Gen Z students are inventing their own college degrees, from Chaos Studies to Human-Computer Interaction

Tech Insider : Economy
A blueprint drawing of a college degree
Customized majors are on the rise as Gen Z students worried about the future of the job market turn to build-your-own degree programs.

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Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering

Tech Insider : Economy
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People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.

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A night inside a strip club near Ukraine’s front lines

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Woman standing in front of ruins in Ukraine.
Valeriya Zavadskaya, 24, co-owns Flash Dancers with her mother. "Our goal is to be a switch from what is happening," she says.

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wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.

Tech Insider : Economy
An illustration of a pool with floaties in the shape of a frowning face

A pool could have been evidence that my life hadn't amounted to nothing. But after we Zelle-ed the deposit to our contractor, things started to go very wrong.

All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.

Meet the families who are ditching America to travel abroad as digital nomads

Tech Insider : Economy, Travel
A mouse clicks around a spinning globe, opening web windows that portray a family of four smiling.
Remote work has lead to a boom in people traveling the world — and now people are taking their kids with them.

Arantza Pena Popo

The job Americans would most like to see replaced by robots

Tech Insider : Sports
Robo-umps
Robo-ump has been sold as a futuristic solution to an age-old problem: With a computer-powered strike zone, an afternoon at the park will never again be ruined by human error.

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Paid sabbaticals can make the difference in retaining top talent. Here's proof.

Tech Insider : Economy
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Crissie Hoskins' company paid her to take two months off work. It made her more passionate about her job.

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The distressing downside of fitness trackers

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A women looks overwhelmed as she tries to concentrate on all the fitness metrics buzzing and moving all around her.
Fitness trackers have taken over. But is the deluge of fitness data making Americans healthier?

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They started out as pioneering hip-hop moguls. They wound up running a drug empire.

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Mario Rosemond (center top) and his brother Jimmy (second from left) clawed their way from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the music industry.

The paradox of the American West: plenty of open land, but nowhere to build new homes

Tech Insider : Economy
A conveyer belt full of houses crashes into a mountain in the West.
The cost of housing in Western states is soaring. But the simple solution — build more houses — is proving difficult.

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Western states have plenty of wide open land. So why can't they build more homes?

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