The next lucrative side hustle: selling electricity to your neighbors

Tech Insider : Economy
Solar power turning into cash flow.
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.

Nolan Pelletier for Business Insider

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.

Liam Eisenberg for Insider

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
Illustration of a plane tray table with spilled food.
Air turbulence is on the rise. And it's going to make flights a whole lot bumpier.

Ben Hickey for Business Insider

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

Tech Insider : Economy
Illustration of scientists looking at someone working on a screen

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.

Jon Krause for Insider

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.

Min Heo for Insider

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.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

'It became me': Studies show that revolutionary new brain chips may bend your mind in strange and troubling ways

Tech Insider
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Research has found that brain chips can warp your sense of self.

Arif Qazi / Insider

Studies show that Elon Musk's new tech can bend your mind in strange and troubling ways

The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty

Tech Insider : Economy
Two watchful eyes over an employee.
Return-to-office mandates indicate a failure of imagination on the part of management and a refusal to do the work necessary to create a positive company culture.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

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