A new email tool proves the AI revolution has already arrived

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I get more emails than I can handle. Every day, I watch as the unread messages in my inbox pile up despite my best efforts. It's not because I spend too much time responding to the emails that matter — I spend too much time reading the ones that don't. 

Science has found a simple way to free us from our addiction to social media

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Most of us are helplessly addicted to our phones. I tried a new app that can help you reclaim your time.

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A simple trick can cure your addiction to social media

Forget the 'death of downtowns' — we're about to experience the Big City Renaissance

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City downtowns aren't doomed — the rise of remote work is about to spark the Big City Renaissance.

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America's great cities are in a precarious spot.

Self-centered boomers destroyed the economy — and now millennials and Gen Z are paying the price

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Boomers have created a bottleneck of workers and housing, crippling the economy for millennials and Gen Z.

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Their greed destroyed the economy — and now millennials and Gen Z are paying the price

Florida's climate exodus has already begun — and it's only going to get worse

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Climate Crisis
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Climate change is making disasters like hurricanes more devastating and frequent, and Floridians are already being forced to flee.

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The state's climate exodus has already begun

Artificial intelligence's dirty secret

Tech Insider : Economy
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Behind the AI chatbots and delivery robots are human workers, hidden from sight, keeping everything running.

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Meet the hidden human workforce behind the boom in artificial intelligence

I've been a Wall Street economist for 15 years. The deluge of crappy analysis being spouted by so-called 'experts' has never been worse.

Tech Insider : Economy
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A new ecosystem of alarmist analysts is using low-quality data to push a narrative of stock market doom and recession gloom.

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If an 'expert' is warning you that the market is about to crash, check their math

Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs

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Tech CEOs shouldn't be making $280 million a year or even $1 a year — they should be fired for poorly managing some of the largest companies in the world.

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Now laid-off employees are paying the price

Instagram got popular by favoring big brands over cool content — which is why it's now losing to TikTok

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Instagram is a victim of its own success. The reason it became popular is the reason it can't beat TikTok.

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Instagram is becoming as uncool as Facebook — and it has only itself to blame

China's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

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China will lose half its population by the end of the century. The population decline is a warning for the US and Europe.

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The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

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