Giant food companies are quietly ruining your favorite snacks — and hoping you don't notice

Tech Insider : Economy
A large coin overshadowing a nutritional label.
As costs go up, companies are forced to either raise prices or cut costs on your favorite food items by skimping on ingredients.

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Gen Z is bringing a whole new vibe to the workplace: anxiety

Tech Insider : Economy
Illustration of a woman stressed at an office.
Gen Z workers entered the workplace at an unprecedented time — and for many, it's causing a lot of anxiety.

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The next lucrative side hustle: selling electricity to your neighbors

Tech Insider : Economy
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Instead of relying on monolithic utilities to keep the lights on, the rising popularity of solar panels and battery storage could allow average Americans to sell electricity to their neighbors.

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After 3 years of pain, America has finally achieved economic nirvana

Tech Insider : Economy
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The US economy is about to make a soft landing — a situation in which inflation cools without causing a recession or sudden spike in unemployment.

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Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it.

Tech Insider : Economy
A keychain containing a house, sad face and covid virus.
The dream of owning a home with a yard in the suburbs is turning out to be disappointing.

Chelsea Jia Feng/BI

Be warned: Flights are getting bumpier

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel
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Air turbulence is on the rise. And it's going to make flights a whole lot bumpier.

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The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace

Tech Insider : Economy
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Anna Kim for BI

Can a machine tell that you're mad just by looking at your face? Do your emails give away how stressed you are? Could a computer understand your emotions better than you?

RIP Goldman Sachs

Tech Insider : Economy
Tombstone with Goldman Sach's logo with a rose in front.

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A modern etiquette guide for group chats

Tech Insider
A bunch of people talk into a group chat.
The group chat has become the fulcrum of civilization and its discontents. In order to survive and thrive as humans, it's time for us to agree on group-chat etiquette.

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The best evidence yet that banning Airbnbs will make rent go down

Tech Insider : Economy
The Airbnb logo transforms into simple line drawing of a house with two windows and a front door
A new study found that an Airbnb ban in Irvine, California lead to rent price decreases.

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