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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4">The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback</a>

The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">White House</div></div></div>The FT's Peter Spiegel <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f6f4d6b4-ca2e-11e3-ac05-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz31RcrBiGn">is out with an in-depth chronicle</a> of the three nights in November 2011 when Western leaders nearly blew up the Eurozone.
Among the more remarkable anecdote in the piece concerns the role President Barack Obama played in mediating the negotiations.
Previously, Obama had the reputation among European officials for being mostly aloof to the continent's affairs, as he focused on Iraq and Afghanistan.
But U.S. officials tell Spiegel that France, the European Commission and the European Central Bank "frequently dragged" the White House into Eurozone talks to serve as a counterweight to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was resisting putting up more German equity into bailing out sovereigns in the Eurozone's periphery. 
When Obama did finally engage, they were stunned by his mastery of the dossier. Eventually, he came to head the negotiations, at least over the session Spiegel covers:
...When eurozone leaders were summoned again by Mr Sarkozy at 9.30pm that night in Cannes, several were surprised to find Mr Obama chairing the meeting. "It was strange," said a member of the German delegation. "It was also a signal that Europe was not able to do that; it was a sign of weakness."
But Spiegel says Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended up pushing too hard on Merkel, to the point where she basically broke down. Here's how it went down late one night in Cannes 
"Das ist nicht fair." That is not fair, the German chancellor said angrily, tears welling in her eyes. "Ich bringe mich nicht selbst um." I am not going to commit suicide. 
...
The emotional outburst appeared to temper the American and French demands for an agreement there and then. "He saw that he went too far," one European in the room said of Mr Obama.
As the meeting adjourned, White House photographer Pete Souza snapped the above photo showing Obama giving a big brother-type squeeze to Merkel in an apparent gesture of reassurance. "The image adorned the walls of the West Wing for months," Spiegel says.
It ended up taking many more months for to resolve the crisis, and Spiegel leaves us with a cliffhanger of how negotiations proceeded from here - although we know the Eurozone stayed together.
<a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f6f4d6b4-ca2e-11e3-ac05-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz31RcrBiGn">Read Spiegel's full post here »</a>

The Untold Story Of How Obama Almost Saved Europe

Rumours that<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Is-India-better-prepared-for-an-ISIS-led-Mumbai-like-attack-The-answer-is-a-resounding-No/articleshow/49805008.cms"> India is one of the most vulnerable states to the threat of terrorism</a> cannot be ignored. As, India ranks sixth among the 10 countries most impacted by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Gurdaspur-terror-attack-Operation-over-all-terrorists-killed/articleshow/48238586.cms">terrorism in 2014</a>, according to Global Terrorism Index 2015 (GTI) which said that <keyword id="174501" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="ISIS">ISIS</keyword> and <keyword id="184592" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Boko-Haram">Boko Haram</keyword> are now jointly responsible for more than half of all global fatalities from terrorist attacks. 

	India witnessed a slight increase in terror-related deaths, up by 1.2 per cent in 2014 to reach a total of 416, the highest number of terrorist incidents and deaths since 2010. 
 

	There were 763 incidents which represent a 20 per cent increase from 2013, the report by Washington-based Institute for Economics and Peace said. 
 In India, the two deadliest Islamic terrorist groups in 2014 were <keyword id="53557" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lashkar-e-Taiba">Lashkar-e-Taiba</keyword> (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen. 

	The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/US-minces-no-words-sends-a-clear-cut-message-to-Pakistan-on-terror/articleshow/48742861.cms">Pakistan-based LeT</a> was responsible for 24 deaths in 2014, while Hizbul Mujahideen was responsible for 11 deaths in 2014, down from 30 deaths in the previous year. 
 

	In 2013 Hizbul Mujahideen was the only group in India to use suicide tactics, but in 2014 there were no suicide attacks in India, the report added. 
 

	It said that the number of lives lost to terrorism around the world increased by 80 per cent in 2014, reaching the highest level ever recorded at 32,658 as compared to 18,111 in 2013. 
 

	Pakistan was ranked fourth of the list while the US was ranked 35th among the nations most impacted by terrorism.
 

	The report added that just two terrorist groups,<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/FBI-New-York-police-aware-of-Islamic-State-video-say-no-specific-threat/articleshow/49842251.cms"> ISIS </a>and Boko Haram, are now jointly responsible for 51 per cent of all global fatalities from claimed terrorist attacks. 
 "Boko Haram, which pledged its allegiance to ISIL as the Islamic State's <keyword id="860773" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="west-Africa">West Africa</keyword> Province (ISWAP) in March 2015, has become the world's deadliest terrorist group, causing 6,644 deaths compared to ISIL's 6,073," it said. 

	India has featured 14 times in the 10 countries most affected by terrorism for the 2000-2014 period. 
 

	While India continues to be among the 10 countries most impacted by terrorism, 2014 was the first time since 2000 that India did not feature among the ten countries with highest fatalities from terrorism. 
 

	"However this is due to the growth of terrorism in other countries more than to an improvement in India," the report said adding that majority of terrorist attacks in India have low casualties. 
 

	In 2014 around 70 per cent of attacks in India were non-lethal. Of the 50 different terrorist groups that engaged in a terrorist act in 2014, 28 groups did not kill anyone, it said. 
 

	The report categorised terrorism in India into three distinct groups of communists, Islamists and separatist. 
 

	It said communist terrorist groups are "by far the most frequent perpetrators" and the main cause of deaths in India. 
 

	Two Maoist communist groups claimed responsibility for 172 deaths in 2014, which constitutes 41 per cent of all deaths from terrorism. 
 

	Police are overwhelmingly the biggest targets of Maoists, accounting for over half of the deaths. 
 

	Kidnapping is also a common tactic of the Maoists where it is often used as a political tool to force the government to release Maoist prisoners. 
 The majority of Maoist attacks occurred in the provinces of <keyword id="30033" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bihar">Bihar</keyword>, <keyword id="43945" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</keyword> and Jharkhand, the report said. 

	The dispute with Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir is the main source of Islamic terrorism. 
 

	Islamist terrorists were responsible for 57 deaths in this region, which is 14 per cent of the total deaths in India from terrorism, the report said. 
 

	The report noted that the announcement in September 2014 that Al-Qaida was establishing a presence in India has not led to a dramatic increase in terrorism by the group. 
 

	It further said that India's north-east region has for the last three decades seen continual ethno-political unrest from ethnic secessionist movements. 
 

	It termed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland as the second deadliest group in India in 2014 responsible for killing 80 people in 2014. 
 Globally, terrorism is highly concentrated in just five countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and <keyword id="6354913" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Syria">Syria</keyword> - accounting for 78 per cent of all deaths in 2014. 

	Iraq continues to be the country most impacted by terrorism, with 3,370 attacks killing 9,929 people, the highest number of terrorism incidents and fatalities ever recorded by a single country. 
 

	Nigeria recorded the largest increase in deaths from terrorism, rising by over 300% to 7,512 fatalities. 
 

	The economic cost of terrorism reached its highest ever level in 2014 at $52.9 billion, an increase of 61 per cent from the previous year's total of $32.9 billion, and a tenfold increase since 2000. 
 

	"The significant increase in terrorist activity has meant that its ramifications are being felt more widely throughout the world. What is most striking from our analysis is how the drivers of terrorism differ between more and less developed countries. In the West, socio-economic factors such as youth unemployment and drug crime correlate with terrorism. 
 

	"In non-OECD countries, terrorism shows stronger associations with ongoing conflict, corruption and violence," IEP Executive Chairman Steve Killelea said. 
 

	"Ten of the eleven countries most affected by terrorism also have the highest rates of refugees and internal displacement. This highlights the strong inter-connectedness between the current refugee crisis, terrorism and conflict." 
 

	The flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and Syria since 2011 is the largest influx in modern times. 
 

	Current estimates now range from 25,000 to 30,000 fighters, from roughly 100 countries. 
 

	Half of the foreign fighters travelling to Iraq and Syria are from neighbouring countries and a quarter from Europe and Turkey. 
 

	The flow of foreign fighters does not appear to be diminishing, with over 7,000 arriving in the first six months of 2015, it said.

	 
	 
	(Image credits: Indiatimes)

India ranks 6th among 10 countries most impacted by terrorism

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"></div></div>Russia Today, the English-language news outlet of the Russian government, is debuting a documentary Wednesday that purports to tell the "untold story" of how the Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 may have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-story-about-mh17-2014-7">actually been shot down</a> by a military aircraft in July.
The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/damning-evidence-that-russia-is-responsible-for-mh17-tragedy-2014-9">mainstream consensus</a> is that Kremlin-backed Ukrainian separatists shot down the civilian plane with a surface-to-air missile provided by the Russian government. RT, however, is pushing back against this narrative with "eye-witness interviews and expert opinion."
"The film attempts to establish what might have brought down the ill-fated airliner and all 298 people aboard," RT's website <a href="http://rtd.rt.com/">says about the documentary</a>, titled, "MH17: The Untold Story."
In the trailer, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tjMrSGMak&amp;feature=youtu.be">published</a> Tuesday afternoon, witnesses claim they saw a second aircraft that could have shot down the plane.
"I lifted my head and saw a small military aircraft in the sky. So I'm 100% sure there was a second aircraft," one man says.
Another man decisively concludes, "Aircraft MH-17 was crippled by an air-to-air missile, and as it descended, it was finished off by cannon fire."
This theory has also been presented on television propaganda networks in Russia. However, experts have noted the evidence shown in those broadcasts may have actually <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-tv-inadvertently-published-propaganda-about-mh17-that-disproved-the-kremlins-main-theory-2014-10">inadvertently proved</a> cannon fire did not bring down the plane. 
RT did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider asking whether they expect people will be convinced by the documentary.
View the trailer for RT's "MH17: The Untold Story" below.

(Additional reporting by Hunter Walker)

Putin's Propaganda Network Created Its Own Movie For MH-17 Conspiracy Theories

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"></div></div>In 2003, Martin Eberhard went to Disneyland with Carolyn, the woman who would become his wife. 
The engineer was taking the first steps to launch an electric car startup. 
It would <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10">one day become a $28 billion company</a>.
But he needed a name.
The car wouldn't be like other electric vehicles: Instead of a hippie-dippy golf cart, this would be a high performance sports car - <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-disruption-chart-2014-11">the kind that could accelerate from 0 to 60 in under four seconds</a>. 
The point was to make a car so awesome, so badass, so powerful that it would forever change what everybody thought about electric vehicles. 
But what kind of name could communicate all that? 
He'd been pitching his girlfriend on names for months. Nothing clicked.
It couldn't sound overly ecological. One of the reasons that GM's EV-1 electric car failed is that it couldn't escape from the green ghetto.
It couldn't sound too engineer-focused, either, he thought - any Leaves, Volts, or Bolts would have to be set aside.
It had to sound like a car company, not another Silicon Valley startup. 
Plus, it had to be easy to remember. 
Eberhard and Carolyn sat down at the Blue Bayou, a restaurant nestled inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. 
Romantic, right? 
On this night, Eberhard made a fateful pitch. 
What if the name honored Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American genius that invented the AC induction motor, which the new company planned on using?
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>
He said to her, "What about Tesla Motors?" 
Bingo. 
Her reply: "Perfect! Now get to work making your car."
On April 23, 2003, Eberhard's cofounder Marc Tarpenning nabbed the domain name: Teslamotors.com. 
On July 1, 2003, they incorporated. 
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>
The car <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10">that could change history</a> had its name.
This post is taken from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10">"The Making Of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, And The Birth Of The Roadster,"</a> an original Business Insider investigative feature.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-10"></a>

Here's The Untold Story Of How Tesla Motors Got Its Name

A powerful explosion, triggered by Maoists in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli has claimed the life of 15 security personnel and their driver. According to preliminary reports, an IED (improvised explosive device) was set off on a police vehicle. Around 3:30 am on Tuesday, Maoists torched 25 vehicles, using petrol and diesel in Kurkheda, Gadchiroli. PM Narendra Modi condemned the incident, calling it despicable. He added the perpetrators will not be spared. 
	
	
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="narendramodi" handlename="Chowkidar Narendra Modi" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/718314968102367232/ypY1GPCQ_normal.jpg" favoritecount="9111" retweetcount="2568" status="Strongly condemn the despicable attack on our security personnel in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. I salute all the brave… https://t.co/e6XzmCpynq" createdat="1556701343000" id="1123512982741241856"></div>









 Gadchiroli is a Maoist-affected district that borders Chhattisgarh. The district recently voted in the first phase of India’s general elections on April 11. The same day, Maoists have set off another IED blast in Gadchiroli on April 11. However, no one was injured in the event. On April 10, a CRPF soldier was injured in an IED blast in Gadchiroli. Home Minister Rajnath Singh also took to Twitter to condemn the attacks. 
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="rajnathsingh" handlename="Chowkidar Rajnath Singh" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/431732725184073728/0MGsrciP_normal.jpeg" favoritecount="1729" retweetcount="384" status="Attack on Maharashtra Police personnel in Gadchiroli is an act of cowardice and desperation. We are extremely proud… https://t.co/Hble4c6bmD" createdat="1556701558000" id="1123513883237289987"></div>





 The chief minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis has also condemned the cowardly attack on the police force. 
	
	<div type="twitter" handle="Dev_Fadnavis" handlename="Chowkidar Devendra Fadnavis" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/769893188232318976/prAWbng0_normal.jpg" favoritecount="868" retweetcount="235" status="Anguished to know that our 16 police personnel from Gadchiroli C-60 force got martyred in a cowardly attack by naxa… https://t.co/mtAcQgY8Pf" createdat="1556701533000" id="1123513779956772865"></div>





 Maharashtra DGP Subodh Jaiswal has said that the investigation is underway. According to the initial reports, the bus carrying 15 commandos was en route to the attack site where the Maoists had set ablaze 27 vehicles. The commando bus was targeted by the Maoists that killed all the 15 commandos and the driver. In April 2018, security forces carried one of the biggest anti-Maoist operations in Maharashtra, eliminating over 40 rebels. On a day when Maharashtra celebrates its statehood, the incident has raised alarms over security arrangements in sensitive areas of the state.

15 Jawans killed in a deadly maoist attack in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra

Pune will be hosting India's maiden <keyword id="6356028" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sports">sports</keyword> literature festival 'SporTale', a two-day event which will feature as many as 38 luminaries from the field of sports, media, cinema, books and photography. From Virender Sehwag's exploits on Twitter to stories that helped shape <keyword id="6354486" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Virat-Kohli">Virat Kohli</keyword>'s victorious journeys, many untold sports tales will be on the cards when the event begins here on February 21. Sharing the inside stories of their journeys and trade will be 15 sports stars, nine sports journalists, five novelists and four cine stars. Among those who have a connect with sports and sports biopics, three advertising gurus will also be part of the festival. Even the Photographers who captured the iconic sporting moments through their lenses will also join in. The man to redefine <keyword id="1521" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cricket">cricket</keyword> ethos, <keyword id="6360637" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kohli">Kohli</keyword> will share the stage with Vijay Lokapally, the senior cricketer writer with the Hindu and author of Kohli's cricketing journey 'Driven'. Indian sports biggest sensation <keyword id="406835" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dipa-Karmakar">Dipa Karmakar</keyword> along with her coach Bishweshwar Nandi will also be present to talk about an expedition from a remote town to conquer the world and etch India's impression on global gymnastics. On the occasions of the 40th anniversary of his first book 'Sunny Days', batting legend <keyword id="22169" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sunil-Gavaskar">Sunil Gavaskar</keyword> will narrate hilarious stories of his early days in cricket to another former batting great <keyword id="6363956" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="VVS-Laxman">VVS Laxman</keyword>. This is going to one big event for sports lovers in India.

Pune to kickstart India's maiden sports literature festival 'SporTale' on 21st Feb

<table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"></div>AP</td></tr></table>Zev Chafets' look at one of the most powerful figures in the conservative movement — Fox News president <keyword id="910643" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Roger-Ailes">Roger Ailes</keyword> — was released on Tuesday. 
In Roger Ailes: Off Camera, Chafets was given nearly unprecedented access to Ailes, and their discussions revealed some untold factoids about Ailes and his network. Ailes and Chafets talked about everything from Ailes' mentorship of then-fledgling radio host Rush Limbaugh to an unlikely friendship with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who calls him the "most important Republican in the country."

8 Crazy Things You Never Knew About Fox News And Roger Ailes, 'The Most Important Republican In The Country'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Vergence LabsEpiphany Eyewear.</div></div></div>Hundreds of people lined up off Venice Beach boardwalk on a sunny November morning <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-buy-spectacles-snapchat-snap-sunglasses-2016-11">to buy Snapchat's Spectacles from a bright yellow vending machine</a>.It was the first day the $130 camera glasses had gone on sale, and many were there to see what all the buzz was about. Most of them worked or had friends in the tech industry. Some planned to resell the glasses at a hefty markup online.Erick Miller had a different reason to stand in line for Spectacles that morning. He helped invent them. The idea behind Spectacles didn't come from the mind of Evan Spiegel, the visionary and reclusive 26-year-old CEO behind the newly renamed Snap Inc. The genesis of Spectacles dates back to Vergence Labs, a small Los Angeles startup that Spiegel <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-acquires-vergence-labs-2014-12">quietly acquired for $15 million in early 2014.</a>Vergence Labs was co-founded by Erick Miller and Jonathan Rodriguez in 2011. They made their own version of camera glasses called Epiphany Eyewear that, like Spectacles, could subtly record video with the press of a button. Business Insider's Alyson Shontell called the product <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/epiphany-glasses-2014-3">"a much cooler, cheaper alternative to Google Glass" in 2014</a>. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Business InsiderMiller wearing Epiphany Eyewear in 2014.</div></div></div>The real plan Miller and Rodriguez had for Vergence was much loftier than video glasses. The scrappy startup wanted to create a crop of futuristic gadgets, from AI-enabled helmets to gesture-controlled drones, that would effectively give people "superpowers." And the company already had working, if rudimentary, prototypes when it was swallowed by Snap.Today the acquisition of Vergence is just a footnote in the rise of Snap, whose <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-parent-company-snap-inc-files-for-ipo-2016-11">upcoming $25 billion IPO</a> is expected to be the largest internet debut in years. But Vergence's untold story provides a glimpse at what could be the blueprint for Snap's growing ambition to mash wearable cameras, augmented reality technology and social media into a new class of gadgets.Miller abruptly left Snap only six months after joining as director of technology and declined to be interviewed for this story. The other members of Vergence's core team still work at Snap. Rodriguez calls himself the "architect" behind Spectacles on his LinkedIn.Snap declined to make any of its employees who work on Spectacles available for interviews. But Business Insider spoke with other former Vergence employees, early investors, and people close to the startup to get the inside story of the small team that's playing a crucial role in the future of Snap.<h2>Giving people superpowers</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Erick Miller / YouTubeErick Miller (left) with Jon Rodriguez showing off their initial AR headset prototype.</div></div></div>During their time together at Vergence, Miller and Rodriguez's more than a dozen experiments included a helmet display that used facial recognition to identify people in the real world based on their Facebook profiles and a drone that could be controlled with hand gestures.While he was a graduate student at UCLA, Miller imagined a fully immersive, futuristic headset with biometric sensors that would display information over the real world and "give people what would previously be called superpowers," according to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3lWFnJekYU">an early interview</a>.He ended up pouring his life savings into prototyping the product and attracting the attention of Jonathan Rodriguez, a computer science major at Stanford whose senior thesis described "assembling an augmented reality computer with video screens and headphones as output, and inputs consisting of gaze tracking, EEG, finger tracking, and GPS."They pitched the idea to Stanford's prestigious StartX business incubator program in 2012 and were accepted. In the short video application they recorded, Rodriguez eagerly explained how they wanted to "redefine the future of face-to-face interaction."The only problem was that building expensive hardware was impossible for an early stage startup with no funding. They realized they would have to scale back their ambitions in order to actually ship a product and settled on a discrete, RayBan-inspired pair of glasses that could record video and would sell for a starting price of $300.The duo managed to attract two important first hires in Peter Brook, a Facebook engineer who had worked on the social network's failed Facebook Home Android interface, and David Meisenholder, who had worked on camera glasses that Polaroid tried to sell in 2011 with the help of Lady Gaga.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">PITME / YouTubeErick Miller (left) with Peter Brook (right) wearing Epiphany Eyewear during an early interview.</div></div></div>After they <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/social-video-glasses#/updates">ran a Indiegogo campaign</a> that raised $70,000 for Epiphany Eyewear in 2012, Miller and Rodriquez landed a few prominent early investors.One of those investors was Quora co-founder and early Facebook employee Charlie Cheever. He told Business Insider that he invested in Vergence after meeting Rodriquez at a talk at Stanford. Rodriquez showed him multiple augmented reality demos, including a rig made of two iPhones that used cameras to overlay 3D graphics over videos."I could just tell that this was a really smart kid who was pushing the envelope," Cheever said.Miller managed to win over Adam Draper, who now runs Boost VC and is the son of prominent investor Tim Draper. In an interview, Draper recalled Miller showing up late to a 2012 dinner in Palo Alto he attended to hear pitches from other entrepreneurs. Draper had dreamed of building his own Iron Man suit, and when Miller enthusiastically gave his vision for an augmented reality feature beginning with computer-equipped glasses, Draper was sold.Winning over Draper turned out to be instrumental in getting Vergence off the ground, especially given how little most Silicon Valley investors were interested in wearable computers at the time. Erick was a very persistent CEO," according to Draper. That included a relentless approach to pitching. Miller would walk around the exterior of Facebook's campus and try to catch Mark Zuckerberg walking between meetings or to his car, Draper recalled."It was a very cool thing that they were doing, but no one was excited about the space," Draper said. "No one believed in it. No one was excited about this thing. Everyone was doing consumer mobile applications. Glasses with computer vision was not part of the story."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Adam DraperPeter Brook demoing Vergence software that could control a Parrot AR drone with hand gestures.</div></div></div><h2>Spiegel swoops in</h2>Around the time it was acquired, Vergence's team of less than 10 people was working out of a small, crowded office in downtown Los Angeles across from the local police station. They would test the glasses out on the street by secretly recording off-duty cops.While the team was working on the software to power the glasses and trying to overcome manufacturing challenges, Miller asked Eli Morin to help form business partnerships and raise a Series A round of capital, Morin told Business Insider.Morin had worked at a string of tech startups, including Google-acquired AdMob, and had connections at venture capital firms like Sequoia and Accel. The two had met at a conference in San Francisco earlier that year.They brainstormed over Indian food below Vergence's office in the fall of 2013 to figure how they could market Epiphany Eyewear and pitch the glasses to investors, according to Morin."They were looking for someone to help them sell the stuff," he said in an interview. "Very few people saw the visionary potential of this product. Investors didn't. The team was super small. It was difficult."While the Vergence team had been developing Epiphany Eyewear, Google was beginning to promote Google Glass, a stamp-sized screen attached to eyeglass frames that displayed video and email and recorded video. Google Glass initially caused excitement among techies, but soon earned a reputation for being extremely geeky and creepy. Morin recalled how the team wanted to combat the Glass stigma.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Vergence LabsA model wears Epiphany Eyewear during NY fashion week.</div></div></div>"Our products are simple and Google's is complicated," Miller <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/epiphany-eyewear-like-google-glass-but-maybe-even-better-4440837">told LA Weekly in early 2014</a>. "Ours is attainable, yet it's still aspirational. And Google's is sort of out of reach and sort of disconnected with the average consumer."Positioning themselves as the cool underdog to Google Glass failed to resonate with investors, and Vergence never raised its Series A.In early November 2013, Morin proposed they look at partnering with Snapchat, which was based in Los Angeles as well and popularizing video messaging. He said he discussed the idea with Miller over ice cream in Koreatown and gave a demo of how the app worked to the rest of the team the same day."They had never used Snapchat before," he recalled. Once he showed them the app, Rodriguez remembered a connection he had to Evan Spiegel - the two lived on the same floor of their dorm during their freshman year at Stanford.Morin only came into the office every other week as a business advisor and was never involved in conversations with Snapchat, but Spiegel clearly saw the potential. He quietly brought on most of the team, excluding Morin and a few others, four months later for $11 million in cash and $4 million in stock.The details of Vergence's acquisition were never supposed to be public, and they didn't leak until the hacking of Sony's email servers in November 2014 unearthed emails from Snap board member and Sony CEO Michael Lynton.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image">Samantha Lee/Business InsiderSnapchat CEO Evan Spiegel</div></div></div>Even Vergence's earliest investors were left in the dark about the acquisition. Charlie Cheever, who was the startup's very first investor, received a phone call one day from Miller who said nothing more than, "We sold the company. We can't tell you who. You'll get a check in the mail.""In hindsight, it's a little unusual," Cheever said.Morin is currently seeking to settle contract disputes with Snap over equity compensation in Vergence he claims to be owed. Emails and documents provided by Morin to Business Insider seem to show that Miller agreed to a contract that promised Morin 1% equity in December 2013.The contract was never signed - Morin said he lost contact with Miller after it was drafted, and didn't find out about the acquisition until the Sony leaks almost a year later. "As a startup person you do stuff based on trust and equity," he said. "I didn't get a penny out of all the time and effort I put into that."A Snap spokesman couldn't find record of receiving the demand letters Morin claimed to have sent through his lawyer and declined to comment further. Morin wasn't the only one involved in Vergence to have disputes with Miller. Two early employees who didn't join Snap said that Miller created an intense office environment and was prone to fits of anger."I think for everyone who stayed, they had to do a lot of self-talk and convince themselves that they liked him or that he was doing what was best," one early employee who requested anonymity said. "If you met him out and about you would like him, but under pressure and in closed quarters it was a real challenge."Miller left Snap after serving as its director of technology for six months and now runs a small VC firm in Los Angeles called Hyperseed Ventures.<h2>What Vergence says about the future of Snap</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Snapchat/YouTube</div></div></div>The acquisition of Vergence was a foreshadowing of Snap's new identity as a "camera company." Rodriquez, Brook, Meisenholder, and a few other Vergence employees still work at Snap on the Spectacles team and Snap Labs, a secretive division working on other hardware and software products. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-snapchat-2016-10">Business Insider previously reported</a> that Snap has looked at various types of wearable cameras in addition to the Spectacles, including small clip-on video cameras, and it has had acquisition talks with several camera companies. Snap has hired hardware engineers from companies like Apple, Nest, and GoPro. The first generation of Spectacles only have one camera for recording video, but Miller and Rodriquez had imagined a three-camera system that could overlay graphics onto the real world."I think there's great potential in the displays we're researching to absolutely erase the lines between virtual reality and real reality," Rodriguez <a href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/04/15/alum-turns-honors-thesis-into-google-glass-competitor/">told Stanford's college newspaper in 2013</a>.Snap has been aggressively <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-world-lenses-update-2016-11">experimenting with augmented reality in its app</a> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-object-recognition-filters-outlined-in-patent-2016-7">and patents</a>. Early investors like Adam Draper predict that Vergence's small team will play a key role in whatever comes next."They scaled back their vision to take their first step, and that was the step they got acquired on," he said. "It was the first step towards taking over the world." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hands-on-snapchat-spectacles-video-2016-11">We got our hands on Snapchat's Spectacles - here's what they're like</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="A3eWVtNzE66m4FSkBq4MLZymOpml9Xvg" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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Filmmakers <keyword id="3162130" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vinod-bhanushali" source="Orion">Vinod Bhanushali</keyword> and <keyword id="6354782" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="sandeep-singh" source="Orion">Sandeep Singh</keyword> have come together to bring on-screen the life of late Prime Minister <keyword id="47100" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="atal-bihari-vajpayee" source="Orion">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</keyword>. The biopic is titled 'Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon, Yeh Desh Rehna Chahiye - ATAL'. The film is an adaptation of the book 'The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox' by renowned author Ullekh N.P. Talking about the film, Vinod said, "I have been a great fan of Atalji all my life. A born leader, a statesman par excellence, a visionary. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji was all the above. His contribution to our nation-building is unparalleled, and it is our great honour that Bhanushali Studios Ltd is bringing his legacy to the silver screen." Adding to that Sandeep Singh shared, "Being a filmmaker, I feel that cinema is the best medium to communicate such untold stories, that will unveil not only his political ideologies, but his humane and poetic aspects, that made him the most loved leader of the opposition as well as India's most progressive Prime Minister." The makers, who are scouting for the actor to portray the role of Atalji, will soon announce the actor and director of the film. Scheduled to go on floors in early 2023, the film will be released on Christmas 2023, which marks the 99th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 'Atal' is presented by Bhanushali Studios Limited and Legend Studios, and is produced by Vinod Bhanushali, Sandeep Singh, Sam Khan, Kamlesh Bhanushali and Vishal Gurnani, and co-produced by Juhi Parekh Mehta, Zeeshan Ahmad and Shivv Sharma. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/education/news/coaching-classes-and-edtechs-make-the-most-false-claims/articleshow/92518895.cms">Parents beware: Coaching classes and edtechs make the most false claims</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/realme-techlife-watch-r100-review/articleshow/92515922.cms">Realme TechLife Watch R100 review – decent performance with some room for improvement</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/paytm-is-on-the-cusp-of-a-cup-and-holder-breakout-explaining-the-rally/articleshow/92517971.cms">Paytm is on the cusp of a ‘cup and holder breakout’ — explaining the rally</a>

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<ul><li>As many as 30 million Indian textile workers have already lost their jobs </li><li>More than 60,000 workers are jobless in the diamond polishing sector since 2018. </li><li>Rains have played havoc with sculptors whose stock was washed away in the rains. </li></ul> Much has written and spoken the job losses in the textile and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/indian-auto-manufacturers-have-laid-off-350000-jobs-in-four-months/articleshow/70563890.cms">automobile sector</a>. Millions of blue collar employees have lost their livelihood as plants shutdowns or production cuts. But just as many if not more artists and artisans are caught in the economic spiral with less or no spotlight. And it is not merely slowdown, but weather and other social factors are adding to the plight of the millions of India’s unorganised workers. These artists who are hurt the most are those who make ₹10,000 per month or less. And a few desperate of them have resorted to suicides, since few artists have prospects outside their chosen area. Rains sweep away profits from sculptors Ideally, this month Indian idol makers should be rolling in cash as Ganapati idol sales hit a high. But, they are now lamenting over losses and pain, as heavy in Maharashtra in Sangli and Kolhapur districts have<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/maharashtra-ganpati-idolmakers-reel-under-heavy-losses-after-rain-flooding-5908852/"> swept away their</a> raw material, and annual earnings. Due to rains, the stock of idols made of plaster of paris has also deteriorated. Some have developed cracks while others rotting bases and others are bare damp leaving those who have worked all around the year, penniless. Lenders’ fury hits diamond polishers The story of artisans who shine diamonds is even worse. As US markets have lost sheen, the Indian industry is depressed. Multiple<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/nirav-modi-arrested-in-london/articleshow/68496650.cms"> scams in the sector</a> right from Nirav Modi to Mehul Choksi has also resulted in shutdowns. Moreso, the banking sector which is hurt by diamond merchants is also refusing a lifeline, deepening the crisis. As many as 60,000 workers are jobless since 2018. According to Gujarat<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/gujarats-diamond-industry-loses-sheen-as-60000-turn-jobless-and-a-few-resort-to-suicides/articleshow/70888125.cms"> Diamond Workers Union</a>, as many as ten artisans have already committed suicide. More are in trouble as a large number of units in this small and medium sized industries, are working on a single shift. Spoke in the spinning wheel As many as 30 million Indian weavers and powerloom workers have already lost their jobs, thanks to government policies and the effect of slowdown. This constitutes to a third<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/a-third-of-indias-textile-workers-30-million-lost-their-jobs-and-more-could-go/articleshow/70781257.cms"> of all textile workers</a> in India. Over 600 spinning wheels have shut down leaving 200,000 unemployed. Half of these shutdown took place in the textile hub of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, which paint a grim picture of the economy. These job losses will affect many families as a large chunk of Indian textile workers are women. Their earnings support families, which now have nothing to fall back on.

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<ul><li><keyword id="68723" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bastar">Bastar</keyword> the most “sensitive” constituency goes into polls today, with 80,000 security personnel guarding the polling booths. </li><li>Just days before the elections, a BJP MLA and four security personnel were killed in a Naxalite attack. </li><li>Both Bihar and Odisha too have been put under high alert.</li></ul>As voting commences in India, security has been tightened in polling booths across the country. But there are some polling booths, which are still marred by the blood stains caused by left-wing extremism. With just one seat to offer in the Lok Sabha, Bastar, <keyword id="45326" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chattisgarh">Chattisgarh</keyword> has 80,000 security personnel guarding the voters. Just days before the polling started, an attack by guerilla attackers in <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/several-killed-including-bjp-mla-bhima-mandavi-in-ied-blast-in-dantewada/article26782767.ece">Dantewada</a>, in the same constituency, killed BJP state legislator, Bheema Mandavi, and four security personnel. The state which has been the hotbed of left-wing extremism, also known as Maoism named after the founder of the Communist Party of China, saw an encounter on April 10, between the police and Naxalites in the Rajnandgaon District in Chattisgarh. Days before the <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019/chhattisgarh/news/maoists-ask-voters-in-bastar-to-boycott-polls-support-kashmir-separatism/articleshow/68787718.cms">election</a>, the maoists had also given out handwritten posters to villagers asking them to boycott the elections. The voter turnout in Bastar was 59% in the last general elections five years ago. India’s red corridor reflects the eastern, central and southern districts that have been most affected by the Naxalist-Maoist insurgency. While Bastar is the “most sensitive” constituency voting today, Bihar too has been under high security. Three <a href="https://www.newdelhitimes.com/2-ied-1-local-made-bomb-recovered-in-bihar/">bombs</a> were discovered in Bihar’s Gaya constituency just hours before the polling booths opened. The bombs which were placed near a government school were defused. On March 28, Maoists had also blown up ex-Bihar Legislative Council member Anuj Kumar Singh’s in Gaya, while <a href="https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/maoists-blow-up-ex-bihar-mlcs-house-call-for-poll-ban">asking voters</a> to boycott the elections. Security has also been beefed up in Telangana. In the state alone, over 5,749 polling stations have been marked as highly sensitive. Over <a href="https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/100419/70000-cops-to-guard-lok-sabha-elections-in-telangana.html">70,000</a> police forces have been deployed for the polling booths in the state. A similar situation hovers around the state of Odisha, where the <keyword id="7518639" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maoist-Constituencies">maoist constituencies</keyword> including Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Kalahandi, Nuapada and Gajapati districts have been put under high alert. The Border Security Force in the state has asked voters to vote without fear and to <a href="https://odishatv.in/odisha/cast-votes-without-fear-bsf-tells-people-in-maoist-hit-odisha-363154">send </a>out a message to maoists by voting. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/lok-sabha-elections-2019-west-bengal-voting-begins/articleshow/68824684.cms">Elections 2019: Voting begins in West Bengal amid simmering communal tensions that have polarised the state’s population</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/general-election-2019-afspa-top-issue-in-5-states-voting-today/articleshow/68823814.cms">A brutal military law is among the core election issues in at least 5 Indian states voting today</a>

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The first full-length <keyword id="28540" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Princess-Diana">Princess Diana</keyword> biopic trailer for "Diana" is finally here.
And it's pretty powerful, showing a side of the People's Princess the public has not seen.
The trailer shows a divorced Diana (Naomi Watts) falling in love with Dr. Hasnat Khan (played by "Lost" actor Naveen Andrews), a heart surgeon who couldn't handle her global fame. Watch below:

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<keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">Prime Minister</keyword> <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> has visited many countries and states since he assumed office, but he hasn’t visited India’s red corridor yet, but soon he would. As per an Economic Times report, Modi would be travelling to Dantewada in <keyword id="43945" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</keyword>'s Bastar region on May 9. This will be his first visit to the Naxalite-affected state as the Prime Minister. 
 He will launch two mega projects in Chhattisgarh. Modi will inaugurate work along with <keyword id="5269" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chief-Minister">Chief Minister</keyword> <keyword id="65641" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Raman-Singh">Raman Singh</keyword> on the 140 km Raoghat-Jagdalpur railway line to improve connectivity and sign a memorandum of understanding for an ultra mega steel plant in Dilimili village. It will be set up jointly by <keyword id="64877" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Steel-Authority-of-India-Ltd">Steel Authority of India Ltd</keyword> and <keyword id="121536" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Mineral-Development-Corporation">National Mineral Development Corporation</keyword> (NMDC). 
 Modi did not visit Dantewada for many years. He last visited the region during his election campaign as the <keyword id="58687" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharatiya-Janata-Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword>’s prime ministerial candidate. His visit was preceded by a major attack by the Maoists. Modi’s visit comes a month before the arrival of monsoon season when the Maoists prepare themselves to make their presence felt in dense forests. 
 He will also address a rally in Dantewada and visit Javanda, where the <keyword id="51011" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="state-government">state government</keyword> has established an educational centre with residential schools and colleges for 5,000 students. These institutions are for those whose studies have been hampered by Maoist attacks. 
 Modi will visit a livelihood college that helps students get jobs. He will also address a rally in Naya <keyword id="45327" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Raipur">Raipur</keyword>, before leaving for Kolkata. Modi will inaugurate a low-cost housing project and a new wing of a private hospital in the new city adjacent to the state capital Raipur. 
 
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