The looming crisis that's going to crush homeowners from coast to coast

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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As the risk of wildfires and storms grows, owning a home is getting riskier — and it's showing up in the insurance market.

Tyler Le/Insider

Cinda Larimer was delivering newspapers on a cool November morning in Paradise, California, when she noticed something softly float down from the sky: ash.

From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

Tech Insider : Economy
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More people are wanting to cut back on their smartphone use. But we've made it nearly impossible to leave our phones behind.

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/Insider

From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything you want to do now requires an infuriating app

AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes

Tech Insider : Economy
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The AI revolution is about the crash into the global economy and upend millions of jobs.

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A tidal wave is about to crash into the global economy. 

AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare

Tech Insider : Economy
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AI bots and AI-generated content are flooding the internet with spam, scams, and misinformation. And it's making it a nightmare to be online.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

The death of hobbies

Tech Insider : Economy
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Hobbies have been killed off and milked for cash — but in the rush to turn a passion into a side hustle, the fire a person has for that activity can be snuffed out.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

How side hustles turned everyone's leisure activities into work

The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Gen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

Every city in America looks exactly the same now

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

How every American city became exactly the same

Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

Tech Insider : Politics
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Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

Twitter, Threads, Tyler Le/Insider

Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

Tech Insider : Economy
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Brand-centric films like Barbie have a dark side: They are a symptom of the precarity of today's job market.

Barbie/Mattel, Mario/Amazon, Tyler Le/Insider

It's official: Gen Z is the Hustle Generation

Tech Insider : Economy
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Gen Z doesn't believe in the promise of the 9-5 corporate job — so they are creating new side hustles and forging their own career paths.

Tyler Le/Insider

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