switches allow our data centers to talk to each other. The fiber optic networks connecting our sites can run at speeds that are more than 200,000 times faster than a typical home Internet connection. The fiber cables run along the yellow cable trays near the ceiling. Google AI investments are starting to deliver as adoption gains momentum, Morgan Stanley says. Financials, real estate, and consumer sectors show significant increases in AI adoption. AI adopters are leading the stock market rally with more positive earnings revisions as well. Investors have been eager to know if the billions of dollars of AI investment are actually delivering a return for companies. Morgan Stanley thinks the answer is yes. The bank's latest version of its AI Adopter survey shows that AI exposure and adoption are clearly gaining steam. Over the last few months, the financials sector has seen AI-related gains. Among insurance companies, the amount...

ChatGPT was a homework cheating tool. Now OpenAI is carving out a more official role in education.

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, talking recently in Washington. Reuters/Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA OpenAI partners with Instructure to integrate AI into classroom instruction. Instructure's Canvas app will use AI to enhance teaching and student engagement. AI tools will assist in creating assignments, assessing students, and managing admin tasks. When ChatGPT took the world by storm in 2023, students frequently used the AI chatbot to cheat on homework assignments. Two years later, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is taking a more official role in education. On Wednesday, OpenAI and edtech company Instructure announced a partnership that brings generative AI into the heart of classroom instruction. Instructure is the company behind Canvas , a learning app that's used by thousands of high schools and many colleges. If you're a parent, like me, you've probably seen your kids checking for homework assignments and grades in this app on their phones. Going forward,...

How to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7: Get a free $200 Amazon gift card

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When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Here's where to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7. Samsung If you've been looking for a sign to upgrade your phone, let this be it. Samsung just unveiled its newest generation of foldable phones to be released on July 25, including the highly anticipated Galaxy Z Flip 7 . The latest Flip offers a redesigned edge-to-edge cover screen, new AI shortcuts, and hands-free photo and video capabilities. If you, like us, can't wait to get your hands on one, here's how to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and save some money in the process. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 deals Despite not being officially released yet, there are already plenty of ways to score a deal on the Galaxy Z Flip 7, so there's no need to pay full price. Our favorite option is a bundle deal at Amazon, which includes the phone with double the storage, plus a free $200 Amazon gift card. The bundle is cur...

Chip giant TSMC is the newest member of the $1 trillion market-cap club

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Aerial photo shows the factory of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, Aug 1, 2023. Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has vaulted to a trillion-dollar valuation. The chipmaker shot to $1 trillion for the first time last week in trading in Taipei. It reported strong Q2 earnings as AI demand and capex remain high. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the newest member of an elite club The company's Taiwanese shares surged to a record high on Friday, touching a $1 trillion valuation for the first time, while its US-traded American Depository Receipts were worth about $1.2 trillion. The stock is up almost 50% since hitting a low in April. The latest surge comes after strong second-quarter earnings. Much of TSMC's growth has been fueled by its lucrative niche market. As the primary AI chip supplier to top tech companies, including  Apple ,  Nvidia, and Qualcomm , it ha...