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When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreThere’s nothing more frustrating than finally setting up your TV, console, or streaming device, hitting the power button, and being greeted by a big “No Signal Detected” message. In many cases, the culprit isn’t your TV or gadget — it’s a bad or outdated HDMI cable. To save you that headache, our tech experts rounded up the best HDMI cables that work reliably with today’s devices.For most people, the Amazon Basics 48Gbps HDMI cable is the best option. It’s affordable, widely available, and consistently dependable in…
When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s appointment in confusion. Their toddler – who was very social – didn’t resemble the picture of the condition they thought they knew. And the specialists could offer little clarity about why or what lay ahead.It wasn’t until four years after their child’s diagnosis that the Eastons finally began to get answers that offered them a glimmer of understanding. This summer, a team from Princeton and the Flatiron Institute released a paper showing evidence for four distinct autism phenotypes, each defined by…
I am anything but the target demographic of the new brand called, painfully, Man Cereal. I know the creators of this concoction are not trying to sell me this breakfast. I don’t know this because I asked, but because the cereal’s branding basically screams, “BRO, THIS WILL JACK UR DELTS.” The box features bold, black typography and a solitary cereal puff against a white background. The website commands you to “add some balls to your breakfast.” And for the low-low price of $58 per pack of three, you can feast on 2.5 mg of creatine per serving. If a cereal could…
OpenAI had a year of high-profile departures.Over the summer, the ChatGPT creator lost at least seven researchers and scientists to Meta’s billion-dollar effort to beef up its AI team at its Superintelligence Lab.This came after the company saw an exodus of top executives in 2024 amid a restructuring effort, including chief technology officer Mira Murati, chief research officer Bob McGrew, and vice president of research Barret Zoph.CEO Sam Altman is now one of only two active remaining members of the company’s original 11-person founding team.Here’s a running list of researchers and executives OpenAI has lost this year and where they’ve ended up.…
Chief marketing officers at many of the world’s biggest brands made artificial intelligence a centerpiece of their strategies this year.For some brands, the enthusiasm ran into risky territory. From AI-generated ads that veered into the “uncanny valley” to backlash over replacing human models and advertising creatives, AI’s growing role in advertising fueled a string of controversial marketing moments. The AI backlash even led to its own marketing trend: brands hating on AI.A survey of more than 6,000 US consumers conducted by the brand-tracking platform Tracksuit in November found that overall sentiment toward AI-generated advertising skewed negative (39%). Neutrality was also…
With further changes to the U.S.’ recommended vaccine schedule likely in the year ahead under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, his agency’s recent scrutiny of one vaccine additive in particular — aluminum salts — may offer a clue about what’s to come.Earlier this month, members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee — whom Kennedy selected after firing the previous group — suggested digging into concerns about aluminum salts, though large studies have found them to be safe. Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, told NBC News that…
When Rebecca Koltun met a man in the VIP section of a club in Tampa, she didn’t ask her friends for advice. She asked ChatGPT.Should she text him first?”Chat told me no,” said Koltun, a 26-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida, who works for a ballet nonprofit. “It said that this is a guy in a VIP section. He’s used to girls’ attention. The best thing to do is leave him alone and wait for him.”A week later, the man texted Koltun. “So chat’s advice worked,” she told Business Insider.This is the second installment of Business Insider’s Love in the Age…
As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year that you may have missed in the flurry of news and the busyness of living.There are storybook endings and heartbreak. Some are stranger than fiction, and others take you behind the scenes. Even if you read them the first time around, the stories on this “in case you missed it” list are worth revisiting. A story for the super sleuthsIf you have ever felt that nagging sense of the unknown, you may be able to relate to Robert Friedrichs and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aaron Cannon, the 37-year-old founder of Outset, who resides in San Francisco with his wife and three-year-old son. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I decided to start my company while I was on paternity leave.It’s very woven together: starting a family and starting a startup happened along a similar timeline. I definitely have a lot of people who think that’s a little insane. It is. I have wistful moments thinking about, “Man, what if I could do all this when I was 25 and single?”Then I quickly remind myself that…
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish or have fallen prey to misinformation.As professors with expertise in vaccine policy and health economics, we argue that the decision not to vaccinate isn’t simply about misinformation or hesitancy. In our view, it involves game theory, a mathematical framework that helps explain how reasonable people can make choices that collectively lead to outcomes that endanger them.Game theory reveals that vaccine hesitancy is not a moral failure, but simply the predictable outcome…