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Associated Press/Chelsea Oughton Four people are dead after a construction crane fell onto a downtown Seattle street on Saturday. Firefighters said all four people were dead by the time first responders arrived. The city has dozens of construction cranes building office towers and apartment buildings, thanks to Amazon and other tech companies ramping up their hiring. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Authorities say four people have died after a construction crane fell onto a street in downtown Seattle on Saturday. A spokesman from the Seattle Fire Department tells the   Seattle Times   that four people were dead by the time firefighters arrived. Others were transported to the hospital. See the rest of the story at Business Insider See Also: Kim Jong Un slated to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Russia, according to North Korean state media At least 300 people killed in Sri Lanka after churches and luxury hotels hit by explosions At least 11 are ...

The company just filed its S-1 and we finally get to learn a little more about its business. If you’re a highly anticipated tech company and not filing to go public currently, what are you even doing? Read Full Story

A learning and development specialist argues for the importance of feedback in an individual’s learning process. The March/April issue of Harvard Business Review featured an article titled,  “The Feedback Fallacy” on its cover. In it, the co-authors argue that feedback in the workplace is mostly useless, even potentially damaging, because it’s based on flawed assumptions, hidden biases, and unrecognized ignorance. Read Full Story

Andy Lyons/Getty Images The first round of the NFL draft is underway. The Arizona Cardinals selected Kyler Murray with the No. 1 pick. We are tracking every pick and how they compare to what the experts were projecting. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. With the first pick of this year's NFL draft , the Arizona Cardinals selected Oklahoma quarterback and Heisman Trophy-winner Kyler Murray. There were some rumblings before the draft that something unexpected might happen. Still, all nine NFL draft experts we surveyed before the draft were projecting Murray to go first to the Cardinals. Below, we tracked each pick of the 2019 NFL draft and compared those selections to what some of the top draft experts predicted would happen. 1. Arizona Cardinals — Kyler Murray, QB (Oklahoma) NFL Network Where the experts projected this player to be drafted  ... Mel Kiper Jr. ( ESPN ): No. 1 to the Cardinals Todd McShay ( ESPN ): No. 1 to the Cardinals Daniel Jer...

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The AI-powered airport of the future is full of promise–and peril, writes Teague futurist Devin Liddell. The first biometric airport terminal is already up and running, thanks to Delta’s collaboration with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Similar systems are now operational at Dubai International Airport , at least for first- and business-class passengers. While groundbreaking, these systems—powered by artificial intelligence—are early exemplars of the emerging technological transformation of airport and airline operations. They are working preludes to artificial intelligence’s eventual forays throughout the passenger experience. Part of these forays will be driven by technology; we’ll have increasingly smarter and capable tools for independently managing enormous complexities and creating new efficiencies. Another part will be driven by new c...

A slew of startups are using AI to push the boundaries of media manipulation–and they all promise to have ethics in mind. A little over a year ago, an anonymous Reddit user named Deepfakes changed the internet . Read Full Story

Imagine putting your newborn to bed, in an actual crib, at 30,000 feet. No parent looks forward to flying with a baby. These little bundles of joy get squirmy in your arms over the course of an hours-long flight. They don’t know how to swallow to clear their ears as cabin pressure changes with altitude. At any moment, they’re likely to start screaming in moderate discomfort, to the chagrin of every other passenger on the plane. Air New Zealand has developed a seat built just for this situation, and the project just won a prestigious Crystal Cabin Award for airline innovation. Read Full Story

Disney, a filmmaker and activist, joined Howard W. Buffett and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild at the Fast Company Impact Council on Thursday. In 2018, Disney CEO Bob Iger got a raise–a big raise. His total compensation increased 80% to hit $65.6 million. According to a recent study by Equilar , his compensation was 1,424 times that of the median Disney employee. For Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Disney cofounder Roy Disney, that level of pay is “insane.” Moreover, she says, executive pay at that level has “had a corrosive effect on society.” Read Full Story