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Zenefits

More details are rolling out about Zenefits' compliance issues and decisions that were "just plain wrong" that led to the ousting of now ex-CEO Parker Conrad earlier this week.

Apparently, after Zenefits was accused of not being properly licensed to sell insurance in multiple states, as reported by BuzzFeed, the company did an internal investigation.

And it discovered a secret training program called "Macro" that "may have allowed" employees to cheat at a mandatory online course... Читать дальше...

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For the iPhone, January 1, 1970 was not a good day.

There's a bug that will render modern iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models useless. All you have to do to turn your expensive iOS device into a brick is set its clock to the aforementioned date.

The bug started receiving attention on Reddit Thursday with people experimenting on their own iOS devices to see if it worked. Some recorded the process, which involves changing the date in the Settings app and rebooting the device... Читать дальше...

Its true that ancient India had a glorious past, besides other things even in research and development (R&D). But, unfortunately, it has failed to carry it forward and hence the country lags behind in R & D and in technology development. The research methodology, which is being imposed from the western world, would not take India forward. It needs to follow its own strategy and in its own way.

'Soft salary cap' is expected to be repeated ahead of next season's £8?billion bonanza, writes Sam Wallace

State Controller Thomas DiNapoli’s office shows state agency overtime jumped by 8.3% in 2015 over 2014 to a record $716.1 million.

Former MP and BJP leader Datta Meghe has announced to raise voice for separate Vidarbha and reorganizing Vidarbha Pradesh Vikas Parishad (VPVP) on February 28.

UPDATE: 5:22 p.m. EST — This story was updated to include information provided by a Tidal representative.  The people’s demand for Kanye West has overwhelmed both Tidal and Periscope, as more than 20 million people flocked to the performance's stream.

Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.

Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by the extremist Boko Haram group to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.

DENVER - Court documents show a man questioned in the killing of Colorado's prisons chief brazenly tried to break into the home of a former corrections employee.

At least three Auschwitz survivors were present in court today.

What role does mental illness — particularly bipolar disorder — play in creativity and art? Does experiencing the dramatic highs and lows of the illness fuel creation, and does treatment of symptoms dampen that artistic energy? Freshman filmmaker Paul Dalio’s “Touched with Fire” explores the romance between two poets with the affliction. Forces both internal and external drive the couple together and apart as they struggle to write, love, and survive. Carla (Katie Holmes) begins the film at a low point... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks fell Thursday for the fourth day in a row as concerns about global economic weakness intensified.

U.S. stocks fell Thursday for the fourth day in a row as concerns about global economic weakness intensified.

U.S. stocks fell Thursday for the fourth day in a row as concerns about global economic weakness intensified. Financial stocks fell hardest as investors worried that interest rates in the U.S. and elsewhere would remain low and sap bank profits. Oil prices sank again, this time to their lowest levels since May 2003.

BREAKING NEWS!

Janet Yellen said Thursday that the Federal Reserve had no plans to move toward negative interest rates, following the Swedish central bank`s rate cut deep into negative territory.

An unidentified caller on Thursday afternoon alerted police about a pistol and few bullets in the dicky of a junked scooter in the basement of a building near Phadke Houd Chowk at Kasba Peth, prompting cops to suspect the firearm was used in the firing case at a Kothrud mall last month.

The Saints definitely will be keeping quarterback Drew Brees for 2016. Wednesday’s non-news news that $10.85 million of his $19.75 million base salary had become fully guaranteed omitted a piece of new news that means Brees will not be going anywhere. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Brees deal has no offset language…

Split-campus option raised in new tender, after old approach to market was torn up.

Oil prices have crashed to below $27 a gallon -- a level not seen since 2003 -- which makes a barrel of crude cheaper than lots of everyday purchases that we don't think twice about.

Lawmaker says Congressional Black Caucus backed Sanders with too little input.

The United States might be considering using Iceland’s Naval Air Station Keflavik to fly its P-8A Poseidon spy planes.