The heart of every major galaxy is thought to contain a supermassive black hole — a place where gravity is so strong that anything, including light, gets devoured.

Like all black holes, supermassive ones form when stars collapse in on themselves at the end of their life cycles. On average, they're millions of times more massive than the sun.

For years, scientists have struggled to capture a black hole on camera, since the absence of light renders them nearly impossible to see.

But on April 10, a group of scientists from the international Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first-ever photograph of a supermassive black hole to the public. Though the image was fuzzy, it signified a major milestone for space research.

The accomplishment has now earned the team a 2020 Breakthrough Prize, which was awarded on September 5. The prize was started eight years ago by a team of investors including Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, and is often referred to as the "Oscars of Science."

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) team will collectively receive $3 million, but the money will be divided equally among the group's 347 scientists, giving each person around $8,600.

What the black hole photograph shows

The April image captured a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 54 million light-years away from Earth. The black hole in the photo likely had a mass equivalent to 6.5 billion suns.

Black holes are defined by a border called the event horizon: a region of space so dense with matter that not even light can escape its gravity. This creates a circular "shadow," where all light and matter is gobbled up.

Outside the event horizon, supermassive black holes have an accretion disk — clouds of hot gas and dust trapped in orbit. Though scientists can't see beyond a black hole's event horizon, they can detect the gas and dust in that disk, since the material gives off radio waves that can be captured by a high-powered telescope.

This is what EHT scientists captured in their groundbreaking image.

An artist’s impression of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. Key features of black holes are labeled in red.ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser; Business Insider

"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, told Business Insider in October. "It glows brighter the faster and hotter it gets. Eventually, the gas cloud gets close enough that the pull of the black hole stretches it into a thin arc."

To capture the image, researchers relied on 8 telescopes

The EHT scientists are stationed all over the world, at 60 institutions across 20 countries.

To capture the photograph, they relied on eight radio telescopes, operating in Antarctica, Chile, Mexico, Hawaii, Arizona, and Spain. They used a network of atomic clocks — extremely precise time-keeping devices that can measure billionths of a second — to sync up the telescopes around the world.

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The EHT project began collecting information about black holes in 2006.

The image released in April was the result of observations that started two years prior.

"It feels like looking at the gates of hell, at the end of space and time," Heino Falcke, an Event Horizon Telescope collaborator, said when the photo was published in April.

The controversial data-analytics company Palantir may be pumping the breaks on going public.

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the Palo Alto, California-based tech firm — most recently valued at $20 billion — was in talks with private investors to raise "significant funding." Previously, Palantir was reportedly targeting an initial public offering in 2020.

Palantir has courted Singapore's Temasek Holdings as well as the Japan-based SoftBank Group and other non-US investors to participate, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Palantir's cofounder and chairman, Peter Thiel, told employees recently that the company would not be going public within the next three years, Bloomberg reported. That could set a Palantir IPO date back to 2022 or 2023.

Palantir did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Palantir, which has never been profitable, had reportedly been making efforts to gear up a public offering, which included hiring its first sales team and eliminating lavish employee perks, like 13-course tasting-menu lunches, that could raise eyebrows among public market investors. Employees were also reportedly no longer allowed to expense last-minute international airfare and at least one person was fired for expensing off-the-wall purchases like lingerie.

Read more: This $20 billion startup is reportedly cutting lavish perks as it tries to kill its employees' 'entitlement syndrome' ahead of a possible IPO

Because of Palantir's work with the US military and government agencies, the data-mining firm has long been subject to scrutiny by outside critics. Most recently, Business Insider learned that Palantir employees themselves were becoming increasingly split over the company's ties to government work — specifically its business dealings with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency involved in detaining and deporting people over immigration violations.

Tuesday might go down as a turning point for the cloud-storage company Box.

According to a regulatory filing, the activist hedge fund Starboard Value purchased 11 million shares of the company, giving it a 7.5% stake. That makes Starboard the third-largest stakeholder in Box, behind Vanguard Group and BlackRock.

Starboard's involvement is poised to put Box's cofounder and CEO, Aaron Levie, in a predicament, several reports note, because the hedge fund has a track record of waging intense proxy battles for company ownership, ousting existing management, and spearheading major acquisitions.

Perhaps most notably, Starboard is credited with helping make it possible for Verizon to acquire Yahoo in 2016, after it successfully negotiated control of four board seats.

Read more: Peloton's CEO once bragged on TV that the company was 'weirdly profitable,' but the startup's IPO filing reveals years of losses

In the filing disclosing its stake, Starboard said only that Box was "undervalued and represented an attractive investment opportunity."

Levie seconded that sentiment Thursday. "In the case of Starboard and many of our investors, there's a belief we're undervalued right now and there's an opportunity to grow that value," he said onstage at the TechCrunch Sessions Enterprise event in San Francisco.

To that end, Business Insider spoke with several analysts, and the consensus appears to be that Starboard's most likely play is to pressure management into improving the company's profit margins. That could force Box to cut costs — which could mean layoffs. Besides that, the analysts said, Box could well end up get gobbled up by a larger tech company.

"Starboard, as a more value-oriented activist, saw a very good product here and a company that was, let's say, still trying to figure it out and maybe hasn't fully adapted to the fact that the growth rate of the business is a lot lower than they expected it to be a couple of years ago," Jason Ader, a cohead of technology equity research for the analyst firm William Blair, told Business Insider.

Amid all of this, Box has had a difficult year on the public markets, even as it continues to compete with cloud behemoths like Google and Microsoft in enterprise cloud storage. At the time of writing, it was trading at about $17 a share. That's up from the $15 or so it was trading at before Starboard announced its stake but well below its 52-week high of about $25.

"The company is in this purgatory between growth investors and value investors right now, which presents interesting opportunities for activism," Ader said. "An activist could really accelerate growth and attract growth investors, or try to accelerate profitability to attract value investors, but I would think it's more the latter with Starboard."

"While we do not comment on interactions with our investors, Box is committed to maintaining an active and engaged dialogue with stockholders," a Box spokeswoman told Business Insider. "The Board of Directors and management team are focused on delivering growth and profitability to drive long-term stockholder value as we continue to pioneer the Cloud Content Management market."

That, too, echoes Levie's comments on Tuesday.

"We're extremely focused on accelerating our growth rate," Levie said. "With Starboard or any other investor, that's what we tend to be focused on."

Here's what we know about Starboard and what its investment may mean for Box's future.

Rosalie Chan contributed reporting to this story.

Medium is working on “Save to Medium”

This could turn Medium into a reader app

I wrote about my thoughts and security analysis: https://t.co/yZNLsthPsD pic.twitter.com/doNwpLplcB

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 5, 2019

Medium lowers its paywall for Twitter users

If you're in the market for a new laptop, but don't want to spend a ton of cash getting one, then Best Buy may have a deal for you. Right now, you can get a new Lenovo 15-inch laptop for an impressively affordable $179.99— which is $120 off its normal price.

There are a few things that make this a great laptop for the price. For starters, while the laptop may not be the most powerful out there, it's pretty good for a laptop in this price range, offering an Intel Pentium 2.3GHz processor, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 500GB of storage — which should be more than enough storage for most. The display on the laptop comes in at 15.6 inches, and it has a resolution of 1,366 x 768. It also comes with a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office 365.

The laptop isn't bad-looking either. It comes in a sleek black color, and measures in at 0.78 inches thick, which is actually very slim. Around the edges, you'll get two USB 2.0 ports and two USB-C ports, along with a headphone jack and a HDMI port to connect the device to external displays. The laptop comes with Windows 10 S, which is the lighter-weight version of Windows 10, and has a battery life of 5.5 hours on a single charge.

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Making connections on LinkedIn can help you grow your professional network, and may lead to new opportunities. But sometimes those connections are no longer something you wish to maintain, and removing connections can help you streamline your network.

Removing connections can also help you stay within LinkedIn's network size requirements (if you're somehow getting close to making 30,000 connections).

Here's how to remove connections on desktop and mobile, whether you know who you want to remove by name, or need to find people by searching through all of your connections.

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How to remove connections on LinkedIn on a computer

If you're already on the profile page of the person you want to remove from your LinkedIn connections, you can easily do that by clicking the "More..." button in their introduction card, and selecting "Remove Connection."

You can remove connections right from that connection's profile page. Devon Delfino/Business Insider

But you can still get it done if you aren't sure about their name, as long as you can recognize the name or profile photo of the person you want to remove from your connections.

Here's how to remove a person via the Connections page:

1. Go to linkedin.com and log into your account, if necessary.

2. Tap "My Network" in the top toolbar.

3. Click "Connections" in the left-hand sidebar.

You can click "Connections" to open a full list of the people you've connected with. Devon Delfino/Business Insider

4. Scroll through your contacts list; when you see the person you want to remove, click the three dots to the right of their name and the "Message" button.

Select "Remove connection" to delete them from your list. Devon Delfino/Business Insider

5. Select "Remove connection."

How to remove connections on LinkedIn on the mobile app

Just like the desktop version of LinkedIn, the mobile app allows you to remove connections either via their profile page or the Connections page.

If you know the name of the person you want to cut ties with, you should type that name into the search bar to get to their profile. From there, tap the three dots next to their name and select "Remove Connection," and confirm your choice by tapping "Remove Connection" one more time.

Otherwise, here's how to get it done via the Connections page:

1. Open your LinkedIn app and log into your account, if necessary.

2. Tap the connections icon in the bottom toolbar and select "View Connections" at the top of the screen. If the top of the screen instead reads "My Communities," tap that, and then tap "Connections" in the next menu.

Open your full Connections list. Devon Delfino/Business Insider

3. Scroll through your connections until you find the one you want to remove — once you find that connection, tap the three dots to the right of their name and select "Remove Connection."

Tap "Remove Connection." Devon Delfino/Business Insider

4. Confirm your choice by tapping "Remove Connection" in the pop-up window.

If you're a professional looking to advance in your career field, networking is paramount.

After all, your dream job won't just come along and be dropped in your lap — you have to go out there and take advantage of every available opportunity.

That's why creating a LinkedIn profile and sharing it with your connections and colleagues is such a good idea.

Once you've set up your LinkedIn profile with all the relevant information — your education, work history, skills, interests, and more — it's time to share your profile with those who might be interested in seeing it.

Here's how to do it on the LinkedIn website and mobile app.

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How to share your LinkedIn profile on desktop

1. Go to https://www.linkedin.com and log in using your user name and password.

2. In the menu bar running across the top of your screen, click the Me icon, which appears with a mini version of your profile photo.

3. Click View Profile to be taken to your profile page.

4. In your introduction card — the top box of your profile page which contains your name and a few abridged details about your current employment and education — click "More…"

Click "More..." to share your profile. Jennifer Still/Business Insider

5. From the dropdown menu, click Share Profile. This will launch a menu box in which you can type in the name of the connections you wish to share your profile with, and click Send.

You can now type in someone to share your LinkedIn profile with. Jennifer Still/Business Insider

You can also share another member's profile in the same way. Simply navigate to their profile page and follow the steps above.

How to share your LinkedIn profile on the mobile app

1. Locate the LinkedIn app on your iPhone or Android's home screen and tap to open.

2. Go to the profile you wish to share. To share your own profile from the mobile app, you will have to know your own LinkedIn URL and type it in manually.

3. Click the "More…" button in the introduction card of the profile you're sharing.

4. On iOS, choose Share via private message. On Android, this option will appear as Share Profile.

Select "Share via private message" on your iPhone. Jennifer Still/Business Insider

5. Type the names of the people you wish to share the profile with in the relevant field and hit Send when done.

If you want to share your own LinkedIn profile (or anyone else's) outside of the platform, you can also simply copy and paste the URL of the LinkedIn profile page. For more information, read our article, "'What is my LinkedIn URL?': How to find your LinkedIn URL or change it to a custom address."

New regulatory documents sent to Business Insider provide a glimpse into SpaceX's plan to develop a disruptive new rocket system over the next two to three years.

Every day at Boca Chica — a hot, humid, narrow, and sandy strip of clay at the southernmost tip of Texas — SpaceX workers toil over the rocket company's big project, called Starship.

An illustration of SpaceX's Starship vehicle on the surface of the moon, with Earth in the distance.Elon Musk/SpaceX via Twitter

Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, envisions the vehicle as a shiny steel two-stage launch system that may stand nearly 400 feet tall and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of 100 to 1,000 by having fully reusable hardware.

It may be capable of sending massive payloads into orbit, humans to the moon and Mars, and scores of passengers around the world in half an hour.

Read more: SpaceX is eyeing these 9 places on Mars for its first Starship rocket missions

The new regulatory review, which the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet published to its website, came about after the company substantially changed its vision for Boca Chica. Business Insider was sent PDFs of the files (below) via email from an FAA representative.

The FAA's main document is a 23-page "written reevaluation," which addresses the potential impacts of SpaceX's new plans. It's accompanied by a separate five-page addendum that addresses a large brush fire the company accidentally started during an experimental launch in July.

The two documents follow a years-long environmental assessment that the FAA, SpaceX, the state of Texas, and local authorities hammered out by July 2014. That original corpus of more than 1,600 pages is an exhaustive (though now dated) official review of SpaceX's site that the FAA uses in part to approve or deny the company's launch licenses there.

The new assessment covers SpaceX's shift away from developing a commercial spaceport and confronts its new reality as a skunkworks for Starship.

The FAA reevaluated SpaceX's site after a big change in the company's plans

A May 2014 rendering of a Falcon Heavy rocket at SpaceX's South Texas launch site near Boca Chica Beach. The company ultimately changed its plans and design for the facility.SpaceX via FAA

SpaceX's site is located about 20 miles east of Brownsville, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border, and about half a mile from Boca Chica Beach.

The company originally agreed to build a commercial spaceport by spending about $100 million on the effort, including some $15 million worth of incentives from county and state governments. Space missions were supposed to start launching by the end of 2017, with up to a dozen trips each year.

Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets were to take off from a large launchpad equipped with a flame trench (to redirect hot rocket exhaust), a 250,000-gallon deluge system to flood the pad with water (to suppress sound and cut fire risk), lightning protection towers, and other safety features.

Yet before SpaceX could do anything, it had to go through a gauntlet of filing an environmental impact statement with the FAA. The company spent years studying the site and meeting with local, state, and federal officials.

The resulting EIS captures the potential environmental impacts to the area, and it was finalized in July 2014. For a variety of reasons, though, SpaceX's construction in the area slowed to a crawl almost as soon as it began.

Read more: Elon Musk is building SpaceX's Mars rockets in a tiny Texas hamlet. But getting them off the ground there may be harder than he imagined.

By May 2018, Musk said that SpaceX was dropping its commercial-spaceport plan and instead dedicating the site to building and flying Mars rocket-ship prototypes. The company is now using different launch vehicles (Starship prototypes), different fuel (methane instead of RP-1, a rocket-grade kerosene), and a new rate of launches, as well as switching up construction projects and other details.

A comparison of SpaceX and NASA rocket systems. Yutong Yuan/Samantha Lee/Business Insider

This shift in plans prompted the FAA to step in, reevaluate, and square these new details with the original EIS to see whether there'd be any unaddressed public-safety threats or environmental damage.

The document neatly lays out the crux of SpaceX's experimental test program:

"SpaceX remains committed in its mission to colonize Mars. To achieve this mission, SpaceX is developing a new rocket called the Starship and Super Heavy. A key part of the mission is developing the Starship spacecraft. In order to fully develop the vehicle, an experimental test program is needed. The proposed experimental test program involves testing a spacecraft — the Starship — which would serve as the second stage of the rocket. The objective of the experimental test program is to perform a suborbital space flight from the Texas Launch Site."

Despite SpaceX's substantial evolution of its Boca Chica site, the FAA found few major deviations, at least from an impact standpoint — so it determined a new (and very arduous) supplemental EIS process was not required. If anything, the documents suggest SpaceX's new Starship development would decrease the company's disruption in the area, including noise levels, wildlife effects, and wetland impacts.

"The modifications remain entirely within the property boundary and project area described and analyzed in the 2014 EIS," the FAA said.

SpaceX built its first launch pad within about 1.5 miles, or 2.4 kilometers, of a nearby community called Boca Chica Village. Despite this, and the company's inadvertent brush fire coming within a few thousand feet of the hamlet, the FAA determined "there were no public safety concerns" due to a "pre-established safety zone."

"All mitigation efforts due to the brush fire were controlled by US Fish and Wildlife Fire Management and the Brownsville Fire Department," a SpaceX representative told Business Insider. "The determination that this fire presented no risk to public safety was made by those agencies."

Though the FAA can request public feedback to incorporate into its written reevaluations, a representative for the regulator told Business Insider the document "is final" and "will not have any comment period."

The documents also outline a 3-phase Starship development program

A "Phase 1" construction layout for Starship. (The underground water tank was swapped for three above-ground tanks.) FAA/SpaceX

The main FAA document, which was finalized May 21, contains figures on the amounts of methane, oxygen, water, helium, and other "commodities" SpaceX thinks it needs for Starship testing in Texas. (The company has since built a second Starship development site in Cocoa, Florida.)

The document also lays out a three-phase test program, which it says "would last around 2 to 3 years":

A "Phase 2" layout for Starship's launch site from the Federal Aviation Administration's written reevaluation. FAA/SpaceX

SpaceX's representative said the company had officially ended Phase 1 and was in the midst of Phase 2.

Phase 1 centered on SpaceX's first Starship prototype, called Starhopper. Sections of the shiny steel vehicle were first spotted in social-media photos posted from Boca Chica in late 2018.

The vehicle was mostly completed in February, though its nose cone was quickly blown off by powerful Texas winds. SpaceX decided the nosecone wasn't needed and launched Starhopper as a stubby version of its former, rocket-shaped self. The vehicle flew on short tethered flights in April, a roughly 6o-foot, or 20 meter, "hop" in July, and a flight in August that soared the vehicle to about 490 feet, or 150 meters — a key step described in Phase 2.

Read more: The FAA made SpaceX boost its accident insurance 33-fold, to $100 million, before Starhopper's last launch. Here's why.

During that latest and final flight in August, Starhopper also translated across its launch site and landed on a new concrete slab that matches the layout of the Phase 2 Pad.

Construction of the Starship Mk1 prototype in Boca Chica in April.Dave Mosher/Business InsiderThe FAA document says Phase 3 — SpaceX's most ambitious near-term goal in Texas — had not yet begun, adding that its exact details would depend on how the company's first two phases went.

"SpaceX would be required to submit data and information to the FAA so the FAA can conduct another environmental review before issuing any new or modified licenses or permits to conduct these operations," the FAA wrote of Phase 3.

It's unclear whether the rough Phase 3 plan in the FAA document is still valid. SpaceX is known for rapid shifts in development, and when asked about the phase, the company said only that it was "working directly with FAA to maintain environmental compliance as our testing plans develop."

Phase 3, however, is likely now more ambitious. Based on tweets from Musk, it may entail launching a new, roughly 180-foot prototype known as Starship Mark 1 (Mk1) a dozen miles high and beyond this fall.

"Aiming for 20km flight in Oct & orbit attempt shortly thereafter," Musk tweeted on August 28.

Musk added that he would provide an update on the overall Starship development program on September 28. Previously, he said he would deliver that presentation from Boca Chica, Texas — possibly to do so with a fitting backdrop.

"Starship Mk 1 will be fully assembled by that time," he said.

This story has been updated.

As 99designs turns 10, CEO Patrick Llewellyn plans for an Australian IPO

Harry's set off the wave of direct-to-consumer brands competing against consumer-packaged-goods giants like Unilever and Procter & Gamble. Now it's staffing up to shake up another industry.

The shaving brand recently posted a handful of jobs for a new DTC brand that it is incubating as part of Harry's Labs, the innovation group in Harry's tasked with identifying other categories to disrupt.

According to three job postings on Harry's website, the company is hiring for a new start-up called "NewCo."

"Over the past year, Harry's has identified and vetted an exciting opportunity to create a new brand and business in an underserved CPG (consumer packaged goods) category," read the job postings. "They are now gearing up to launch and looking to hire a team to build and run the business, revolutionize another category and improve the experience of millions of people."

Harry's is advertising three roles for the new DTC brand:

The job postings suggest that Harry's is looking for experienced applicants. The director of growth marketing and creative director positions will report directly to the CEO, for example. The director of growth marketing position requires seven or more years of e-commerce experience, and the creative director role needs at least 10 years of experience at agencies or in-house teams, according to the postings.

The business operations and strategy manager should ideally have four to six years of experience and work on the startup's product launches, commercial strategy and with external partners like vendors and suppliers, according to the postings.

Harry's wouldn't comment on the new team or what kind of product is being planned beyond confirming that the roles would be part of Harry's Labs.

In an interview with Business Insider earlier this year, founder and Harry's Labs CEO Jeff Raider said that Harry's was looking to launch one or two new DTC brands this year. Raider said that he looks for categories with high customer dissatisfaction and organizes focus groups to talk with consumers about brands.

For example, Harry's Labs' first brand, Flamingo, a shaving line for women, was based on the idea that women didn't see themselves portrayed in existing brands.

Read more: The cofounder of Warby Parker and Harry's reveals how he decides which industry to disrupt next

"They were portraying women like goddesses," he said. "The products themselves were more expensive than men's products. A quote that really stuck with me was, 'Women would abstain from sex for three months if they could remove all their body hair.'"

Nik Sharma, a DTC consultant that has worked with brands including Hint and Cha Cha Matcha, said that he's heard about recruiters from Harry's VC arm Harry's Ventures reaching out to people for roles at a new DTC company.

Based on how Harry's has already created personal care items for men and women, he said he suspected that the new startup would focus on similar products such as a skin care product or perfume.

He said Harry's also already has many of the resources needed to launch a DTC brand, including negotiated manufacturing and shipping rates and first-party data on its customers. For example, Harry's could slip samples of the new startup into subscribers' boxes or poll them about what other related products they're interested in.

DTC brands like Iris Nova are experimenting with a similar model to Harry's. The beverage brand is known for its Dirty Lemon drinks but is spending $100 million over the next three to five years to build out a portfolio by creating and investing in other beverages.

"It would make perfect sense to build a brand around a consumer persona and almost double-down on the lifetime value of the consumer that they currently have," Sharma said. "They have the proof in the pudding."

A dark video is hardly enjoyable, but it's often hard to tell in the moment that the footage you're recording is too dimly lit to be easily viewed.

Brightening an iPhone video can make it easier to see the action on screen and will make the video more appealing if you upload it to a social media site or webpage.

Unfortunately, the iPhone's built-in camera app does not allow you to brighten videos after you have created them, so you should always try to brighten a video before you start recording.

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How to brighten an iPhone video before or while recording

1. Open the camera app and swipe left to toggle to video.

2. Tap on the screen so that a box with a sun-shaped icon appears.

Tap your iPhone screen and slide your finger up to brighten the video. Steven John/Business Insider

3. Hold your finger on the iPhone screen and slide it upward to brighten the scene before you start recording. You can also do this while you are recording the video at any time.

How to brighten an iPhone video after recording

The free features of the app InShot allow you to brighten an iPhone video after recording, not to mention adding filters, text, cropping, and many other editorial features.

1. Open the InShot app and tap the icon for "VIDEO," then tap "New."

Create a new video on InShot. Steven John/Business Insider

2. Select the video (or videos if you are merging files) you wish to brighten from your iPhone's library.

3. Tap the green circle with the check mark.

4. On the next screen, tap the word "FILTER."

You can brighten the video with filters. Steven John/Business Insider

5. Tap the "Adjust" tab, then using the "LIGHTNESS" effect, move the slider as far to the right as you want to brighten the video.

You can also use the Adjust tab to manually brighten your video. Steven John/Business Insider

You can also play around with other effects, like "WARMTH" and "SATURATION," as increasing these will make some videos appear brighter.

Elon Musk's attempt to poke fun at Porsche's new Tesla-rivaling Taycan was met with some comedic backlash on Thursday.

"Um Porsche, this word Turbo does not mean what you think it does," he tweeted, presumably referencing the fact that it's impossible to turbocharge an electric car. Traditionally, turbo refers to "turbocharging" a car's engine by forcing more air into the engine, allowing it to burn more fuel and therefore making it more powerful.

Musk, of course, has his own history with loose definitions of terms, and Twitter was quick to remind him of that. Within minutes, other users were reminding Musk of the "funding secured" tweets that landed Tesla in hot water with federal regulators last year.

Then there are the other names of Tesla products that don't exactly fit the dictionary definition.

Olivia Oran: NSO Group is known for being super secretive and closed off to journalists. What first piqued your interest about reporting on the company?

Becky Peterson: My editors first asked me to look into NSO Group around the time of the Jeff Bezos sexting scandal, when his personal security consultant accused Saudi Arabia of hacking Bezos's phone. NSO Group had been linked to Saudi Arabia through earlier reporting on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and there were a lot of questions about whether the two situations were linked.

I had just gotten back from a work trip to Tel Aviv, and had been thinking a lot about the startup environment in Israel. I actually spent a day in Herzliya, a town north of Tel Aviv where a lot of the tech companies, including NSO Group, are based. It had a lot in common with Palo Alto. There was even a Columbia store, where you could buy a puffy vest, on the bottom level of one of the more bustling high rises.

So I started asking people in the space what they knew about NSO Group and its competitors, and pretty soon it was clear that the story was much bigger than just one rogue company selling spyware.

Oran: How did you get interested in reporting on cybersecurity?

Peterson: My first role at Business Insider was covering enterprise technology out of our San Francisco bureau. It was 2017, and a lot of startups in cybersecurity were raising funding. So a lot of my early reporting was just about following the money.

But I started thinking about cybersecurity and digital privacy before that. In both my undergrad and master's programs, I spent a lot of time thinking about how our online lives could be used against us by the government, corporations or just other people online. When you're a journalist, you learn pretty quickly how easy it is to find out details of people's lives from their public social media trails. Just imagine what someone with technical expertise could find out.

Oran: Tell me about your reporting process. How long did this story take to come together? Without getting too specific, who are the types of people that you relied on as sources?

Peterson: I've been working on this story for around four months. I was still living in the Bay Area at the time, and my editor called me to talk about the story while I was in the waiting room at the eye doctor. I thought I had a contact lens stuck in my eye.

When I first started reporting, it wasn't clear what I was looking for. I had a sense that Silicon Valley VC firms might be investing in these companies, and that they weren't being upfront about their participation. That turned out to be partially true. I spoke to a number of venture capitalists who said in no uncertain terms that they would never invest in an offensive cybersecurity company.

But they also knew that the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz had. I also reached out to a number of people who were offensive cyber experts themselves, or who had worked with NSO Group at one time or another. For a story like this, most people don't email you back. But the ones that do always have something compelling to share.

Oran: What was the hardest part of reporting out this story?

Peterson: Confirming the details about the startups in the space was a bit of a challenge. Everyone knows about one another's work but no one wanted to throw their tech friends under the bus by sharing information that wasn't public. In a few cases, after sharing a short list of companies I was trying to track down, sources would tell me that there were more I hadn't uncovered, but wouldn't tell me what they were! It's possible there are a few more startups that didn't make it into the story.