The truth behind America's cruise obsession: 'They don't want to see anything that's real'

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy
Collage of images highlighting Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas cruise ship alongside a standard cruise ship, with passengers engaging in various cruise life activities such as enjoying drinks, sightseeing, and leisurely walks along the beach
The Icon of the Seas sets sail on January 27. But what is it an icon of?

Royal Caribbean International; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

AI deepfakes threaten to wreak havoc with the world's year of elections

Tech Insider
A glitching voting booth

iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

United's CEO seemed to subtly threaten a move away from Boeing, saying the Max 9 grounding is 'the straw that broke the camel's back'

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Scott Kirby
Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines.

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China's rapidly dwindling future will shape the world for decades to come

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Animated GIF depicting a hand shrinking a map of China with a Chinese flag

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

2024 is the year of the incredible shrinking China.

Don't worry — the machines won't be as smart as humans for a long time, because they've still got a lot to learn

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Photo of a man in the center with Ai/Tech designs

Jonathan Knowles/Getty, StudioM1/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

Behind the divorce at Fishwife, the internet's favorite tinned fish brand

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Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb
Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb, co-founders of Fishwife.

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Move over, millennials: Gen Zers are coming for boomers' houses

Tech Insider : Economy
Gen Zer taking a photo of a house featuring a 'Sold' real estate sign in the foreground. On the side, an older couple (previous owners) stands, gazing at the property and holding a suitcase.
No generation has shaped the modern housing market more than baby boomers. Now their reign is coming to an end, and Gen Z is coming for the crown.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

Who killed Cedar the goat?

Tech Insider : Politics
A goat in between a fork and knife
A 9-year-old girl tried to save her goat from the slaughterhouse. What happened next might change the way you think about meat.

iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI

Cedar the goat was sold at auction, destined for the dinner table. But his owner, a 9-year-old girl, loved him too much for that. She decided, instead, to save him.

2 cicada broods are popping up together for the first time in 221 years — and they'll meet in Illinois

Tech Insider
Photo collage of Cicadas

Cicada Safari Press, Tyler Le/BI

The big dumb lie that could wreck the American economy

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Photo collage featuring Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, the Capitol building, red dots with the Eye of Providence Double Exposure, and a downward-trending line
Conspiracy theorists are arguing that the Federal Reserve is trying to boost Biden's reelection chances. That's bad news for the US economy.

Getty Images; Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

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