The one place IRL still matters: luxury shopping

Tech Insider
Store clerk handing over a luxury golden shopping bag to a shopper
E-commerce has eaten everything ... except ultra-luxe.

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Duolingo is mean, whiny, and annoying. Gen Z loves it.

Tech Insider
Illustration of the Duolino bird with hand tattoos.

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Big Tech's phony Trumpism

Tech Insider : Politics
Collage featuring a large photo of Donald Trump towering over a smaller photo of Marc Andreessen

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Insider Today: A historic outage

Tech Insider : Economy
People wait for their flights at LaGuardia Airport after a global outage.

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Why Taylor Swift keeps blasting fans with never-ending albums

Tech Insider
Two record players with drastically different sized vinyls
"It's a very momentum-driven market," said Ben Klein, a music marketing executive. "You want to really capitalize on that by putting out as much product as possible."

Tyler Le/BI

Online prescription providers are more interested in your hairline than your health

Tech Insider
Photo collage a man getting sucked in to a computer.

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America is on the brink of an unemployment fiasco

Tech Insider : Economy
Photo illustration of a desk on a cliff's ledge.
Unless the Federal Reserve starts to cut interest rates, the recent increase in unemployment is going to get worse.

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Prices keep changing from day to day, and it's driving Americans nuts

Tech Insider : Economy
Retail sign amidst a pile of clothes, displaying 'Special Prices' with a slot machine effect showing changing prices
Inflation and dynamic pricing are making it so that Americans don't know what anything costs anymore — and it's driving a growing sense of fatigue.

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The era of cookie-cutter homes is over

Tech Insider
A bird looking at a strange birdhouse
In a hot housing market, the social media account 'Zillow Gone Wild' has made unique homes easier to find.

Tyler Le/BI

The scary new ways you're about to get overcharged for everything

Tech Insider : Economy
A digital mouse/hook pulling a price tag out of someone's pocket
Personalized pricing not only bakes in bias and can drive inflation but creates a world where you never know when your apps are ripping you off.

Tyler Le/BI

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